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November 26, 2005
Other device notes
Other device notes: Two other trends which struck me, over the past two weeks in Korea and Hong Kong. One was that I saw more people using full-time electronic prosthetics, usually a phone earpiece perpetually attached, instead of used intermittently as I see in San Francisco. People in clubs always had their earpiece on, and were taking & making calls continually. I didn't see large numbers of people walking around talking to themselves, but did see a shift from using a phone to being a phone. One other pattern struck me by its absence: I still didn't come across much use of the pocket phone to interact with environmental computers, whether placing orders in a restaurant or interacting with a point-of-purchase display or entering the subway. DoCoMo in Japan has been doing a lot with electronic wallets, but we still don't have these pocket computers interacting with other nearby devices yet.
Posted by John Dowdell at November 26, 2005 08:23 AM
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