It is a common trend nowadays for gadgets such as mobile phones to always be smaller in size as opposed to its predecessor. From the bulky square-like appearance to the slimmer and more compact form, mobile phones continue to diminish in size but is only restricted by one important factor, the mobile phone’s display screen.

As much as people crave more compact and mobile designs, they also want their screens to be bigger in dimension, a dilemma that many mobile phone designers struggled with over the years.

Then came the Brix Mobile Phone.

Brix is a modular mobile phone designed by Seokwon Hong, with a screen spanning the whole width and length of the front-face panel of the unit. It makes use of a touch screen technology for input and has a design that rivals the sleekness and simplicity of the IPhone.

But it isn’t the full-screen feature that makes the Brix Mobile Phone revolutionary. For if you would take another Brix unit and connect them to another one, they would form a much bigger output screen.

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I got a cellular phone upgrade a few days ago in the form of the Sony Ericsson W850i. Used to have the W800i, which I might say is still an excellent phone. But its limited 512mb memory and hardware/software quirks forced me to get a better phone. The W850i takes bit of adjustment since it is a “slide” type handset, which I’m not used to. It comes with 1gb memory, enough to fit in as much music and pictures that I desire.
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