Russell Beattie
He always says something interesting!Regarding the new, gorgeous Nokia 7610:
Outrageous: why couldn't they decide to use SD, or MMC, or even xD? Also, that's a fact about camera usage that I'd definitely agree with — eventually, the difficulty of getting the pictures off the phone, titled, dated, sorted, uploaded and annotated just becomes too annoying, so it's only interesting things that get photographed.Is focused on taking videos, but introduces a new incompatible and smaller-capacity memory format called Mini MMC. (As if MMC isn't bad enough - we want SD card support!!!)
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smart phone users taper off to about 10 photos a week.
Ah, now I understand. Actually, the N-Gage appears to actually be a good device — I just don't play games enough to justify it.The PDF also outlines why even though the N-Gage may be a failure from a sales point of view, the people who did buy an N-Gage have a massive ARPU. Very interesting - it shows that Nokia isn't going to give up on the category. There's an N-Gage 2 in the works already and Nokia realizes that even though the gaming market is a hard nut to crack, if they can find the sweet spot, the carriers are going to love them for it. In the presentaiton Nokia says, for example, that on average about 2-5% of consumers buy Java games, but 50% of N-Gage users buy them. Wow. If you're a carrier, those are the sorts of numbers that make you re-think.
God bless Russell Beattie and his technological commentary.
Also, I really ought to get around to reading Vim as XML Editor, because I do use Vim for everything — writing this blog post, for example. I keep learning new things, and :%s alone makes it wonderful. It just feels so good!
Posted at 2004-03-17 12:22:32 by Richard • Link to Russell Beattie
