In Search of the First Super Easy Super-Phone
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte recently railed against complexity in cell phones, saying that "simplicity is the biggest challenge that handset makers face." He's right. What users are really clamoring for is a phone with a beautiful screen and a brain-dead-simple user interface like the iPhone, with the core business functionality and keyboard performance of a BlackBerry and the high-quality camera of some of the LG phones. We want GPS, 3G and great media management. So who's going to deliver the first SUPER-EASY-TO-USE SUPER PHONE? (Follow the link for my prediction.)
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Reasons I do not have a cell phone (and likely will never own one):
1. The key board is too ridiculously small for my fingers.
2.I've seen some owner's manuals and have absolutely no desire to spend weeks and weeks learning how to make a call, send a text message, nor answer my phone.
3. I resent any electronic device that requires a class in group thinking and/or lessons or professional installers to make the device somewhat usable. Also that's a reason to resent the new television sets they're foisting on us.
4. The cost is ridiculously high for what you get. Paying for both incoming and outgoing calls is a plain rip off.
That's the first four reasons. There are others.
You might like to read this post by Joi Ito, which is relevant to the subject here. Basically, his angle is that the lack of innovation in mobile is down to the lack of open platforms and the oligopolistic nature of the industry. As long as a couple of dominant handset manufacturers can sell the same old cod to the same old network buddies, nothing will change. What do they care if phones are hard to use? They still sell, don't they?
Have you looked at all at the ATT Tilt? I am not sure what it is missing that would not make it, at least mostly; fit the bill for the ultimate cell phone. I suggest you take a look at it, and let us all know just what it is missing.
Omegaman
Have you looked at all at the ATT Tilt? I am not sure what it is missing that would not make it, at least mostly; fit the bill for the ultimate cell phone. I suggest you take a look at it, and let us all know just what it is missing.
Omegaman
I discovered that if I ignore voice mail, text messages, texting, email, voice activation, etc.. I can just use my cell phone to make phone calls. Like having my own private pay phone in my pocket! Without having to dig for change!
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