The Cyrcle phone
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##Company designs circular phone for women - because they struggle with rectangles
The makers seem to be serious about launching this specialist "feminine-forward" phone, despite its completely tone-deaf promotional material. For instance, they claim to be custom-building for women, because current phones make women look "unattractive", describing it as, "moms at a volleyball practice pecking like chickens into their mobile phones." The Cyrcle is pegged as a more discreet and lady-like way of communicating.
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Sounds like an easy way to make money if they're public - bet they fail!
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Also: https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/in-other-news-today/50872/393
Hmm. I did a search for
cyrcle
and turned up nothing...
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I just happened to read that other topic before looking at things in the new category...
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women, whose smaller pockets often can't accommodate large phablets
Some crafty women augment their admittedly tiny or non-existent pockets with these things called "purses".
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Hey, someone's already done that like a decade ago!
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The makers seem to be serious about launching this specialist "feminine-forward" phone, despite its completely tone-deaf promotional material. For instance, they claim to be custom-building for women, because current phones make women look "unattractive", describing it as, "moms at a volleyball practice pecking like chickens into their mobile phones." The Cyrcle is pegged as a more discreet and lady-like way of communicating.
If they want a more feminine phone, they could always put it in this phone case:
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And just so we don't leave any other feminine types out:
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Points for experimenting with a form factor that isn't "rectangle with round corners".
I think the name Dtoor standing for "designing the opposite of rectangle" is clever.And I'm all for flip-phones. I think we need more of those.
So props to them for trying, at least.But I think it will be hard to escape the almighty rectangle. It's arguably the natural form for form layouts.
The Runcible seemed interesting too.
[quote=C|Net]
Another cool feature has you holding up the Runcible to take a picture with the rear camera. Instead of pinching the screen to zoom in and out, you twist the Runcible like a camera lens.
[/quote]Cool. Sounds practical too.
Photos will also take on circular form, another bold move given that most camera sensors are rectangular or square.
Ah yes, much more humanizing.
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Am I the only one who is weirded out by the fact that while the phone is circular, the app-icons are still rectangular?
Filed Under: "I don't struggle with the phone anymore but the apps... way too rectangular" - a woman
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Company designs circular phone for women - because they struggle with rectangles
That explains why Jeff favours circular avatars!
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And that's an actual photo of the phone? That thing is horrendous. WTF is with that cardboard circle around the (ridiculously tiny) screen?
I can't find a single redeeming quality in that thing.
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I can't find a single redeeming quality in that thing.
But, but, but...
It's non-rectangular!
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Great, we bought a feminine conference phone here:
I feel that my masculinity is threatened now!
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At least the display is rectangular
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they struggle with rectangles
Yep. A dildo-shaped phone would be [url=http://www.barstoolsports.com/dont-use/chick-steals-dudes-cell-phone-on-the-streets-of-nyc-hides-it-in-her-vagina/]much more convenient[/url].
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CALL ME NOW
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Am I the only one who is weirded out by the fact that while the phone is circular, the app-icons are still rectangular?
Yeah, that struck me too. It looked like they took a regular phone and stuffed it in a round case, then raised price tag three times in the name of ideology.
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And then they rounded it.
Not that it matters at that point
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Interesting, the American cover had the cube be blue!
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That's nothing. Siemens did exactly the same thing that's in the OP, and a bunch of other bizzare models to go with it:
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Wow, that looks like it was designed by engineers who usually build nuclear power plants. Terrible.
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My ex had Xelibri 2 and it actually was quite cool.
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Founder Christina Cyr, who has worked on nuclear submarines, AIDS research in Los Angeles, and as a biochemist in Japan as well as working for NEC and Microsoft, went from complaining about her phone to attending maker spaces to begin work on a device that would do the things she wanted -- and not do the things she didn't want.
Uh-huh. Pity that @Fox is gay, because if she also does Cherokee-style cooking this would be a match made in heaven.
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It looked like they took a regular phone and stuffed it in a round case, then raised price tag three times in the name of ideology.
That's a good thing. I think I need to open a feminist store, where it would sell the same shit as everywhere but branded with "Feminist something", "Diversity something", and with a hefty price premium. Like they do with audiophile and "organic" stuff.It would be a tremendous success in the US, but a bit difficult to operate in Poland. In Poland I would rather sell anti-gay and anti-communist amulets.
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In Poland I would rather sell anti-gay and anti-communist amulets.
You could go for extra fun and sell anti-gay gold lamé unitards.
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with a hefty price premium. Like they do with audiophile and "organic" stuff.
No shit, man. Round behind the block of flats I lived in in Oxford, there was one of those audiophile shops, with the windows tastefully decorated with valve amps (with exposed valve, just so everyone knows it's a valve amp), glass-platter turntables, and £1500 speaker stands.(1)(1) £1500 per stand, of course. Did you think I meant per pair?
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(1) £1500 per stand, of course. Did you think I meant per pair?
No, per speaker. I guess I'm cheap. I don't even use Monster cables!
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Uh-huh. Pity that @Fox is gay, because if she also does Cherokee-style cooking this would be a match made in heaven.
He should take one for the team and help breed the next generation of SJWs.
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Server cootie-induced double post redacted.
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He should take one for the team and help breed the next generation of SJWs.
I'm quite certain humanity is better off without @Fox participating in the gene pool.
Yay, cooties. It took something like 20 – 30 seconds for that to turn into a mention.
Filed under: 504 Ok — Edit: But it posted anyway. , Discourse?
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I'm quite certain humanity is better off without @Fox participating in the gene pool.
So am I, I just posted that for .
Also, I replied to your first post, not the dupe--your non-ninja edit appeared just after I hit Reply.
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In Poland I would rather sell anti-gay and anti-communist amulets.
That niche is already filled.
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He should take one for the team and help breed the next generation of SJWs.
No he shouldn't.
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I'm quite certain humanity is better off without @Fox participating in the gene pool.
I'm not. And, as @aliceif recently pointed out, PIV is not necessarily necessary for procreation.
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I'm quite certain humanity is better off without
@Fox</del@ScholRLEA participating in the gene pool.FTFY. Fortunately, my brother doesn't seem to share my genetic flaws, despite our resemblance, so my nieces should be fine.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said:
(1) £1500 per stand, of course. Did you think I meant per pair?
No, per speaker. I guess I'm cheap. I don't even use Monster cables!
Fair dues, I guess I was a little ambiguous - I was never referring to the speakers, just the stands, but these particular ones were £1500 for one stand on which you could put one speaker, purchased separately for its own ludicrous price.