Comments on: The Unreasonable Stance: Only Luddites Don’t Have Smartphones

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:15:21 +0000

I love how a non-American example is given as to how we should equip ourselves (Japan). If the cool phones available in Asia and Europe were available here, we WOULD all have smart phones (see picture above of Japanese model as proof). US Carriers’ selection sux! I have yet to see & try a qwerty keyboard on a phone available in the US that has buttons realisticaly useful. Newsflash; the rest of us in line at the airport still think that you, mr. “i’m too important with my little blue led beaming from my ear to acknowledge anyone around me-and you should all listen in as I order my minions around” are still a jerk.

By: Scott Powell

Scott Powell — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:15:28 +0000

Mostly, only geeks and some select biz folk use Smartphones. The rest of the world is Completely Content with their voice/TXT handset, which they don’t have to worry about dropping, rebooting, virus-protecting, which is light, small, and almost completely Disposable.

Smartphones are *great*, don’t get me wrong, but there’s STILL not enough compelling reasons for the Great Unwashed to use them.

By: Metric

Metric — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:34:24 +0000

If the smart phone doesn’t crash, its battery lasts a week plus and can fall onto airport tarmac a couple of times I might think of one.
When you are travelling all over the world you want reliability and not features. You look stupid if you have just rocked up in Stockholm, Singapore or Shanghi and the first thing you have to do is get your new available only in California and Korea phone fixed.

By: trent

trent — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:57:42 +0000

Ridiculous! I have a pocket pc but I totally disagree with you. Everyone does not NEED a smartphone. And yes, $20 extra a month can break the bank. We’re an entire county of nothing but consumers that overspend and do not save a dime for retirement. Then we expect the government to bail us out when we were too stupid to manage our own money (i.e. subprime bull).

By: drdrew

drdrew — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:22:55 +0000

“This is a statement of fact: Everybody needs a smartphone, and if you don’t, you’re doing something wrong.”

And on tomorrow’s Oprah: “Men who breathe, and how we can stop them.”

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:30:57 +0000

Haha! Y’know, even if this article hadn’t convinced me that I needed a smartphone, it certainly made me laugh!

By: Acurm Udgeon

Acurm Udgeon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:04:36 +0000

This discussion also harkens back to the days when we endlessly debated the merits of component hi-fi gear VS receivers. It also touches on the focused tool based UNIX philisophy VS the monolithic solutions favoured in Windows.

The fact is, I don’t want one single easy to lose gadget that tries to do everything. I prefer to use the right tool for the job. To me the phone should be little more than a node on the cellular network which provides a voice terminal and non-monetized data over a bluetooth network for my PDA/handheld/whatever.

By: Anif™

Anif™ — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:39:38 +0000

I have the Nokia E61i….probably one of the sexiest looking smart phones with all the bells and whistles to match…..BB’s are just too common

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:02:05 +0000

Hey, guy! Yes, I can’t agree with you any more. Everybody needs a smartphone, it possesses all regular phones’s features, but better, faster, and harder. It is an inevitable trend of using samrtphone. I plan to purchase one as a gift of Xmas/2008. You see, now the price of a smartphon drops a lot. Recently I find a deal of palm treo 755p with a attractive price $70 instead of $650 at dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?deal_id=73518 It has a decent appearance – fashion, smart, compact! With it, I could surf on internet to enjoy leisure or tackle with business. Wow, wonderful!

By: gk

gk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:42:37 +0000

I hate having my phone conversation interrupted because the phone rebooted or froze. It happenned to me. I see it happenning to my friends. I now have a cheapo phone. A reasonable ultra compact camera. A Transcend mp3 player and a organiser.

By: Ryan Stickney

Ryan Stickney — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:23:09 +0000

For work I’ve used a treo 700p, A blackberry 7250, and a Moto Q I like the features of smart phones, I just still haven’t found one that I like physically. find me a decent looking smart phone and I’ll be happy, until that day comes I’m sticking with a reg phone.