Brick (form)

Brick (form)

The Brick design is a type of electronics form factor, that refers to a device as being typically bulky.

The term is most often used to refer to brick phones. [cite web |url= http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7432915|title= First cell phone a true 'brick'|accessdate= 2008-05-18|author= Associated Press|date= 2005-04-11|publisher= MSNBC] [cite web |url= http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/02/80s-brick-cell-phone|title= 80’s Brick Cell Phone|accessdate= 2008-05-18 |last= Olson|first= Darrin|date= 2007-02-19|work= SlipperyBrick.com|publisher= Pragmatic Labs] [Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1082521|title= DynaTAC 8000X - the World's First Mobile Phone|date= 2003-07-03|work= h2g2|publisher= BBC|accessdate= 2008-05-18]

Brick phone designs have largely become unpopular and seen as outdated, since newer technologies have allowed for decreased battery size, and therefore, a slimmer and more portable phone.

Since most brick phones were created at a time when only the Bar phones existed, brick phones are often seen as being almost exclusively a type of Bar phone, but Flip phones, Slide phones, and Swivel phones, can all be brick phones too.

ee also

* Bar
* Flip
* Slide
* Swivel

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