Anthropomorphic Technology

I find it quite remarkable that the mobile phone, this highly personal and intimate device, still comes in such cold, industrial-age designs.

People refer to their mobile phones as if they were their best friends. Often the language we use to refer to mobile phones expresses affection and other sentiments that we typically reserve for humans or sometimes our pets. Moreover, we all have an unprecedented degree of attachment (or addiction ?) to our mobile phones: we never fail to go anywhere without them. Indeed, the mobile phone is the most personal technological artifact of our times. And it goes far beyond other personal devices (e.g. the watch, the pen) in terms of the social and personal uses it affords.

Shouldn't therefore its design be more anthropomorphic, as opposed to the cold, metallic and boxy phones that we have become accustomed to? If a more anthropomorphic design were not to find widespread acceptance, what would the dominance of current designs signify for our social relations?