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Motorola is turning up the buzz on the Droid phone, which aims to dislodge the iPhone from its perch of coolness. I wish them luck with their “Droid Does” campaign.

From the photos of the thing that I’ve seen, it looks like they forgot to emphasize the number one design touch of the 2000s. It is the very thing that makes Apple products look so cool: rounded corners.

Come on guys.. we all know that in the 90s the technology design touch was a rectangle with one angled corner, but nowadays if you don’t have rounded corners you might as well be in the stone age.

Granted, they did round the corners, but I think they could be a lot MORE round. After all, there is no such thing as too cool, as historic cool pioneers such as Vanilla Ice have certainly proved.

What I would really like to see is mobile phones adopting a model more like the one we enjoy with computers and internet service. That being that any computer works with any internet service. It seems to me that this is an inevitable shift, but I wish it would hurry up and get here.

I like the mobile phone innovation we’ve seen lately, thanks in no small part to RIM and Apple, but I still can’t shake the feeling I have had the entire time I have owned a cellphone, and that is that they are purposely crippled. I think mobile phone manufacturers leave out obvious features so that they can add them later and call it innovation.

I have no hard evidence to support this, it just seems like the innovation in mobile phones has come at a horribly slow pace because mobile phones enjoy a somewhat closed market, being tied to a carrier. Sure, you can unlock them, but that’s something only nerds do.

I want to see phones compete against phones and carriers compete against carriers, not people choosing AT&T because they have an exclusive deal with Apple. I think that is dumb.

I have heard some rumors that Google is going to release such a phone, and I really hope they do. I think they are the chosen ones, sent to conquer any evil with a magic wand and a weird scar!

That’s right, Google is the Harry Potter of the internet.