My ancient cellphone: All that is clunky eventually becomes cool again

I’m not a serious cellphone user; it’s basically a necessity for certain mundane family management tasks, and that’s all I use it for. Email, that’s my bag. (Yes, I know that tags me as the fortysomething I am.)

So I’m still using this fairly clunky old Motorola V-60 that Verizon gave me way back when. No camera, not even color, but hey, it works.

And now, it turns out, this very phone has made Kevin Kelly’s excellent Cool Tools site:

If 1960s cars can be fashionable in Hollywood, surely late-1990s phones must stage a comeback at some point. When people look with surprise at my “piece of junk,” I tell them I’m just ahead of my time.