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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I have a cell phone and really don't use it that much. I want to get messages from people, but I want to read them when I have the time, not when they want to send them to me. Having e-mail and some sort of SMS is much better for passing information then having a cell phone.
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While I agree with this philosophy, understand that our shared perspective does not make up the norm. Children and teenagers use every feature of their cellphone: voice and SMS among them. Many business users want to know who is calling them but desire the option to ignore their call and possibly return it later.
To take this argument a little further, most of the individuals who frequent enthusaist sites are likely to be the early adopters but not nearly as likely to be representative of the mainstream user.
Thinking on a 24 year old coworker of mine, I know that he loves to watch his ESPN on his cell phone. However, I doubt that this guy will pay the rumored $2.50 to obtain two copies of the same song: a lowfi version for his cellphone and a hifi version for his PC.
It may actually take a Google, Microsoft, or Apple going into the phone business to break down these superfluous barriers that separate PCs from now-nearly-portable-computer cell phones.