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If you sum together the stuff people in this thread has suggested, you have the Homers Car of phones on your hands


...what stuff?

The suggestions I'm seeing are yes hole punch, no hole punch, a screen you can use with one hand, just enough battery-filled thickness to have no camera bump, good camera, microsd, fingerprint sensor, headphone jack.

And one person wants a keyboard but I don't think they're suggesting that for this phone.

Once you decide if you want a hole punch or not, I see no issue with implementing the rest of those features in the same phone in a reasonable way.


It's this or a Youtube clip that's maybe monetized by Disney at best... https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer

The Homer was a car that Home Simpson built to exactly what they wanted without any tradeoffs for off the shelf components, trends, or sensibility of what currently was common.

It's also somewhat design by committee, with features like a more luxurious bubble for the adults, and a micro-bubble for the kids; presumably so you can ignore anything but the screams or silence.

I also suspect this fictional car might have been an ingredient in the market shifting from minivans to SUVs. Those don't have such great audio isolation but were even taller than the minivans (which were taller than station wagons). Or it could be the 'backup camera' finally reaching a tolerable price level.


I also suspect this fictional car might have been an ingredient in the market shifting from minivans to SUVs

The simpsons also did the canyonero:

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA


Didn't Homer buy the women's model? Was it the F-series?


I dont remember, I remember this as an end of episode gag/commentary on the suv’s rising popularity of the 90s


It's really just the iPhone 3GS.




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