I guess you havent seen the one here in the US (by Motorola I think) where the guy
is stuck in a cab late for a business meeting and in traffic and he rings up
Helicopter.com on his "wireless web" phone and the helicopter comes by to pick him
up ... then when he gets to the meeting they tell him to bring ice cream and he
sends the helicopter to chase done a Mr. Frosty ...
Yet on my phone I can never get through to my inbox ...
- Jon
Victor Pikula wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Quote from the Accenture surey:
> > Less than 1 percent of those surveyed were shopping online with their
> wireless devices, one of the biggest expected uses for the Web-enabled
> gadgets.
>
> That is one of the things that struck me about the recent "wireless web"
> related commercials here in Holland. Its shows a man ordering flowers over his
> new Nokia cell-phone. I sincerely do not think consumers will now jump up and
> say "Hey; that is great! I need to get my hands on such a cell-phone 'cause I
> have been dying to be able to order flowers anywhere for ages!"
>
> Marketing in Western-Europe has clearly switched from a focus on business
> users to consumers. But they are still not addressing the benefits that could
> lead consumers to actually want such a device or function.
>
> In another commercial (again from nokia), we see 2 people using a chat
> function on a mobile phone... in a dark cinema. As industrial organization is
> still hard to find here; I assume this chat-function only works if two people
> own the same Nokia phone.
>
> To illustrate my point: This morning I sent out a SMS to my brother. He could
> not read it, since his Motorola could not read my accentuated characters
> (quite common in German, Swedish and Dutch). Same network though!
>
> The message just said "Wrong format. UCS2" Yeah, right!@
>
> Good weekend to all,
> Victor
>
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Received on Fri Feb 23 14:45:14 2001