Forum > General discussions > General > EDGE is boooooooming (for those who didn't already know it)

On 2006-02-15 23:08:17, exilis wrote:

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On 2006-02-15 11:55:27, 786KBR wrote: Quote: On 2006-02-15 11:47:36, Arez wrote: lack of EDGE didn´t stop SE from selling 3M illion walkman phones, and some more of k750´s lol mmm Maybe they would have sold more?

I doubt it, 99% of customers I speak to don't even understand the concept of GPRS data, never mind 3G. The number of customers who didn't even have GPRS settings and were quite happy using dialup GSM was alarming! Edge would just be pushing it.

The fact is, the consumer market doesn't particularly care how data is downloaded, just so long as it doesn't cost too much. it's only the comparitively small specialist market that needs/understands/appeciates edge. I don't think I've ever sold a phone in the last 3 years on the basis of it's data speed, I can't see why edge would change that situation. As far as your average punter is concerned its just another meaningless accronym on the box.

I don't blame SE for concentrating on the larger consumer market. In scotland anyway the demand for high speed data is pretty much non exisitant, gprs is more than enough for a few wallpapers and a couple of dodgy ring tones. The customers I deal with on 3g rarely use their phones bandwidth for anything more than text wap pages, so why should edge be included, when people rarely use data enough to warrent the extra cost?

Sure it's popular on here, but we count for a very bias section of the market.