Russell is SSSSOOOO right about mobile usage

Having a great cell phone with a nice screen changes your life. And your usage habits. Most of what I use my data plan is data too. Why? Getting nice RSS aggregators for phones isn’t easy and they aren’t well known yet. Plus, there aren’t enough apps like Microsoft Research’s traffic application (that, I learned tonight, shows you live traffic camera pictures, that is so awesome!)

Anyway, all this is to point to Russell Beattie’s post about a Nokia presentation about how people use new cell phones. Russ is so right and we are so clueless about the usage that’s changing.

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15 thoughts on “Russell is SSSSOOOO right about mobile usage

  1. I really feel I should point out, this shows a very factual breakdown of how data is use, and I think its more telling that messaging is so high relativly.

    SMS and MMS etc are always going to use a fraction of the data that a web browser will, and looking through the data it shows people with slower connections browse less, and people with faster browse more. Or actually does it show people with faster connections look at more pages more frequently, and is that because they can?

    In fact I think the larger question should be what length of time users use these various services. It would be interesting to know the number of sessions and length of these sessions, for Messaging compared to Browsing.

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  2. I really feel I should point out, this shows a very factual breakdown of how data is use, and I think its more telling that messaging is so high relativly.

    SMS and MMS etc are always going to use a fraction of the data that a web browser will, and looking through the data it shows people with slower connections browse less, and people with faster browse more. Or actually does it show people with faster connections look at more pages more frequently, and is that because they can?

    In fact I think the larger question should be what length of time users use these various services. It would be interesting to know the number of sessions and length of these sessions, for Messaging compared to Browsing.

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  3. Germany is awful in regards to flat rates for mobiles – and prices are too expensiv for moblogging and such.

    I just retrieved fotos from my phone from December in London which I could have uploaded in a second if the price would not be so expensive.

    Now, when going over to the US in March, I would like to use my mobile phone for lookups of information on the net because I don’t know what everything to try and store on my pda and or print out. 😦

    I never in my life send out an MMS and I don’t fon very much, because it is too expensive or do SMS.

    So when people argue about “well, they don’t use the services now, why should we invest” I can tell you: I would spend money _through_ being connected not because of being able to connect. I pay a flatrate at home, I want the same with mobile.

    And oh boy, how i would use them. Show me the plazes around me where I can spend money, baby! :))

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  4. Germany is awful in regards to flat rates for mobiles – and prices are too expensiv for moblogging and such.

    I just retrieved fotos from my phone from December in London which I could have uploaded in a second if the price would not be so expensive.

    Now, when going over to the US in March, I would like to use my mobile phone for lookups of information on the net because I don’t know what everything to try and store on my pda and or print out. 😦

    I never in my life send out an MMS and I don’t fon very much, because it is too expensive or do SMS.

    So when people argue about “well, they don’t use the services now, why should we invest” I can tell you: I would spend money _through_ being connected not because of being able to connect. I pay a flatrate at home, I want the same with mobile.

    And oh boy, how i would use them. Show me the plazes around me where I can spend money, baby! :))

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  5. Does your phone have a slider switch on it that disables all the buttons?

    My cell phone is constantly getting its ring volume turned off in my pocket, taking pictures, etc. Crappy design. At least this is a flip phone, previous non-flip also made calls.

    Yes I know you can do some kind of “software lock” thing. It takes too long (hold down the key for 1-2 seconds to activate – enter a sequence to deactivate).

    Apple solved this problem in the iPod with a little slider switch. I would buy a cell phone that has such a switch – why do they not get it?

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  6. Does your phone have a slider switch on it that disables all the buttons?

    My cell phone is constantly getting its ring volume turned off in my pocket, taking pictures, etc. Crappy design. At least this is a flip phone, previous non-flip also made calls.

    Yes I know you can do some kind of “software lock” thing. It takes too long (hold down the key for 1-2 seconds to activate – enter a sequence to deactivate).

    Apple solved this problem in the iPod with a little slider switch. I would buy a cell phone that has such a switch – why do they not get it?

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  7. Innocent: mine has a “lock” button that locks everything. I always hit it before putting my phone into my pocket.

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  8. Innocent: mine has a “lock” button that locks everything. I always hit it before putting my phone into my pocket.

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  9. I have / had a Smartphone SMT5600, (before getting a broken JASJAR from PDC) and found that the “lock” button was the # key (IIRC). Problem was, merely putting it in my pocket accidently hit it sometimes and defeated the purpose.

    I found the workaround to use a code lock, rather than the built-in # lock.

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  10. I have / had a Smartphone SMT5600, (before getting a broken JASJAR from PDC) and found that the “lock” button was the # key (IIRC). Problem was, merely putting it in my pocket accidently hit it sometimes and defeated the purpose.

    I found the workaround to use a code lock, rather than the built-in # lock.

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  11. Mine does too – I have to hold it down for about 2 seconds before it works. Unlocking requires a multiple key combo and I can’t do it while the phone is ringing (don’t technically have to but its annoying).

    Slider switch is the bomb. Wish there were a cell phone with one.

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  12. Mine does too – I have to hold it down for about 2 seconds before it works. Unlocking requires a multiple key combo and I can’t do it while the phone is ringing (don’t technically have to but its annoying).

    Slider switch is the bomb. Wish there were a cell phone with one.

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