Comments on: The BlackBerry As An Anti-Status Symbol http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SMS Text News » Getting a PROPER real time mobile messaging service http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-101740 SMS Text News » Getting a PROPER real time mobile messaging service Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:38:51 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-101740 [...] Suffice to say, Blackberry is a dead man walking. Incidentally, check out Carlo’s The Blackberry As an Anti Status Symbol. Carlo = hitting nail on head. Every time I see a poor sod glued to a 7,000 series Blackberry, I think ‘lower-middle-management’. Not good. 8000 series Blackberry, not as bad… [...] [...] Suffice to say, Blackberry is a dead man walking. Incidentally, check out Carlo’s The Blackberry As an Anti Status Symbol. Carlo = hitting nail on head. Every time I see a poor sod glued to a 7,000 series Blackberry, I think ‘lower-middle-management’. Not good. 8000 series Blackberry, not as bad… [...]

]]> By: Victor http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-45013 Victor Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:45:48 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-45013 OK - I hear in Europe the "cool" thing is you put your phone down on the table during meetings to show you have a "status" mobile device. (You soon find out putting a mobile on vibrate and setting it down on the table disturbs everyone worse than a ring does!) I also hear it varies with audience whether an email-centric phone (eg smartphone) is "cool". Here in US many execs carry a Q or Treo, Blackberry etc for mobile email access. My boss runs our entire US operation and carries both a Q and a black Razr, which I assume he uses so he can talk without a headset while reading his email on the Q, and for more casual use like on weekends (while playing golf, etc). Another thing - if you're an athlete, show me how you carry a Q while running. Maybe you can carry a Blackberry Pearl, but not a Treo! I think the Krzr shows designers are becoming sensitive to the idea that not everyone wants a phone which looks like it was made for Star Trek fans. Case in point: I avoided the Razr because I found it too cold-looking, too wide, and the keyboard was clumsy. Instead I've been pretty happy with a Moto V551, which happens to have almost identical functionality and interface. Of course I've added a number of shortcuts, sorted menus where I could, etc. to make it more usable. I don't carry my phone in my pocket, however - I use a soft color-matched "holster" sleeve on my belt (rather than a click-in plastic one) which both looks better, and protects the phone if it falls off my belt. OK – I hear in Europe the “cool” thing is you put your phone down on the table during meetings to show you have a “status” mobile device. (You soon find out putting a mobile on vibrate and setting it down on the table disturbs everyone worse than a ring does!) I also hear it varies with audience whether an email-centric phone (eg smartphone) is “cool”.

Here in US many execs carry a Q or Treo, Blackberry etc for mobile email access. My boss runs our entire US operation and carries both a Q and a black Razr, which I assume he uses so he can talk without a headset while reading his email on the Q, and for more casual use like on weekends (while playing golf, etc).

Another thing – if you’re an athlete, show me how you carry a Q while running. Maybe you can carry a Blackberry Pearl, but not a Treo!

I think the Krzr shows designers are becoming sensitive to the idea that not everyone wants a phone which looks like it was made for Star Trek fans. Case in point: I avoided the Razr because I found it too cold-looking, too wide, and the keyboard was clumsy. Instead I’ve been pretty happy with a Moto V551, which happens to have almost identical functionality and interface. Of course I’ve added a number of shortcuts, sorted menus where I could, etc. to make it more usable. I don’t carry my phone in my pocket, however – I use a soft color-matched “holster” sleeve on my belt (rather than a click-in plastic one) which both looks better, and protects the phone if it falls off my belt.

]]> By: Gabriel Brown http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41861 Gabriel Brown Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:41:58 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41861 The guy from the article gets it: Phones are uncool. Geek chic went out with bubble. But what can you do? You’ve gotta have one. And by definition most people aren’t cool, so the problem kind of goes away. The guy from the article gets it: Phones are uncool.

Geek chic went out with bubble.

But what can you do? You’ve gotta have one.

And by definition most people aren’t cool, so the problem kind of goes away.

]]> By: Anon http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41670 Anon Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:29:07 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41670 Agree with the last post. I am in sales, and a smartphone (Treo, BlackBerry or Symbian OS) is essential to check email and access other office applications on the go. And let's face it, everyone has a boss - even the CEO has to answer to the board and shareholders. Being able to be reached does not indicate you are a slave - how silly. Agree with the last post. I am in sales, and a smartphone (Treo, BlackBerry or Symbian OS) is essential to check email and access other office applications on the go. And let’s face it, everyone has a boss – even the CEO has to answer to the board and shareholders. Being able to be reached does not indicate you are a slave – how silly.

]]> By: Text To Screen » Blog Archive » Getting a PROPER real time mobile messaging service http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41650 Text To Screen » Blog Archive » Getting a PROPER real time mobile messaging service Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:11:09 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41650 [...] Suffice to say, Blackberry is a dead man walking. Incidentally, check out Carlo’s The Blackberry As an Anti Status Symbol. Carlo = hitting nail on head. Every time I see a poor sod glued to a 7,000 series Blackberry, I think ‘lower-middle-management’. Not good. 8000 series Blackberry, not as bad… [...] [...] Suffice to say, Blackberry is a dead man walking. Incidentally, check out Carlo’s The Blackberry As an Anti Status Symbol. Carlo = hitting nail on head. Every time I see a poor sod glued to a 7,000 series Blackberry, I think ‘lower-middle-management’. Not good. 8000 series Blackberry, not as bad… [...]

]]> By: Joe Pemberton http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41561 Joe Pemberton Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:39:24 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41561 In the US it's very common to see mid-level and upper-level executives with Blackberries or email devices (the Treo is seen as a cooler device than the Blackberry, but the latter is more ubiquitous). Email-ready devices are a given among traveling, business-class people. They can't rely on having to find a wi-fi hot spot to check something as basic as email. In the US it’s very common to see mid-level and upper-level executives with Blackberries or email devices (the Treo is seen as a cooler device than the Blackberry, but the latter is more ubiquitous). Email-ready devices are a given among traveling, business-class people. They can’t rely on having to find a wi-fi hot spot to check something as basic as email.

]]> By: Carlos Giraldo http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41538 Carlos Giraldo Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:36:22 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41538 The article may have a point about the the Blackberry. I don't know if you can make the argument for every other PDA other outthere, but maybe my following statement will support it. In tech schools young adults in college are raving about the Moto Q and they're going out and purchasing them, but if you're in school doesn't that mean you'll be in the market for a job, so you're not really a big shot? I also don't perceive to get an extra attention when I pull out my Blackberry in public or at diner. The only attention is from my wife whe she saids the following "Put your gameboy away and focus on the family!" The article may have a point about the the Blackberry. I don’t know if you can make the argument for every other PDA other outthere, but maybe my following statement will support it. In tech schools young adults in college are raving about the Moto Q and they’re going out and purchasing them, but if you’re in school doesn’t that mean you’ll be in the market for a job, so you’re not really a big shot?

I also don’t perceive to get an extra attention when I pull out my Blackberry in public or at diner. The only attention is from my wife whe she saids the following “Put your gameboy away and focus on the family!”

]]> By: Werner http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41505 Werner Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:36:32 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41505 It's a simple culture issue. In India, if you had a Blackberry, it shows you as someone in a well paying job. Since England, from what I saw, is more about independence, and the need to turn technology into an enabler, rather than an ornament,... they prefer to only keep a blackberry if they need it, and would prefer to keep a normal phone, for when they don't need it. It’s a simple culture issue.

In India, if you had a Blackberry, it shows you as someone in a well paying job.

Since England, from what I saw, is more about independence, and the need to turn technology into an enabler, rather than an ornament,… they prefer to only keep a blackberry if they need it, and would prefer to keep a normal phone, for when they don’t need it.

]]> By: Carlo Longino http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41493 Carlo Longino Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:12:16 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41493 So that means all phone designers are Trekkies? Seems like a pretty hasty generalization to me. (Also never mind that the clamshell design makes sense given the shape of the human head and placement of ears and mouth, while Star Trek communicators weren't used as such) So that means all phone designers are Trekkies? Seems like a pretty hasty generalization to me. (Also never mind that the clamshell design makes sense given the shape of the human head and placement of ears and mouth, while Star Trek communicators weren’t used as such)

]]> By: Jason Devitt http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/comment-page-1/#comment-41482 Jason Devitt Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:24 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/10/31/the-blackberry-as-an-anti-status-symbol/#comment-41482 I am afraid he has a point about Star Trek, at least when it comes to clamshells. Why do you think the first clamshell phone was called the StarTAC? http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123950-page,2/article.html And the first Windows Mobile clamshell phone is called the HTC StarTrek? http://news.softpedia.com/news/Qtek-S8500-review-35509.shtml I am afraid he has a point about Star Trek, at least when it comes to clamshells.

Why do you think the first clamshell phone was called the StarTAC?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123950-page,2/article.html

And the first Windows Mobile clamshell phone is called the HTC StarTrek?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Qtek-S8500-review-35509.shtml

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