I wasn't sure until I saw the mockups and then it all click/clacked in my brain. If you watch movies of a Certain Vintage that contain flip phones, or actually owned one (I am old and so I did - a silvery petite Cingular Wireless model with a mirror so I could check for spinach in the teeth) you will remember the tactile finality of snapping a flip phone shut to end a call. Elegant. Unambiguous. Punctuation for the end of a conversation about the new Shinedown album! I miss that. Nowadays, to end a call you sort of lower the phone, look at the screen, then jab your wet noodle of a finger at a rectangle of impenetrable glass, hoping to bullseye the virtual "End Call" button, all while wondering if everything discussed could have been a text. Not elegant. Not definitive. NOT empowering.
Bring back the clack! I want to be walking briskly across Broad Street in Manhattan with my iPhone Ultra, late for something, yelling "THEN I CAN'T HELP YOU" into my Ultra and with a single, almost imperceptible motion of my fingers, hanging up with a confident and final SNAP, the two phone halves coming together like a satisfying nano collision of two worlds. I can then stride perturbed, but confidently, up into my building, to my corner office, take a sip of coffee, and gaze out at the city skyline through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Decisions to be made. Heads to roll. Lives to ruin.
Bring back the clack! I want to be walking briskly across Broad Street in Manhattan with my iPhone Ultra, late for something, yelling "THEN I CAN'T HELP YOU" into my Ultra and with a single, almost imperceptible motion of my fingers, hanging up with a confident and final SNAP, the two phone halves coming together like a satisfying nano collision of two worlds. I can then stride perturbed, but confidently, up into my building, to my corner office, take a sip of coffee, and gaze out at the city skyline through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Decisions to be made. Heads to roll. Lives to ruin.
