Given the tremendous popularity of e-mail, text messaging, twitter, and instant messaging, we might consider, or re-consider (in the olden days, it was called a pager) a mobile device that only does text: no voice, no graphics. People seem to prefer reading over listening, and the asynchronicity of texting, not disturbing others by talking on the phone, privacy. Devices and plans should be cheap.
Another old form factor, for a non-mobile device, that could be brought back is the ticker tape machine.
A very new form factor to try is the head's up display Visor. You have short text messages overlaid on your field of view. A remote control -- a Bluetooth keyboard, for example -- lets you type.
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There is a new text only service called Qwert Corp. It's just texting, no voice, no data.
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