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Vodafones product page for it: http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/vod...
Seems like a pretty half-assed product. "Vodafone 555 Blue", really, that's what you're gonna call it? Anyone remember the Motorola ROKR? Yeah, exactly...
That was the phone for a while.
“We hope to sell millions . . . Anything below millions will be disappointing.” I think they will be disappointed. I can't name a smart phone where it takes more than about 2 keystrokes to do anything you want on Facebook.
“We hope to sell millions . . . Anything below millions will be disappointing.” I think they will be disappointed. I can't name a smart phone where it takes more than about 2 keystrokes to do anything you want on Facebook.
Vodafones product page for it: http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/vod...
Seems like a pretty half-assed product. "Vodafone 555 Blue", really, that's what you're gonna call it? Anyone remember the Motorola ROKR? Yeah, exactly...
What was special about it? It had a dedicated key to bring up iTunes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_ROKR_E1)
I had the same thought: the OP's venture between Vodafone and Facebook doesn't feel like the "Facebook phone" that has been rumored for a while… but who knows, Facebook doesn't make hardware so they probably don't have the same opportunities that Apple had and they probably want the maximum availability, even if half-assed. (I would think it's harder to completely screw up an experience around posting a status than around managing and syncing a music library)
Imagine a phone built purely for Facebook, which is built to their specs (low battery usage) and uses half the bandwidth of current smartphones when it comes to updating FB status, uploading pictures etc. Facebook could have a winner in a country like India, where bandwidth still sucks and there is a large FB user population. A cheap subsidized phone, and maybe even with subsidized bandwidth usage (similar to Amazon…
“We hope to sell millions . . . Anything below millions will be disappointing.” I think they will be disappointed. I can't name a smart phone where it takes more than about 2 keystrokes to do anything you want on Facebook.
“We hope to sell millions . . . Anything below millions will be disappointing.” I think they will be disappointed. I can't name a smart phone where it takes more than about 2 keystrokes to do anything you want on Facebook.
Lots of people don't want smart phones for various reasons, lots of people buy them and then regret it like I did. The market is pretty varied.
I've gone back to my old Sony because of battery life. I kept forgetting to put my Android on charge every night, next day its flat. Totally worthless phone IMO, gave it away.
That said these types of gimmicks usually do fail pretty hard. So disappointment maybe ahead.
Vodafones product page for it: http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/vod...
Seems like a pretty half-assed product. "Vodafone 555 Blue", really, that's what you're gonna call it? Anyone remember the Motorola ROKR? Yeah, exactly...
If this is the same type of move by Facebook, good on em... sometimes you learn best from failures.