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Originally Posted by HarryT
Of course basic phones have SMS, a phone book, GPRS, etc, (because that's all a standard part of the phone system) ...
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Yes HarryT, I take you very literally...and also very serious too
Why shouldn't I? I don't believe that SMS has ever been directly connected to the task of phonecalls (talk, conversation)...not even a phonebook are!
But today - as you say - SMS and phonebooks are standard parts.
The point I like to make is, that offcourse reading and talking are the main 'basics' of the devices...or at least it
was.
But as the SMS feature had an unpredictable but huge impact to the salescurve of mobile phones (actually SMS was 'the' application that boosted the sale, mainly pushed forward by teenagers), I'm very careful not to state what the future 'standard parts' of an ebook could turn out to be.
Actually we all have our "whitles" but not all blow it out hard and loud
And perhaps it's all wrong to talk about an e"book" reader at all..?
It's a multi-functional portable device.
And we are yet to find the main selling point.