Thread: Firmware to be released Q1 of '10. MMS to be supported.
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2010-01-03 , 23:04
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Originally Posted by mysticrokks View Post
young people want social networking apps..

they will all have phones geared to these sites- they will be posting up countless pics straight to the net each and every day.

people are using IM on there phones more and more each day
Yes, it looks that way for many of them.

Originally Posted by mysticrokks View Post
people are emailing more and more each and every day
Perhaps not. Googling "email obsolete" is quite interesting, since you mentioned young people. In some countries, surveys have shown that young people regard email as something only old people still do. Join the club

Originally Posted by mysticrokks View Post
if you dont believe this fact and that mms will die then i suppose i cant change your backwards views.
Nobody in this thread has disagreed with that.
Only that MMS has not died yet.
It is, after all, awful technology.

Originally Posted by mysticrokks View Post
but trust me sms and mms will be redundant.. its all about being connected .
Sure, but not in the next year.

Originally Posted by mysticrokks View Post
i suppose one of the reasons you havent yet used such functionality on a phone- is simply because this is your first ever phone that has the function(YOU SIMPLY COULDNT DO IT)- alot of us have had smart phones and been doing it for years on years- and know with the masses and the iphone 12 yr old kids and 80 yr old grannies are doing it..
No. I've had 4 other phones over 4 years that could do email and IMs, but it doesn't mean my peers and friends had the facility or had configured and were using it. There are many reasons, some them very practical, like eyesight, dexterity and brain injury problems, which make it impossble using any UI that is not extremely simple, and some of my friends still do not use the internet so it's also very unfamiliar stuff, creating "accounts" and the like.

Some 80 year old grannies love the iPhone, but granny with the shakes who can't hold a cup of tea without spilling it cannot use a touch screen, and uses a big clunky thing with big, easy to see buttons and minimal UI. It can receive MMS of course

There are a lot of you, and a lot of me, but don't be blinded by selection bias. What you see is a highly skewed sample, and so is what I see. Neither is representative. Both of us are users the N900 could support well.