How many friends, which are smart phone / or mms capable phone users do you have?

[Guile]

I remember when I everyone was using either 5110 or 3210 back then, I was a Motorola Startac X user. Sure, the startac was a cooler model back then, but it kinda makes me alone.

Yeah sure, the startac gives you an edge or something like that. It's smaller, and more beatiful, but its dual line screen makes me unable to appreciate the graphic text messages that were common back then on Nokia phone users.

Back then the mobile race was about making the smallest phone model. I think Motorola was winning with its V1000 model (tama ba yung model number?).

But with the introduction of the mms capable phones, and later, the smart phones, the race to the making of miniature phones was put to a stop. Right now, size is no longer a major issue. Nowadays, those that give importance to phone size are mostly females who want a slim sexy phone (which is understandable).

The smart phone was my next dream phone. It would soon replace my Nokia 3350 (my phone after the startac).

But I realized my lesson. I would no longer be too individualstic. I would need a certain degree of conformity.

Maganda din yung marami-rami kayong users nung phone. You can maximize the benefits of your phone since there are many people that you can ask about.

So what did I buy? The obvious choice - Nokia 6600, arguably Nokia's most prominent model yet.

Even though Nokia 7200 is the newer, classier, model, I don't think it would generate the size of the 6600 crowd. So I chose the 6600 even with only a 1000 peso difference.

Sa laki ba naman ng 6600 thread, I expected that a good fraction of my friends would own this phone or something similar (like any of the 60 series phone).

So for the first time, I tried to verify my friends' phone model (dati kasi wala lang akong paki). I need to know which of them own a smart phone or an mms capable phone para malaman ko kung sino yung pwede kong mapadalhan ng mms or mapagtanungan about the technical aspect of the series 60 phone.

Out of the 100 entries in my phone book, I've only verified at least 10 mms capable phone users.

10%???? Wow! Baka di ko pa lang natatanong lahat.

Out of those 10, 7 are actual smart phone users (2 cousins, 3 classmates, 2 friends).

And out of those 7 smart phone users, only one has a real interest about the technical bruhaha of the phone.

And he's a PEXER who owns a 6600. Thank God, may natirang isa pa.

Maganda bang representation tong contacts ko? I mean, I don't want to believe that only 10% is into the smart phone/mms compatible phone craze. I expect something higher - which is around 50%.

That's why I bought the phone. I'm looking for conformity, more than individuality. Since I thought everbody is into smart phones, I might as well get one myself. But 10%?????

So, if it's true that only a small percentage of the population has gotten into the smart phone craze, What's the reason for that?

a. Smart phones are expensive?

b. Smart phones have a truckload of cool features that people don't really need to improve communication with someone?

(For example, why would anyone give a damn about a phone that takes a megapixel shot (which is larger than anyone's desktop monitor) resolution, unless he's a professional photographer? The feature is cool, but you don't really need it)

Come to think of it, most of the features of smart phones aren't directed towards improving communications.

Sure, may megapixel phone ka nga, but the limit of mms is only 100 kb.

Maybe it's time for phones to get into the basics--which is to have more means of enhancing communications.

[cjgambit]

hmm... most people on my contact lists uses nokia series 40(3300, 5100, 6100, 6108, 6200, 6220, 6230 6610, 6650, 6800, 6820, 7210, 7250, 7250,etc) mobiles. while only 11 has series 60(3650, 3660, 6600, 7650, 7600,etc) mobiles. and 7 of them use their mobile as merely glorried phones. no apps/wallpapers (well, one or two has downloaded some).

[Tmac_1]

5 out of my 7 kabarkadas use mms phones

[im_a_chick]

all my ka-barkadas (both high school and college) have mms capable phones. sa family ko, ganun rin. most of those sa phone book ko, i know eh mms capable rin phones nila. :)

[sweetpinkkiss]

I guess it also depends on where majority of your contacts stand. Like, are majority of them college students who still rely on their parent's hard-earned money to survive, as well as for gimiks? Or are they business executives who almost always need their smartphones with them for their business as well as personal use? or are they merely simple persons with simple personalities who would just like to have a phone for texting and calling, not minding all the other possibilities that their phone can give? :)

I remember last year, my blockmates aren't all that fussed about what their phone models are... which shocked me a bit because all along I thought people from my school go for the trendiest, the coolest and the most popular of everything...

I have a Nokia 6600... Which is a really good phone. Some of my friends have already upgraded to Nokia Series 60 phones, like Nokia 3650 or Nokia 7650... We share mms pics, graphics, cool wav and polyphonic tones... We laugh at each other's cool pictures taken from our own phones... We joke at each other's cool wav tones... But when we're apart, we don't usually text each other often... nor call each other often. In a way, having a smart phone doesn't give us the assurance that our communication time with other people will rise. :D

* just my two cents! * :)