Buying a new mobile

I posted a blog post yesterday about the mobile I have ordered. I have received some feedback on it that I would like to address. First of all this isn’t a multimedia phone. I don’t need another multimedia phone – I need a one with the ability to be my work phone – that equals calls and SMS.

The battery information for the Samsung C5212:

• 600minuttes talk time (on 2G)
• 280hours standby

Compared the iPhone (3G S) have the following:

• 720minuttes talk time (on 2G)
• 300minuttes talk time (on 3G)
• Up to 300 hours standby

So with 2G enabled on both phones the IPhone is in the lead on battery usage – but you don’t put your iPhone in 2G-mode. And you don’t need an iPhone if you just use it for calls. But if you do the size of the phone will be a key factor when you compare it.

• Samsung C5212: 98.2g (112.7 x 48.6 x 14.3mm)
• iPhone 3G S: 135g (115.5 x 62.1 x 12.3 mm)

 

And the iPhone is 37.6% heavier. But of course it is a multimedia tool – not just a phone. But that is not what I need at work. The other comment was the design of the phone. “It looks like something from nineties”. Do you remember what the mobiles looked like back then? This phone isn’t a fashion statement. It isn’t a status symbol like some people says the Apple product is. It is a practical mobile with one key function – and that is the possibility to have two SIM-cards.

I think we’ll see that mobiles will be even more differentiated as we go forward. Very basic phones will be available at a very low cost, the smart mobiles will be smarter and the multimedia phones will get the power of computers and cameras. And we’ll see products like this that have the possibility to fix a specific need. If this functionality gets popular – then Nokia and Apple can’t afford not adopting this; the problem is that this functionally isn’t something the operators would like to sponsor as it enables the end user be unfaithful to the mobile carrier.