Comments on: Mobile Myth Busting http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/ 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: SMS Text News » Nokia World 2006 update… http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-101741 SMS Text News » Nokia World 2006 update… Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:01:32 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-101741 [...] I might be able to blog with a prolific sense of wonder or maybe I’ll need to bottle it all up and blog later on. We’ll see. Standby Huston. [...] [...] I might be able to blog with a prolific sense of wonder or maybe I’ll need to bottle it all up and blog later on. We’ll see. Standby Huston. [...]

]]> By: Leonard Low http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-64099 Leonard Low Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:50:52 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-64099 I agree with Riaz - I consider myself a "mobile native," having had a mobile phone for the past 10 years of my life and practically using them like an extension of my brain... but I hate entering long URLs. Other young mobilists probably have the same view on this... how else do you think TxtSpk has arisen? It's to save the number of keypresses to compose a message (as well as to fit a longer message into the 160 characters in an SMS). I agree with Riaz – I consider myself a “mobile native,” having had a mobile phone for the past 10 years of my life and practically using them like an extension of my brain… but I hate entering long URLs. Other young mobilists probably have the same view on this… how else do you think TxtSpk has arisen? It’s to save the number of keypresses to compose a message (as well as to fit a longer message into the 160 characters in an SMS).

]]> By: Riaz http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-61732 Riaz Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:23:04 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-61732 Hi there, I couldn't help myself on commenting this one... Well, we run a couple of SMS-based service in our market (Mozambique, in Southern Africa) and while I agree that people are getting used to typing withour looking at the keys, there are a couple of issues I would like to point out: 1. It's very different to send a SMS to a person (who can easily forgive use of abbreviations and mistakes) than to an application that is programmed to recognise a specific keyword. 2. Our own experience in our market show a high % of errors when people send SMS-requests for content and voting, more than 20% in fact. 3. Typing in long or complex URL's poses many problems: a. typing mistakes will take the customer nowhere; b. special characters like "/" are quite cumbersome to type in; c. it is quite boring, unless I really really want to get to that page. On point c. above, please take into account that while I may be very motivated to type under the table a long message to my friend, I will not be so inclined to do the same for a URL received from some subscription service. Hi there,

I couldn’t help myself on commenting this one… Well, we run a couple of SMS-based service in our market (Mozambique, in Southern Africa) and while I agree that people are getting used to typing withour looking at the keys, there are a couple of issues I would like to point out:
1. It’s very different to send a SMS to a person (who can easily forgive use of abbreviations and mistakes) than to an application that is programmed to recognise a specific keyword.

2. Our own experience in our market show a high % of errors when people send SMS-requests for content and voting, more than 20% in fact.

3. Typing in long or complex URL’s poses many problems: a. typing mistakes will take the customer nowhere; b. special characters like “/” are quite cumbersome to type in; c. it is quite boring, unless I really really want to get to that page.

On point c. above, please take into account that while I may be very motivated to type under the table a long message to my friend, I will not be so inclined to do the same for a URL received from some subscription service.

]]> By: Text To Screen » Blog Archive » Nokia World 2006 update‚Ķ http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-60878 Text To Screen » Blog Archive » Nokia World 2006 update‚Ķ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:03:48 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-60878 [...] I might be able to blog with a prolific sense of wonder or maybe I’ll need to bottle it all up and blog later on. We’ll see. Standby Huston. [...] [...] I might be able to blog with a prolific sense of wonder or maybe I’ll need to bottle it all up and blog later on. We’ll see. Standby Huston. [...]

]]> By: Jag http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-60160 Jag Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:25:25 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-60160 Aha - so dot mobi *does* have a future then ;-) Aha – so dot mobi *does* have a future then ;-)

]]> By: PanMan http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-60095 PanMan Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:54:13 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-60095 I have send messages, but not that long. But the thing of your quote says: "send or READ". Reading doesn't take long inputs, so that's much easier to do than replying. With the new Gmail client I do read a lot of mail on lost moments, but I rarely reply... I have send messages, but not that long. But the thing of your quote says: “send or READ”. Reading doesn’t take long inputs, so that’s much easier to do than replying. With the new Gmail client I do read a lot of mail on lost moments, but I rarely reply…

]]> By: Owen Jacobs http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/comment-page-1/#comment-59928 Owen Jacobs Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:25:33 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/11/27/mobile-myth-busting/#comment-59928 I've sent SMSs under the table many times at meetings, and I'm 44. As you know, both the display and keys are lit up, so the myth we are really busting here is that it would be impossible to see anything while SMSing under the table. Try it yourself. All in good Xmas spirit. I’ve sent SMSs under the table many times at meetings, and I’m 44.

As you know, both the display and keys are lit up, so the myth we are really busting here is that it would be impossible to see anything while SMSing under the table. Try it yourself.

All in good Xmas spirit.

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