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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
Dennis:
Sounds like you might one of the fifteen people who would actually buy a Palm Foleo.
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Or a Celio Redfly ...
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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
Personally, I will be very surprised if there are still dumbphones available in another ten years.
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You will be surprised: do you seriously think that everybody in third-world-markets will a) have enough money to buy a smartphone compared to a dumb phone and b) will be even literate enough to do so (especially in markets where there are no phones in the major native languages and fonts - e.g. Ethiopia/Amharic). I have heard of plans by Nokia to produce dumb phone for the Indian market where the user interface is entirely in symbols and numbers only in order to cater to illiterate users.
So dumb phones will be available in ten years - even in developed markets. I personally know guys who carry around 3-4 mobile phones around: One for business/work, one (or two) for their wives and one for the girl-friend. What I observed what the "work" phone was the smartphone and the other phones were (small) dumb phones.
cklammer