Archive for the 'HULGER*DISS' Category

IRON PHONE

Friday, August 8th, 2008

UK based designer Vladimir Rachev sent us this Iron Phone concept. Here’s his full product portfolio.

$4.5BN WASTED EVERY YEAR ON “NO FAULT FOUND” MOBILE PHONE RETURNS

Monday, July 17th, 2006

A recent study suggests that nearly two-thirds of mobile phones returned to the manufacturer by consumers are in perfect working order.
Of these:

38% were from users who gave up after trying to use a specific application, and failing.
13% were from consumers who said they’d been mis-sold the device and it was unfit for purpose.
49% were from [...]

PLAGIARIUS

Friday, May 26th, 2006

The prize for the plagiarist

JYPHONE

Monday, December 12th, 2005

spot the difference

CREATIVE?

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Creative for me is doing something unexpected, to rewrite the rules and yet still somehow make sense
Creative for Creative on the other hand means copy your rival as closely as possible and then sue them for some arbitrary patent that by the sounds of it should never have been granted (remember amazon 1-click!!). They must [...]

MORE IS LESS

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Engadget linked to this little beauty. Sums up for me what happens when you let functions overload. Further proof that more is less

THE POKIA / HULGER COPIES

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Copies are obviously very flattering but in some cases cause confusion.
HULGER is the new name for pokia.com but the following are all copies: Retrostars, Phobile, Pokiaonline, Pokia.us, Mockia, Funkyphones and now jyphone too (who even have the cheek to copy our Monorex Special Edition P*PHONEs)
(read the comments after this posting. a copy-ist even has the [...]

Don’t be fooled by Phobile

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

Copies are obviously very flattering but in some cases cause confusion.
HULGER is the new name for pokia.com but the following are all copies: Retrostars, Phobile, Pokiaonline, Pokia.us, Mockia, Funkyphones and now jyphone too (who even have the cheek to copy our Monorex Special Edition P*PHONEs)