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DEL.ICIO.USWasted Potential?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Remember how excited you were when you picked up that picture-taking, MP3-playing, can-opening cellphone? Remember how you planned to become the Ansel Adams of the cellphone set? Videograph your life and upload it to YouTube for the world to see? Download your entire Grateful Dead collection for between-call croon-fests?
Betcha didn’t.
David Chamberlain, principal wireless analyst for InStat, stopped by the Wireless Technology Forum at the Marriott Perimeter Center in Dunwoody to talk about consumer trends.
According to his company’s research, 57 percent of camera-equipped cellphone users planned to prodigiously share cellphone photos, but only 28 percent actually have.
Chamberlain said nearly 65 percent of music-playing phone owners planned to use them as their primary or secondary MP3 player, but 44 percent haven’t transferred a single file and another 29 percent say they haven’t added all those they’d planned to.
“The numbers are kind of sad when you consider how important camera phones were when you were going to go down and by one,” Chamberlain said.
What’s the big hang-up? Ease of use, he said.
One suspects there’s money to be made there.
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By Eric
November 23, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this
This is so freakin stupid. I want my phone to make calls without dropping the call. That’s it!!! I have a MP3 player if I want music, I have a camera if I want pictures. Quit spending time and money putting unneeded things on cellphones and just use that time and money to make a system that I don’t have to worry about losing my call. Why don’t these people get this? I assume they are reasonably intelligent. Am I assuming too much?
By Kevin
November 23, 2006 1:26 PM | Link to this
Eric, the cell phone makers and the wireless companies are different entities. The cell phone makers keep adding all these unneeded gimcracks to sell more phone units. Talk to your service provider about your problem with dropped calls.
By Michael
November 24, 2006 9:07 AM | Link to this
The real wasted potential is not in the cellphones—it’s in the people who could be doing something interesting or productive instead of blabbing on the phone ten hours a day. Just because cellphones have given you the means to talk on the phone more or less all the time doesn’t mean you actually have to do it.