Toe in the Water

uPhone

uPhone

Wouldn't a truly smart phone cough gently and inform you that someone wished to speak to you, rather than crassly interrupting you with some awful parody of a TV show theme? Instead of wildly vibrating, wouldn't it respectfully touch your shoulder and ask whether you wished to accept a call or would rather the phone take a number and advise that you'd have your people contact them in due course?

I await the day…

The title of this rather obvious post is intended (quite clearly, I think) as a comment on that vile intrusion upon our lives that is the iPhone. But, as soon as I thought of the name, I recalled that “euphony,” far from being an iPhone for Europe, is defined as “the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words” and/or “the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.” That seems to me to confirm the selection of title.


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Note: Definitions by Oxford Languages.