On my walk yesterday I saw Katharina das Große in the window of a health care shop:
Amazon reviews are very harsh on this mobile phone. The main objection seems to be that it isn’t mobile – it won’t fit in a jacket pocket or handbag, so it gets left at home. People also feel they are being treated as if they were disabled. In addition, there may be some functioning problems.
If you scroll down here, you can see it’s at least four times the size of a normal cell phone.
Billions of tourists stagger round Barcelona taking crap photographs on their monstrous iPads, which seems to me to betray an even more limited understanding of technological evolution. But maybe they’re more focused on brand than utility – Italians, not Germans, if you want an easy stereotype.
The main thing is they leave the mobile phone at home and, like me, use their iPads for their Chinese homework.