Company designing cell phone especially geared toward teens (Seattle Times)

[Posted January 21, 2004 by corbet]

This Seattle Times article describes another amusing Linux-powered gadget. "Dan Shapiro, the company's lead program manager, who during his time at Microsoft worked on Windows XP and its still-developing successor, code-named Longhorn, said every feature was developed to appeal to teens. The phone, which at its heart is a computer running on the Linux operating system, resembles a kidney bean because that shape allowed the teens to more readily grip the phone with four fingers, while text messaging with their thumb."

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