I must say that it’s kind of nice going back to a mobile like the “Nokia 8390″:1. It’s a lot like the iPod or the Tivo — devices that do a limited number of things really, really well.

The Nokia 8390 is paragon of simplicity. It doesn’t have a lot of fancy features. No complicated menuing system. No color display. No proprietary connectors. No fancy OS. No Bluetooth. Just voice and text in an intuitive and easy-to-learn way. In a word… elegance.

That’s not to say that I’m not a big fan on some of the newer mobiles coming out these days. Or the new services like Yahoo! Go. In fact, I’ll probably pick up a fancy new mobile in the near future, and with “SIM cards”:3 it’s easy to swap phones for match your modality. But for now, I’m happy with simple.

Zoinger says, “KISS”:2.

[4(Yahoo! Go homepage)]http://go.connect.yahoo.com/go

[3(Wikipedia on SIM cards)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim_card

[2(Wikipedia on KISS)]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

[1(Nokia 8390 homepage)]http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/8390