June 8, 2005
Samsung's Blue-Black Phone gets a sculpture
A sculpture of Samsung Electronics' ‘Blue-Black Phone,' the SGH-D500, is set up on the approach to Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris.
The phone, a runaway success in Europe, won “Best Consumer Phone” in the UK Mobile Retailer Awards on Monday and German magazine Connect designated it as the most reliable handset in its June 2005 issue.
[via Digital Chosunilbo]
This piece of news has prompted the opening of a new category in textualy, entiteld Cell Phone Monuments where you will find other such (- megamaniacal or not - tributes to cell phones):
-- Huge Fake Siemens cell phone - A worker makes final touches on a huge fake Siemens cell phone in Hanover.
-- Spectra-txt sculpture by Peter Freeman - A spectacular mobile phone operated light sculpture by a Penzance artist has become the centrepiece of a Cleveland town. Spectra-txt, unveiled in Middlesbrough, is 10 metres high and weighs a hefty two tonnes and incorporates a light show.
-- K Headquarters Designed to Resemble Cell Phone - SK Group's new headquarters in Euljiro 2-ga in central Seoul is a uniquely designed building. The so-called "T-Tower," tapers to a blunt edge with an unusual kink at the level of the 27th floor in visual mimicry of a cellular phone.
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