The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
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The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
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Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#2I was just reading about Hecl (http://hecl.org/) yesterday and wondering whether it was an obsolete market due to the advent of the iPhone and Android (and regardless of the fact that I have a dumb phone, because when it comes to money outlay I'm a way late adopter) - and here comes Jacques to tell me it's not.
Interesting.
Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#32 problems I see with this market:
1. It's getting smaller. Maybe not right now - I don't know the numbers, but I could imagine that as more of the developing world gets 'dumb' phones, the proportion of dumb to smart phones will actually increase. However, long term, it's a shrinking market. To be fair, you could say that about nearly anything. Eventually there will be a disruption or a move to a newer technology. In this case, that movement is already happening, however.
2. Will 'dumb' phone users spend money like 'smartphone' users? If the point is just to make your app/site accessible to those users and gain market share, then it may not matter. But if you want to sell them anything, it very well may.
Regardless, the recommendation to "ensure that your web-based applications are compatible with Myriads [sic] browser" is sound and one we'd all do well to heed, if the market-share numbers make sense for you.
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#4I don't really understand - they've got an application that will run android apps on feature phones and possibly dumb phones? It is really hard to understand how that could work very well at all - wouldn't those phones generally lack the ram and cpu needed? Would they be replacing all the UI widgets etc with simpler ones and adjusting how much is shown on the screen at once? Maybe it's actually a porting tool - that would seem to make a bunch more sense to me.
Can anyone find a link explaining the technology more? Going over their website I can't seem to find evidence of the product at all. Maybe I'm not awake enough.
Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#5I think the relevance of technology like this is driven by the price floors of smartphones vs. not-so-smart phones.
A pre-paid phone somewhat similar to the once $300+ Motorola Razr is like $20 at Wal-Mart. If a low-rent Android device is priced similar in a few years, skinnyed down mobile software won't matter.
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Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#7The dumb phones of tomorrow are going to be the smart phones of today.
In other words. That superpower is bound to loose it's status unless it's able adopt to that mindset.
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#8The Myriad Browser on my dumbphone wasn't too good, and it was also slow. Opera Mini (I used version 4) is faster (since it uses compression through Opera's servers) and has an overall nicer browsing experience.
Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#92 problems I see with this market: 1. It's getting smaller. Maybe not right now - I don't know the numbers, but I could imagine that as more of the developing world gets 'dumb' phones, the proportion of dumb to smart phones will actually increase. However, long term, it's a shrinking market. To be fair, you could say that about nearly anything. Eventually there will be a disruption or a move to a newer technology. In…
I think the argument that dumb phones are a huge growth market in the developing world is flawed. It's staggaring how many people have dumbphones already. I suspect the dumber of dumbphones in use will never double again.
Smartphones still have headroom to grow 10 or 20x.
Re: The mobile phone superpower you have never heard of
#10I think the relevance of technology like this is driven by the price floors of smartphones vs. not-so-smart phones. A pre-paid phone somewhat similar to the once $300+ Motorola Razr is like $20 at Wal-Mart. If a low-rent Android device is priced similar in a few years, skinnyed down mobile software won't matter.
RAZRs were just over $500 when they initially came out in 2004.
I went into an AT&T store for an unrelated issue and there was literally a line out the door for people willing to pay out insane amounts of money for a status statement. I had a Nokia 3620 or something that would stomp circles around the RAZR, & I paid hundreds less.