In U.S., cell phone users are often all talk

They continue to think of a cell phone as a device for talking, not text messaging. Marketers, however, hope to change that soon.
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[Earl Benser]

We have a solution in search of a problem....

Historically a telephone is a verbal communication device. The
typical display screen is hardly big enough to dispay a few
telephone numbers, and the typical speaker sucks for anything
other than minimal voice quality. A person would have to be a
myopic idiot to contemplate surfing the web with a cell phone-
that's like trying real surfing with a bottle cap. It just don't work.
And as a music receiver, a cell phone is wiped out by either
satellite radio, the iPod, or both.

I can understand the cell phone people desperately trying to
invent new revenue streams, but now they are getting ridiculous.
Maybe if they get really inventive, a cell phone could also seerve
as a portable beverage cooler.

Makes as much sense........

[crichton007]

They Don't Get It

Sprint has been on the rebound because they understand how people want to buy additional services. Make these data services flat rate at low prices and even people who would hardly use it will sign up.