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Originally Posted by tso View Post
btw, have anyone else noticed that the real mobile action is in africa, south asia and eastern europe? all areas where there is no big legacy installations of wired networks, be their phone or otherwise?

hell, didnt nokia launch a payment system for their S40 phones specifically aimed at african nations?
Yeah, I just read something about that. And wandering slightly off-topic, (in this off-topic section), I read an article in New Scientist a year or two ago, or rather, an interview. There was this Nokia researcher who traveled around the world to learn what people would like the phone to do. And in Africa he got this great idea.. a phone could have two separate phone lists, because in an African household people would often have to share a single phone and it would be nice to be able to keep their phone list separate.

Sure, that's a great idea, but why didn't it occur to the researcher that this is a great idea everywhere, and it's a major irritant with phones in the workplace that the phone list doesn't have categories (which is all it takes). Get a phone, insert the vcard file with the company numbers, add a new number now and then (business associates, your mother, whatever). Here comes an updated company phone list, if you try to install it you actually get duplicates instead of updates. Only way forward is to scratch the original list, lose your manually inserted numbers. With categories, as on a Palm PDA, you can do such things on groups of numbers. You can also insert numbers to a specific category simply buy installing a vcard file with name category.vcard. So, get me that Africa-optimised phone please - it's optimised for me too.
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