史上5款最爛的手機設計

Four short weeks since it crashed Apple and AT&T's servers, the iPhone 4 has broken records, surpassed analyst expectations and invoked the kind of ire and controversy usually reserved for political elections. Just as quickly, Apple's once-sterling reputation for cutting-edge design became a potential liability.
But as critics and users fussed over "antennagate," beating their chests over fickle steel-band antennae, many of us were quick to forget that where cell phone flaws are concerned, there are, quite frankly, worse things out there. Way worse, in fact. Over the years, manufacturers have released phones so irrefutably flawed, so haphazardly designed, that Apple's latest smart phone entry appears downright ideal.

雖然iPhone4的天線問題已經被批得體無完膚，但下文的這5款手機仍然驗證了一個道理：好的手機設計是不可多得的。

短短4周，蘋果和AT&T'的服務器就被瘋狂的蘋果粉絲弄癱瘓了，iPhone的熱銷大大超出分析家們的預料，也引起了爭議。很快，蘋果的聲譽就因天線問題而垂直下降。

但當批評人士和使用者們對“天線門”嘮嘮叨叨，捶胸頓足的沒完時，我們其實忘記了對於手機設計，到底應該關注那些地方。坦率地說，還有更糟的呢。多年來，製造商已經發布了很多有致命缺陷、隨意設計的手機。蘋果最新的這款智能手機設計顯得過於理想化了。

Here are five of the most egregious offenders.

下面是最爛的5快款手機設計。

Nokia N-Gage

諾基亞 N-Gage

In 2003, Nokia (NOKBF) launched the N-Gage, a hybrid device that tried to bridge the gap between mobile entertainment and communication by being both pocket-sized gaming device and cell phone. Unfortunately for Nokia, the N-Gage wasn't particularly good at being either. Though it featured graphics comparable to Nintendo's successful Game Boy Advance, it was hampered by high pricing, a poor selection of games at launch and a 20-plus button layout that proved confusing and uncomfortable for gaming. As for cell usage, some outlets -- Fortune, included -- compared making phone calls on it to holding a taco to your ear.

2003年，諾基亞推出的N - Gage。這款多功能手機將普通通話手機和掌上游戲機結合在一起。雖然它的遊戲功能相當接近任天堂的Game Boy，但價格高昂，支持遊戲有限和令人迷茫的20個額外按鈕使得銷售受阻。至於通話方面，把手機放在耳邊就像拿着一塊玉米卷一樣。

Samsung Bang & Olufsen Serenata

三星 Bang & Olufsen Serenata

This lovechild of Samsung and Bang & Olufsen sold for $2,000 in 2007 and sported a slick-looking design that defied logic. The Serenata chucked the conventional QWERTY keyboard, software keypad, and numerical key concepts entirely in lieu of an iPod-like wheel you rotated to dial numbers, text message, and navigate the user interface, effectively kicking users back to the days of the rotary dial.

三星和Bang＆Olufsen推出的這款手機在2007年售價是2000美元，外表看起來絢麗多姿，其實是相當的缺乏邏輯性設計。Serenata放棄了傳統的按鍵，取而代之的是類似iPod的滑鍵。你必須用滑鍵來撥打號碼，寫短信，返回主界面，這“成功”地讓用戶回到了旋轉撥號式電話的時代。

Also contrary to conventional design, the wheel was positioned above a small 2.24-inch LCD, so inevitably, users' hands covered the screen and partially obstructed view while they 'wheeled' around. And to add insult to injury, the Serenata completely lacked a camera. So while audio fidelity via the integrated speaker may have been top-notch – we'd expect nothing less from the Danish audio company -- there was very little else to recommend the Serenata.

更多的人不滿滑鍵竟然位於2.24英寸的LCD上面，當用手滑動滑鍵時，不可避免地要擋住屏幕。又沒有內置攝像頭。所以當我們享受它的音質的時就別奢望丹麥的影音設備商爲我們提供更多了。

Vertu Signature Cobra

Vertu 眼鏡蛇手機

By far the priciest of the bunch is also unequivocally the most outrageous. In 2006, British luxury handset maker Vertu and French jewelry, watch and perfume-maker Boucheron puts their heads together and emerged with the Signature Cobra, a 190-gram phone whose most prominent (read: garish) feature was a bejeweled cobra -- two diamonds, two emeralds for eyes and 349 rubies -- wound tightly around a handset with an antiquated 1.9-inch 262,000-color TFT screen.

到目前爲止，這款最貴的手機也是最無聊的。2006年，英國豪華手機制造商Vertu和法國首飾，手錶和香水生產商 Boucheron合作推出這款眼鏡蛇手機，其最突出的（最花哨）的特點是在手機兩旁的蛇身上鑲嵌有439顆重21克拉的紅寶石，蛇眼睛則爲兩顆祖母綠。

Like Samsung and Bang & Olufsen's Serenata, it too lacked any type of digital camera. In the end, only eight Signature Cobra units were created and sold for $310,000, however Vertu followed up with a more "frugal" edition, the Signature Python, priced to move at $115,000 with a limited run of 26 pieces.

和Serenata一樣，它也沒有攝像頭。最後，只有8部簽名眼鏡蛇以31萬美元的單價售出，但Vertu隨後又推出了一款節儉版，定價在115,000美元，限量26件。

Siemens Xelibri

西門子 Xelibri

In 2003, Siemens released the Xelibri collection, a series of eight distinct phone designs aimed at the sartorially-conscious technorati. Where many handsets might emphasize utility over aesthetics – or try balancing the two design elements – the Xelibri phones clearly placed style over substance.

2003年，西門子發佈了由8部平板手機組成的Xelibri系列。相比外觀，大多數手機更注重實用性，或者在兩者之間找到一個平衡點。而Xelibri系列手機則把造型放在首位。

Trouble was that sense of style was seriously questionable. Supposedly, several phones in the line were inspired by the Star Trek franchise, and while that influence is self-evident, we doubt Captain Kirk -- or anyone else -- would be caught with one of these.

這造型卻成爲一件麻煩事。據說，靈感來源於星際迷航。儘管這種影響是不言而喻的，但很難說科克船長或是其他任何人會看中這款手機。

Apparently, contemporary mobile users agreed. During its two-year run, Siemens sold 780,000 Xelibri phones, accounting for less than 2% of the company's overall total mobile device sales during that period, before they were finally discontinued.

顯然，用戶會同意上述觀點。兩年的運營時間裏，西門子78萬部Xelibri手機，佔公司那時期所有銷售的百分之二還不到。

Nokia X5-01

諾基亞 X5-01

Marketed towards social media-loving teens in the way Microsoft (MSFT) promoted its now-defunct Kin, many of this squared-off slider's features simply don't hold up upon closer inspection. In an age where 4.3-inch cell phone screens are fast becoming the norm, the X5-01's 2.36-inch non-touch screen seems downright quaint. The "gesture recognition" strikes us as pure gimmick: shake the unit, and unread messages pop onscreen. Spin it to jump to a random music track. Any phone that encourages users to do either on a regular basis sounds like trouble. Says Google 24/7 blog editor Seth Weintraub: "It makes the Microsoft Kin look like a beauty pageant winner."

和已經名存實亡的微軟Kin一樣，這款手機主打的人羣是喜歡社交聊天的青年。在一個4.3英寸觸摸屏大行其道的時期，X5-01的2.36英寸非觸摸屏顯得蒼白無力。不過粗短的身材並不太符合傳統手機的握持方式。7月24號，谷歌官方博客編輯Seth Weintraub說：“這就像微軟的Kin一樣看起來只是個美麗虛假的勝利者。