The Difference Between a Man’s Phone.. and a Lady’s Phone

Mobile phones started off as a very utility kind of thing, something that we all just use like a computer mouse. They were all mostly made in generic colours like Black or Grey and they’re meant to be unisex. That was probably like 10 years ago.

Today as mobile phones evolved from a communication tool to take on the additional purpose of an accessory (why else do some people wear their phones around their neck these days or lay their phones on the tables at Coffee Bean), we’ve started to see phones that are for guys and phones that are for girls and they differ more than you think.

Now I’m going to compare two phones from the same brand for this and basically two models.

Behold the LG KP500


And the LG Ice-Cream KF350

Clearly the LG KP500 is for the men.

Now lets do a very simple newbie comparison between the features of both phones.

Apart from the usual features of a phone, the LG KP500 has:
1) A 3” Full touch screen. Touch screens seem to be the trend these days.

2) A stylus because that just makes the phone a lot cooler when you’re standing in a line playing with your phone. Plus things like handwriting recognition just makes the geek in you smile. I remember when I had my first phone with handwriting recognition, I was playing with it non-stop till I finally got used to it and took it for granted after a few months.

3) And motion sensor games where you can play games that require you to tilt, flip or twist the phone.

And well, also important with our current economic climate that it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. This costs only RM899.

Now compare it to the LG Ice-Cream KF350
1) NO TOUCH SCREEN.

Why? Because most girls I know hate touch screens. You should see one of my girl friends try to dial a number on my touch screen phone with her fingernails. It’s like trying to pick up a needle with boxing gloves on.

STICK TO BUTTONS BUTTONS BUTTONS!!!



2) NO stylus because lets face it, not very cool on a girl.

3) Most girls I know don’t care about motion censor games or games in general.

So what do the really girly girls care about then?

They care about the fact that the phone is PINK and PRETTY. The Ice-cream for example has pretty 3D lighting effects and it comes it sweet pastel colours like thisThis
Or thisSecondly, the girls I know seem to prefer flip-phones more to other phones.

Now of course there’s no hard and fast rule to any of this. I mean some girls would like the touch screen LG KP500 and some guys might like the LG Ice-Cream (seriously dudes?) but heck, this is just something I happen to notice among the mobile phones that come out for each target market.As for me, give me a touch screen phone packed with features any day of the week and I’ll even give up the fact that I can’t SMS while driving no more. I tell you that’s why there are so many touch phones these days.
The governments of the world decided that there were too many people typing SMSs while driving and they wanted to find a way to stop it so they invented… THE TOUCH SCREEN PHONE.

Ahhhh… oh well… for road safety it is.