I thought I'd give a shout out to my phone, which snagged an honorable mention for the Consumer Products category of i-D's 2009 Annual Design Review. Came across it while thumbing through my first subscription issue that just came in the mail today.
Honorable Mentions
T-MOBILE G1 WITH GOOGLE
Design Mike and Maaike Inc.
(San Francisco): Mike Simonian,
Maaike Evers, principals
Client Google
Google's G1 gives touchscreen or spacious qwerty keyboard access to the web, while hoding up to 8GB of apps, images, or music. [Joe] Brown noted that the side hinge "gives you more room for your fingers at the top of the keyboard" while [Scott] Wilson kept happily experimenting with the intuitive clicks and photo panning. But the overall aesthetic, Wilson said, "is mass neutral - it lacks fine details." - i-D July/August 2009
Okay, well, it lacks "fine" details, but that's why it grabbed an honorable mention instead of a Best of Category or Design Distinction award. I'm still not convinced of the Peek device being given a Design Distinction award, but that's mostly because I don't get why anyone would want to carry around a device that only retrieves wireless email, and for $15 a month. After all, why would you pay $15/mo for email, when you can get completely unlimited internet access for another $10 more per month, with T-Mobile?
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