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Americans not interested in smartphones |
pachy
Joined: Nov 05, 2002
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@rj, A phone is a COMMUNICATION device, all recent developments are just extending that role
I think Americans DO want lots of features but their priority is always going to be signal & sound quality because in lots of areas they suffer terribly with a poor quality GSM infrastructure & are NOT happy about that, this is mainly due to the huge scale of the country, making it far harder to make a good coverage service than in europe or South East Asia.
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Matteus
Joined: Oct 20, 2002
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I can recommend a combiation of very small phone and a pda. Actually I have a T39+Tungsten. I really understand the Jupiter R. result, because it is the reasonable arangement: a very small phone with excellant acustics and BT.
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jacobdol
Joined: May 03, 2002
Posts: 5
From: San Francisco
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In America everything has to be big, comfortable and simple. Thus nobody wants to tap little keys and try to read something of a tiny screen. What is great is that americans belive everything that they are told... hence there is a need for a better marketing strategy saying that sending an SMS is cheaper than making a call; it's just you have to start with the big corporations and convince them that they have to provide services similar to SMS on request and stuff... For instance to find out your bank balance or movie times -- this saves time instead of calling customer service... I bet the only bank in the US that sends SMSs with your balance is CITI Bank (love it).
There is a need for an education. In my opinion wireless providers (Cingular and T-mobile) do a super lousy job advertising their wireless internet. They need to let people know that all you have to do is to hook up your PDA/PC to your phone via bluetooth (when I say bluetooth in my office people start looking in my mouth) or cable and you can have internet everywhere (well almost). Americans use the interenet a lot and I bet if they knew more about the wap and gprs, they would have used it a lot. The problem is that 2.5G is still super slow. And I mean -- SLOW... Any-hoo it feels nice to be ahead of the rest....
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DragonEye
Joined: Sep 26, 2002
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From: Canada
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Hey RJ,
Just a thought aren't the best phones the most expensive ones that also have the most toys?
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moodswinger
Joined: Dec 10, 2001
Posts: 78
From: New York, USA
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CITI bank does NOT send you balance updates via SMS as they claim. They will do it via "e-mail" that is then extended to their phone. Moreover, they gave never heard of an SMS.
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MNGuy
Joined: Nov 18, 2002
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Investors and Manufacturers are hoarding technology
It's sad that the exciting technology are not being pushed really hard here in the US. My theory is distributors of mobile devices are still trying to recover their investment on older products They invest on a lot of them that they need to get rid of them first before moving to the latest available technology which the european and asian countries are enjoying. It's really going to be hard for the mass consumer to be aware and to adapt to this newer technology here if it will remain(excessively) profit oriented rather than innovation and forward thinking. Just an opinion... |
rj
Joined: Jul 14, 2002
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On 2003-07-31 19:34:35, DragonEye wrote:
Hey RJ,
Just a thought aren't the best phones the most expensive ones that also have the most toys?
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i don't understand your question, but if u meant 'aren't the expensive phones the ones with more features?'
not necessarily, i'll have to say no to that...
samsung P40x series is much more expensive than p800s but less features.
8910i v. P800. 8910i makes the p800 seems like 'free phones' price wise.
also, when motorola v70's were released, some people paid upto $1K per unit EVENTHOUGH HANDSPRING TREOs were out...
2cents.
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Posted: 2003-07-27 15:09
