Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Mobile Phones...the next trend?
What's the next trend or what consumer product offerings will the mobile phone savvy people of the phils. embrace?
Before there were GLOBE & SMART (and Piltel). You laugh at the mobile phones of those days when you talk about it w/ your friends.
SMS was a HIT! (aka SMS capital of the world!)
MMS?? still struggling for adoption.
The arrival of Feature phones, PDA phones, Camera/Video Phones, SmartPhones, BlackBerry, 3G, iPhone...Oppps I'm getting ahead of myself.
Cellphone flea markets in almost every mall.
Mid-to-High-End mobile phones won't really make it to mainstream so people having two mobile phones were the norm. Mostly retaining their old phones and buying a second one.
When SUN established their position (formerly digitel), they were the preferred second line due to its competitive pricing then its unlimited call & Text.
Dual Sim Holders (Two Sims in one) or MultiLine Sims. The disadvantage of these before, you have to restart your phone to select what sim to use (one at a time). The newest ones enables you to switch lines thru an STK menu.
Now, Live Dual SIM phones. A phone that features using two SIMS at the same time. Will this replace a person's dual phone...err, two phones. If yes, this could justify it's higher price tag. And looking ahead, those two phones will be re-sold and will then be more accessible to the lower markets. (More on Dual sims on next post.)
Before there were GLOBE & SMART (and Piltel). You laugh at the mobile phones of those days when you talk about it w/ your friends.
SMS was a HIT! (aka SMS capital of the world!)
MMS?? still struggling for adoption.
The arrival of Feature phones, PDA phones, Camera/Video Phones, SmartPhones, BlackBerry, 3G, iPhone...Oppps I'm getting ahead of myself.
Cellphone flea markets in almost every mall.
Mid-to-High-End mobile phones won't really make it to mainstream so people having two mobile phones were the norm. Mostly retaining their old phones and buying a second one.
When SUN established their position (formerly digitel), they were the preferred second line due to its competitive pricing then its unlimited call & Text.
Dual Sim Holders (Two Sims in one) or MultiLine Sims. The disadvantage of these before, you have to restart your phone to select what sim to use (one at a time). The newest ones enables you to switch lines thru an STK menu.
Now, Live Dual SIM phones. A phone that features using two SIMS at the same time. Will this replace a person's dual phone...err, two phones. If yes, this could justify it's higher price tag. And looking ahead, those two phones will be re-sold and will then be more accessible to the lower markets. (More on Dual sims on next post.)
Labels: Philippines mobile phone trends
# posted by umberto @ 2:57 PM 
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