 Re: PC Mag hits the nail on the head...
"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
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> PC Magazine article shows exactly what's wrong in America with Sellphone
> service.....
Well, his main complaints seem to be:
1) Just calling something a "RAZR2" phone doesn't tell you much of anything
about what it can actually *do*, since (as it turns out) "RAZR2" refers to the
case style and nothing else.
2) These phones aren't as user customizable/hackable as he'd like.
They're legitimate gripes, although I think they're more a reflection of the
user base. #1 shows how cell phones today are such a commodity that it really
is their "fashion appeal" more so than actually technical features that sell
them, and #2 reflects how the number of people who'd actually *want* to hack
their phone is quite slim. Even with pretty much every phone out there today
able to run downloadable programs in Java or some other format, I imagine that
<1% of all phone users have ever actually used some 3rd-party piece of
software.
Heck, those looking for 3rd-party software support ought to stick to Palm or
Windows Mobile phones anyway, IMO. Or maybe Linux, if you really want to be
hard-core...
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