The Worlds Most Revolutionary Cell Phone

On the cover of GOOD 006, the Design issue, we ran an image of an AK-47 and asked this question: Is there design this good that doesn't kill people? According to a story in Foreign Policy, there is: the Nokia 1100 cell phone.

Like an AK-47, the article posits, the Nokia 1100 is strong and hyper-efficient: built to endure the less-than-ideal conditions for electronics in developing nations.

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http://www.good.is/post/the-world-s-most-revolutionary-cell-phone/