Comments on: The USA, the rest of the world, and the cell phone culture http://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Gavulahttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/#comment-45766 Christopher Gavula Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:26:48 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=33506#comment-45766 I just finished reading the article and I really think he lost it once he refered part o the problem to the "dominance" of CDMA in the US market. That simply isn't the case. GSM and CDMA have been running on par here for a long time. GSM has never been the "significant minority" that the author refers to. I really think the author also should have separated the Asian markets from the European markets. Nokia has failed to have dominance there either. In other words - other than his comments about the European market - he doesn't understand the other markets the way he thinks he does and he draws some odd conclusions as a result. I think the early adoption of email as a legal communication method in the US impacted this a bit as well - Nokia is not good at browsing or email. I just finished reading the article and I really think he lost it once he refered part o the problem to the “dominance” of CDMA in the US market. That simply isn’t the case. GSM and CDMA have been running on par here for a long time. GSM has never been the “significant minority” that the author refers to.

I really think the author also should have separated the Asian markets from the European markets. Nokia has failed to have dominance there either.

In other words – other than his comments about the European market – he doesn’t understand the other markets the way he thinks he does and he draws some odd conclusions as a result.

I think the early adoption of email as a legal communication method in the US impacted this a bit as well – Nokia is not good at browsing or email.

]]> By: Michael Andersonhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/#comment-45755 Michael Anderson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:52:29 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=33506#comment-45755 Exactly - and that 'convergence' further renders most of that article useless. Exactly – and that ‘convergence’ further renders most of that article useless.

]]> By: Carly Zhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/#comment-45749 Carly Z Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:32:47 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=33506#comment-45749 I agree, I think very quickly we're going to see most phones have at the minimum some sort of suretype, if not full qwerty. I can't believe how fast it went from qwerty on smartphones-only to qwerty on a freebie phone with contract. I also think that the low end of the smartphone market and the high end of the featurephone market are colliding for the same reason (main audience being people who just want a qwerty for texts and maybe logging into gmail twice a week), but I am planning on discussing that in a separate post. I agree, I think very quickly we’re going to see most phones have at the minimum some sort of suretype, if not full qwerty. I can’t believe how fast it went from qwerty on smartphones-only to qwerty on a freebie phone with contract.

I also think that the low end of the smartphone market and the high end of the featurephone market are colliding for the same reason (main audience being people who just want a qwerty for texts and maybe logging into gmail twice a week), but I am planning on discussing that in a separate post.

]]> By: Christopher Sperahttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/#comment-45747 Christopher Spera Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:46:23 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=33506#comment-45747 ...and another reason why I think most phones are going to move to some kind of QWERTY keyboard eventually. I think many people got used to T9 for texting simply because they had no other choice. However, I don't know of ANYONE teen or otherwise who prefers T9 to QWERTY for TXT/SMS. Whether that QWERTY keyboard is touch screen based or physical is not as relevant as whether or not phones as a whole change their designs to accommodate this. Thoughts? …and another reason why I think most phones are going to move to some kind of QWERTY keyboard eventually. I think many people got used to T9 for texting simply because they had no other choice. However, I don’t know of ANYONE teen or otherwise who prefers T9 to QWERTY for TXT/SMS. Whether that QWERTY keyboard is touch screen based or physical is not as relevant as whether or not phones as a whole change their designs to accommodate this.

Thoughts?

]]> By: Michael Andersonhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/06/16/the-usa-the-rest-of-the-world-and-the-cell-phone-culture/#comment-45746 Michael Anderson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:03:40 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=33506#comment-45746 I am glad that he admits a Finn / Nokia history ... as it shows his bias. He is very quick to point out the wrong-ness of American assumptions and market centricity, but seems somewhat blind to issues with Nokia ... Honestly, I feel that the world is coming together on this stuff rather than moving apart ... my old Psion Revo has a SMS function at a time when US cell phones had no texting ... now it in nearly inconceivable to consider a phone without texting. I am glad that he admits a Finn / Nokia history … as it shows his bias. He is very quick to point out the wrong-ness of American assumptions and market centricity, but seems somewhat blind to issues with Nokia …

Honestly, I feel that the world is coming together on this stuff rather than moving apart … my old Psion Revo has a SMS function at a time when US cell phones had no texting … now it in nearly inconceivable to consider a phone without texting.

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