In the The Top 10 list from fosfor, there are some phones I mentioned as well like the PENCK or more recently the LG Chocolate. KDDI's au Design Project comes out as a clear winner. Sadly most of these au phones are not available here in Europe.
Notable: the RAZR doesn't get into the Top 10.

What still puzzles me, is the fact that we haven't yet seen a phone which has the usability of a Nokia, the beauty and sleekness of a KDDI phone, the camera and screen of a Sharp and which offers on top of that a great service.


See also:
Students at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London have been coming up with designs for the biggest selling phone of 2015:
Mobiles of the Future

Editions Underbahn publish a QR Code on all their books which after decoding is an ISBN of one of their books:



You can take a picture of the QR Code and send it via MMS to their server. There it is decoded. Naturally you can also directly read it with this QR Code reader and send them an SMS (they could also encode the SMS right away - here is the result with my long message). It's cheaper and I guess they will be surprised;)

They promise to send you back an answer in 24 hrs. and give you an URL to access the bonus to your book.

Image: Sharp

Barcode Function explained here:

バーコード読み取り・作成／文字読み取り（OCR）
QRコードやJANコードの読み取りはもちろん､直接英数字を読み取ることも可能。読み取った情報は､電話帳に登録したり、インターネット接続や電話をかけるなど､様々な利用ができます。また､QRコードは作成することもできます。

The Sharp 902sh is distributed in France via SFR and in Switzerland via Swisscom. It comes with a QR Code Reader and can read mobile manga.

In France the QR Code Reader has not been taken out, I am interested to know how it is in Switzerland.

PS: And what about the Sharp 770sh?