But if you're otherwise sold on cordless, these phones offer spectacular sound quality and convenience.
"Where in 2005 you might have had one or two phones that either were the RAZR or looked like it, in 2006 we now have a plethora of super-thin clamshell phones, including phones with spectacular feature sets".
It's especially unimpressive compared with HTC's other new phone, the spectacular HTC One, which I have reviewed online on my blog, Pogue's Posts.
The not-so-great thing is that when you get a spectacular shot, with most phone cameras, the image is small or of such low quality that you can't enlarge it into a frame-worthy print.
Mr Gladwell showed how its principles could be widely applied, to the spectacular explosion in mobile phone usage, for instance, and the fall in New York's crime rate in the early 1990s.The "tipping point", in Mr Gladwell's view, is the moment when an unfamiliar idea, fashion, or form of behaviour, crosses some imperceptible threshold and suddenly spreads with the speed of a bush fire.
It's games were simply spectacular for a mobile phone, but the device itself was bulky, had a pretty small screen, and looked more like a Choco Taco than either a phone or gaming handheld.
But the outlook for attracting investors would appear to be considerably gloomier now that the spectacular bankruptcy of the Iridium phone system, problems in several other satellite ventures and the relentless advances of land-based competitors have confirmed Wall Street's worst fears about how tough it is to build a successful satellite business.
Clearly, phones ain't what they used to be.This spectacular outward transformation of the mobile phone is being reflected by an internal transformation of the industry that makes what have now become the most ubiquitous digital devices on the planet.
A dollar does buy you a lot of fun with this one, even if it's not the most spectacular way to show off your phone's screen.
Free's launch of a cheap mobile-phone service last year had a spectacular impact on the French market, notes François Godard of Enders Analysis, a research firm.
