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It's pretty clear that smartphones aren't primarily for placing calls. They're pocket computers with cellular internet access.
by Raphael 16y ago
It's pretty clear that smartphones aren't primarily for placing calls. They're pocket computers with cellular internet access.
- iwwr 16y agoThey're premium walled gardens with puny bandwidth. If only operators really treated them like mobile computers and not walking cash registers...
- tincholio 16y agoYou should move to Europe (well, one of the nordic countries anyway), dude... I have unlimited HSPA access which costs something like 15Eur/month, and the bandwidth you get is most definitely not puny.
- earl 16y agoThat's exactly what they are. However, they're an inferior phone. And so my post is a counterpoint to the article's claim that smartphones will extinguish dumb phones. Because people still want to have a phone that does phone things.
- 6ren 16y agoIf a dumb phone was even more reliable and had greater battery life etc, would it make much difference to you? If a smart phone was even more reliable and had greater battery life etc, would it make much difference to you? That's disruption. I guess there's a real question as to whether smart phones will keep becoming more powerful, thus keeping battery life short (like Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away). But certainly, there could be smart phones with today's performance, but with the same reliability and battery life as current dumb phones, it's just a matter of when (prolly not in 3 months!)