A day in the (web 2.0) life
I just saw this commercial on YouTube. Now, I’m not trying to promote Sprint, but the concept of the commercial is fantastic. I love the bit about Twitter. This truly does express what consumers do daily as a result of web 2.0 and mobile technology. Apparently “the buzz on the street” is saying that the new phone, the Palm Pre, is slated to be the device that will finally give the iPhone a run for it’s money. I don’t know about that, but the commercial has a very high “cool factor”. It’s amazing how our lives have changed with technology. Can you remember a time when you couldn’t send a text or surf the web via your cell phone? Just barely…
Palm Pre webOS – new Sprint Commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-tRHNElTo4[/youtube]
I wish I could say that I remember a time when I had a cell phone that didn’t send text messages or surfed the web, but sadly I cannot. My parents gave me my first phone just around the time these two activities got hot. As for the Palm Pre, I would have to say that it does have the features necessary to out do the IPhone. I recently just saw a video on youtube that gives reasons why it’s going to be better. It convinced me. There is a short cuts bar and a keypad for those that do not wish to hassle with the touch screen. Here the URL of the video I saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiQzCd2OnoM
I have avoided using the Internet on my phone for the seven years I’ve owned one. Now, with the success of the iPhone and its peers, I’ve decided to upgrade to a phone with an effective browser and an internet plan. What I wonder, however, as I shop, is whether phones are starting to offer too many features. A friend of my told me this week that he sold his iTouch. He said that it offered “too much.” Instead of grabbing it in the morning, he’d just reach for his basic, old cellphone and leave the distractions behind. Will users start regretting the plethora of distractions provided by phones like the iPhone and opt instead to buy a simple cell phone, a normaliPod and other basic products so they can choose daily which capabilities to carry with them? Reminds me of a discussion we had in COM435. An article about how having too many applications on the iPhone causes crashes: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10115696-233.html As Adrienne addressed in a previous post, can we have too many applications in our lives?
(Note: I did mean iTouch, not iPhone. My friend had no qualms about carrying two products; he simply did not want the distraction of the iTouch’s many options.)