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I picked up someone else's 6600 once and it was crazy. There was the missed calls, unread messages and bluetooth icons on the top of the screen. Every app he installed was sitting in his main window, many of which were expired and unusable. The GPRS settings has been changed a few times as he travelled so he had no data service. (This is only going to get worse. There are so many more apps that need server settings - web, chat, sms/mms, syncing, email, presence and more. I wrote about this before as well. Users can barely get their phone working now... how are they going to maintain all those different settings?) The worse thing was that despite the fact that he had a large MMC card, he was running out of room for his messages and photos because everything was defaulting to his phone's comparatively small memory store instead. What a mess. The problems with syncing means that more and more photos and data are staying on the phones, the complexity of the networking setup means more phones go unused for data services, and more. I was explaining to a journalist just yesterday that the key to mobile devices is not just simplicity but payback. Applications have to have enough payback in order for the user to take time and effort to learn how to use that new app or functionality.
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I picked up someone else's 6600 once and it was crazy. There was the missed calls, unread messages and bluetooth icons on the top of the screen. Every app he installed was sitting in his main window, many of which were expired and unusable. The GPRS settings has been changed a few times as he travelled so he had no data service. (This is only going to get worse. There are so many more apps that need server settings - web, chat, sms/mms, syncing, email, presence and more. I wrote about this before as well. Users can barely get their phone working now... how are they going to maintain all those different settings?) The worse thing was that despite the fact that he had a large MMC card, he was running out of room for his messages and photos because everything was defaulting to his phone's comparatively small memory store instead. What a mess. The problems with syncing means that more and more photos and data are staying on the phones, the complexity of the networking setup means more phones go unused for data services, and more. I was explaining to a journalist just yesterday that the key to mobile devices is not just simplicity but payback. Applications have to have enough payback in order for the user to take time and effort to learn how to use that new app or functionality.
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