Maurice, you are right, I'm wrong, sloppy reading.
I hope you noticed that the 3310 works with three times
longer SMS-messages, delivered as three separate ones on
old phones, I guess.
The keyboard doesn't seem to be a problem for the young
ones, they use two thumbs faster than my eyes can follow.
In Finland a special "SMS langauge" variation has developed
which shortens messages through abbreviations,etc, much
in the same way as emoticons for Internet.
Predictive text input also affects the style of writing,
words which are difficult to predict are replaced by
those predicted faster and easier.
From my limited experience on voice recognition it is much
more restrictive.
Do you have the same thing, that one new, good SMS-joke
probably is sent some one million times in a couple of days,
everyone sends it to 2-4 buddies.
Girls also collect their "first SMS-messages" to that
special boy, then they need to transfer them to a PC
to archive them to start from scratch with the new cute
guy.
It is pretty incredible, one niece visited India this summer
and we kept in contact (she tested the local operators under
a small contract from me to sponsor the trip) through
SMS messages, lost baggage, arriving at new places, on the
train to Bombay,etc..
We also tested the delay and it seemed to be fairly instant,
at least within minutes (within Finland within 2-10 seconds).
Another good use is to alert somebody on a TV-program,
an interview in TV,etc. (one would not call but a SMS
message is less intruding and an email would not
be instant)
Service crews, etc out in the field also use SMS messages
to order spareparts, find out about the next job,etc.
communication with the boss. (additionally they do not
want external antennas, easier to handle the phone,keep in
a pocket when nothing protruding)
It's worse when the buddies constantly send messages when
one has finally got that girl isolated from the rest, in
the car, on a stroll or at home. Even worse when she
gets the messages.. (from what I've heard)
Ilmarinen.
P.S. CDMA WLAN (802.11) is beeing rolled out in Finland by a
small company (largest non-telco IProvider, Saunalahti)
using fixed, directional antennas, 1-10Mbps. On the other
hand the local copper-operators are unbundling the
copper wire already, legally from december 21. (my small
IProvider leases the wire to our home and I pay a fixed
SDSL monthly fee directly to them)
However, the rumour is that the 802.11 has some problems
when there are more users than 40-60, even when sectorized.
(everything stops working due to mutual interference and too much
lost packets) |
