Okay, so normally I try to refrain from really venting on here, although I’m sure if you’ve kept up on our blog, you’ve noticed that sometimes I can get a little irritated (that being an understatement). I don’t know why, but I always have high expectations when it comes to products being designed well, that I just assume the people responsible wouldn’t release such a beautiful product if it didn’t function as well as it looked. That being said, I thought it would be appropriate to beat the shit out of our office phone, revealing to you that this phone, in fact, functions as poorly as it looks in the picture above.

Vtech really pulled one over on us, so I thought I would help them out by taking a photograph of their supposedly “amazing” brushed aluminum, wireless, expandable, phone in it’s true form, and not the shit they peddle for truth on their website as a beautiful, functioning phone.

To put it simply, this phone is everything I hate about misleading aesthetics. I’m a firm believer in the perfect harmony of aesthetics & functionality. If it looks great, but it functions poorly, then you need to start over, and rethink your approach. If it functions well, but it’s designed poorly, then you need to start over, and rethink your approach. It’s quite simple actually, rather rudimentary in fact. If 1 + 1 = 2 (and any elementary student can produce such results with such a simple equation), then I think it’s safe to assume this simple logic is floating around the heads of the people responsible for producing garbage such as this, and passing it off to sell people, leading me to only one conclusion… they deliberately released this piece of crap to the public just for $$$.¢¢

You think a company like Vtech would allow their products ample testing time before releasing to the market, but apparently they don’t.

So to sum this up, DON’T BUY VTECH… at all. If you already have, then my heart goes out to you.

Oh, and if you’re sitting there, scratching your head, asking yourself “so what is soooo terrible about this phone?” It always, ALWAYS!!!! loses connection to the “base.” What does that mean exactly? I have no f&*!ing (why do I that? People know what I’m really trying to say) idea at all, but what I do know is that when it loses connection to the “base” it stops functioning completely, leaving us to have to speak with our clients over speaker phone, all while it’s feeding back. What does Vtech do to resolve this problem? Nothing whatsoever. Oh, I’m sorry, that’s not true, they actually go a step further and add to the waste that’s already piling up on our planet by sending us a replacement of the exact same model, with all the bugs included, knowing very well it still won’t work, but that’s their extended warranty. Thanks Vtech, you make our jobs that much more difficult. Oh, and by the way, Vtech, your site sucks híppos potámios (also known as the hippopotamus) nuts. So do yourself a favor and go away, because if you can’t do a simple thing like commissioning an agency (or better yet, a professional, and not some friend of the family) to design and develop your website, than you’re not ever going to meet my expectations ever again when it comes to your crap peddling products.

Enjoy

- m / Colorcubic™

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