Count me in with Steve Johnson: I don't care about fancy-pants new features on my phone.
Chicago Tribune | Hypertext Before the survey that was just released, , I would have sworn Americans had reached their fill of overstuffed cell phones. Rather than the “more” that the survey (commissioned, suspiciously, by a cell-phone company) claims we want, I would have bet that we, as a people, were sensible enough to want our cell phones to actually do less. I know I do.My ideal phone serves the following functions: 1. Makes calls. 2. Receives calls. 3. Does not hide itself under couch cushions, in junk-drawer crannies, beneath car seats, etc.
All the rest is marketing-department frippery that needlessly jacks monthly bills or initial phone costs.
Yes, I'm suspicious of this survey too. In my own non-commissioned survey, nobody wanted their phones to do anything else other than have better battery life and better reception.
Plus there was a tidbit excerpted in the current Newsweek of a projection (IDC Research maybe? too lazy to look at the moment) that consumers are going to spend $1 billion dollars on anti-virus and anti-spyware software for their phones in the next few years.
Ummm, no thanks.
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