Quoting Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>:
> Now I will take a position:
>
> Following this "smart phone" discussion for several years in
> newspaper etc, I postulate:
>
> The term "smart phone" is a pretty useless marketing term.
It's pretty useless these days - every phone these days could be
considered a "smartphone". I believe the term was in vogue several
years ago (outside Japan) to help consumers understand the difference
between a 'normal' voice-only mobile phone, and one that also had some
'smart' lifestyle-enhancement or special function, e.g. a decent,
editable address book or diary, messaging, wired/wireless connectivity
option (to PC etc), perhaps a novel interface (keyboard or touch UI),
or downloadable apps. I don't think OSes etc factor in - not many
end-users care about OSes - just functions.
> Technical experts have difficult to find a meaningful
> definition of this term.
Since it's not really a term used these days, it's a pretty meaningless
debate I think. I don't think I've ever heard it used in Japan in
particular.
Just my opinion.
Regards
Michael.
Received on Sat Dec 10 23:32:10 2005