Thursday, August 7, 2003
Mobile Phones Go Crash-Crash?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:13 PM
I've written up a little editorial piece over at Smartphone Thoughts about mobile phones crashing - go check it out if you're interested.
"Somewhere along the way, mobile phones became real computers, and when that happened, they started acting like computers: they crashed. Walk with me down this path...until the year 2000 (give or take a year), mobile phones were just that: phones. Sure, they might have had a game or two, and a few tried to include calendar functionality, but the vast majority of people used them as phones, nothing more. I've had various cell phones for over a decade now, and I don't remember any of my early cell phones crashing or locking up. They just worked, but they only did one thing: phone calls..."
"Somewhere along the way, mobile phones became real computers, and when that happened, they started acting like computers: they crashed. Walk with me down this path...until the year 2000 (give or take a year), mobile phones were just that: phones. Sure, they might have had a game or two, and a few tried to include calendar functionality, but the vast majority of people used them as phones, nothing more. I've had various cell phones for over a decade now, and I don't remember any of my early cell phones crashing or locking up. They just worked, but they only did one thing: phone calls..."
