Small Surfaces

Flipper the Dolphin takes some of the current smartphones through their paces and finds them sorely lacking.

“So far, not so good. But how does it work underwater? Terrible. The Treo 680 fizzled and died as soon as I dove down three feet. I didn’t even get a chance to test its web-browsing capabilities before it shorted out completely. It’s easy to get complacent when you’ve been one of the big kids on the block, and Palm has done just that. They have to learn to adapt to the needs of their diverse customer base, not the other way around.”

Link: Test-Driving The New Smartphones (theonion.com)