Comments on: Survey Says “Few” Cameraphone Users Actually Send Photos http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/02/survey-says-few-cameraphone-users-actually-send-photos/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Ian Wood http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/02/survey-says-few-cameraphone-users-actually-send-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-4559 Ian Wood Wed, 03 May 2006 12:06:58 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/02/survey-says-few-cameraphone-users-actually-send-photos/#comment-4559 I can remember an early conversation with the team at Cognima saying that with their application installed on early Camera Phones Orange were experiencing a five/six fold increase in MMS in a trail. However the Operator did not wish to install the software and it was not until ShoZu that users gota system that allows the easy sending of pictures. I think the problem is that the Networks are interested only in selling big buckets of minutes and thus are not prepared to invest in product development as a time when they are spending so much on network build out. The problem is that if they are unable to show users what we could use our phones for other than voice were are going to stick with what we know. For example I have had the ability to make video calls now for 18 months and in that time I have done so only four times. I few of those in my address book now also have 3G handsets but most do not. The same was true with MMS, when we first tried it it was a failure and so we no longer use the service. I can remember an early conversation with the team at Cognima saying that with their application installed on early Camera Phones Orange were experiencing a five/six fold increase in MMS in a trail. However the Operator did not wish to install the software and it was not until ShoZu that users gota system that allows the easy sending of pictures.

I think the problem is that the Networks are interested only in selling big buckets of minutes and thus are not prepared to invest in product development as a time when they are spending so much on network build out. The problem is that if they are unable to show users what we could use our phones for other than voice were are going to stick with what we know.

For example I have had the ability to make video calls now for 18 months and in that time I have done so only four times. I few of those in my address book now also have 3G handsets but most do not. The same was true with MMS, when we first tried it it was a failure and so we no longer use the service.

]]> By: Markku Niiranen http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/02/survey-says-few-cameraphone-users-actually-send-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-4558 Markku Niiranen Wed, 03 May 2006 11:44:30 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/02/survey-says-few-cameraphone-users-actually-send-photos/#comment-4558 Some suggest that the whole OMA MMS is designed by technically oriented strangers - those odd people we also call engineers. Easy to understand why most end users have failed to set up his/her terminal to sent and receive MMS, not talking about how many of us really knows how much this would then cost. Just few weeks ago I bumbed into a tiny nice chat program, available to symbian platform, so I installed it into my GPRS enabled camera phone and gave it a try. Simsalabim! In less than 10 minutes I was connected to my chat friends at Yahoo, AOL and gtalk. The client also provided a great MMI for making shots with my build-in camera & uploading them to my friends. Possessing a camera enabled MMS phone for over 2 years, this was the first moment I felt that sending pictures makes sense, was easy and from the data counter I could understand what were the costs associated using it. Will be interesting to see if IMS based applications *coming out the door* can really fix the picture messaging hole left by miss engineered MMS feature. I suggest that after WLAN (at home office) becomes a standard feature of tech-freak's phone, IMS will take off with all nice chatting, streaming, music and picture messaging. Some suggest that the whole OMA MMS is designed by technically oriented strangers – those odd people we also call engineers. Easy to understand why most end users have failed to set up his/her terminal to sent and receive MMS, not talking about how many of us really knows how much this would then cost.

Just few weeks ago I bumbed into a tiny nice chat program, available to symbian platform, so I installed it into my GPRS enabled camera phone and gave it a try. Simsalabim! In less than 10 minutes I was connected to my chat friends at Yahoo, AOL and gtalk. The client also provided a great MMI for making shots with my build-in camera & uploading them to my friends. Possessing a camera enabled MMS phone for over 2 years, this was the first moment I felt that sending pictures makes sense, was easy and from the data counter I could understand what were the costs associated using it.

Will be interesting to see if IMS based applications *coming out the door* can really fix the picture messaging hole left by miss engineered MMS feature. I suggest that after WLAN (at home office) becomes a standard feature of tech-freak’s phone, IMS will take off with all nice chatting, streaming, music and picture messaging.

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