Dragged to the front page: Communication first

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Shaun

peopleJoel posted an good thought about BlackBerry’s yesterday and highlighted the drift away from communication in many new smartphones- “I used to have the HTC Fuze from AT&T. I sold it and got the Blackberry 8900. The keyboard and sluggishness on Windows Mobile was just something that I was not willing to put up with. The Blackberry has the best keyboard in my opinion. Besides, we buy a smartphone to communicate and do other things along with it. But, that smartphone should communicate first, not second.  Too many smartphones out there are PDA first and phone second. One thing for sure about a Blackberry; they are communication machines. I am connected in and better than ever before. I have not seen or even played with a phone that even comes close to the experience. Just my two cents.”

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4 Responses to Dragged to the front page: Communication first

  1. Sidthebad says:
    November 7, 2009 at 10:27 am

    Fascinating. For me my phone should be a PDA first and a phone second. I have a work phone where the opposite is truebut my personal phone is much more PDA than phone and that’s what I want it for.

    Sid

  2. David says:
    November 7, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Let me add a little more to my previous comment. If I was to analyse what I do with my personal phone (iphone) it would be 95+% made upm of calendar, tasks, ipod, video, web, other apps and a tiny fraction of calls and texts.

    My work phone would be 95+% made up of calls. I’m very picky here on call quality and battery life.

    Very different functions result in very different demands on the phone.

    Sid

  3. Shaun says:
    November 7, 2009 at 11:25 am

    I see what you mean Sid. I guess it would be nice to see a smartphone which can do calls and everything else to the same high level.

  4. vboelema says:
    November 7, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    I used to think I wanted a pda with a basic phone built, to safe me carrying both. I don’t use the phone that much. But when I couldn’t get sms delivery message/status, data usage tracking, or hear and be heard during a phone call etc. I realized that what I in fact really wanted was a decent smartphone, and that it wasn’t too much to ask, especially for the amount we spend on these babies!