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posted by Editor on Monday August 19, @02:40PM
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This article on CNet reports that Sony Ericsson is launching a campaign to find killer applications for its next-generation P800 Smartphone. The company is trying to chip away at the dominance of Nokia by promoting unique new services. The P800 is based on the Symbian operating system, which provides multi-tasking, integrated telephony, communications protocols, data management, advanced graphics support, a UI framework and a variety of application engines in 3G mobile phones. Sony Ericsson says it will promote the top 50 applications that it finds to mobile operators, who will offer them to P800 customers on their Web sites. The mobile phone industry needs to prove it can develop a market for data applications, such as mobile games, or risk writing off investments in the expensive 3G networks, which have already cost operators billions of dollars in radio licenses.
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 20, @09:03AM EST (#1)
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A phone should be a phone, period. Having a game and a calendar and, hell, a full PDA as part of the phone package is not really what I want. If they wanted something that could really be handy, they'd start working with other manufacturers to start producing some kind of uber-modular mobile product, so I can mix and match parts to get the functionality I need at any given time. Then they'd have two products they could worry themselves about (the reusable cellular module and the custom phone casing) and stop trying to jam all that stuff I don't want or need down my throat.
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 20, @01:24PM EST (#2)
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So you don't fit the market demographic for the product; that doesn't mean their idiots, just that they're not designing the absolutely perfect solution for your needs.
Most of the world will always fall into that category, I'm sure - they have to find the broadest appeal to get a positive ROI, not satisfy every potential user of a given product.
PDA's and mobile phones are on a path to merge because of the complementary usefulness of their niches - of course it's more typically useful to have a PDA in front of you to manipulate and access information while on the phone, so unless the phone interface is relegated to a headset the killer functionality of the combination becomes a 50/50 - choose which one you want to use at a given time but not both.
If this ain't up your alley, you don't have to swallow it - nobody's jamming anything down your throat, you're a consumer with a choice.
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Kind of like an updated version of the old Olympus modular microrecorder? Had all kinds of neat attachments. That kind of modularity certainly could be designed into the all purpose portable device of the future. And there's no reason it couldn't be profitable. I don't think Olympus lost any money. Just takes a little vision. A commodity they seem to be doling out by the eyedropper-full these days for some reason.
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by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23, @12:06AM EST (#5)
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new device for SE:P-800... It is placed over the subjects tummy and "scans" the density of stomach contents, asks if the subject is hungry, and boots up foodies.com or other choice "foodies" site.
Useful for those of us who are ignorant of hunger.
Denial can be a powerful tool...
Idea-Ware.MJG.
E:michael.gray@angelfire.com
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