Bad Design (Wyatt Anderson)

I'm really not a Mac fanboy by any means (at least, not since Middle School), but I still think that despite its flaws, the iPhone remains the most usable beyond-basic mobile phone today and is exemplary of good user interface design. The LG Voyager on Verizon, though, was one of the first of many imitators to come to market, and was touted as an "iPhone killer".

Quite the contrary, however, as the LG Voyager is crippled by awful, locked-down Verizon software, cluttered with too many buttons and switches, and has a clumsy, hard-to-activate touch screen which really affords no new functionality (the phone has a "hard" keyboard, unlike the iPhone, which affords much greater functionality than the piss-poor excuse for a virtual keyboard on the front of the clamshell unit).

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Wyatt Anderson
wanderson@gmail.com