Lunamania

My Dad works for a Japanese broadband/cellphone company. It may seem strange that a Japanese company is looking to clunky US cellphones for design inspiration, but this weekend he was charged with reviewing and procuring phones that met some criteria that seemed suspicously like, "whatever we think is kind of neat." Excellent.

For a gear weenie like me, this was a dream come true. We hit up every cell phone carrier in the mall--Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile. After much exploration and several sophisticated product review dicsussions that went something like:
Dad: "This Motorola Q is so THIN!"
Luna: "But it uses windoze mobile so it's start up time is about 5 and a half years."
Dad: "It's so thin! Only 113mm!"

Dad: "The Treo...I guess Americans are OK with big phones...the Motorola Q is so THIN!"
Luna: "I wish they could merge the design of the Motorola Q with the functionality of the Treo 700p..."

Five hours later we left with a Treo 700p, a Motorola Slvr (the candybar version of the Razr), and the very thin Motorola Q. We spent the rest of the evening playing, I mean reviewing, phones. My vote goes to the Treo.