Comments on: The iPod Influence http://gigaom.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stephanie Rieger http://gigaom.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110632 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:39:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110632 It’s interesting to see the “phones as fashion” thing starting to catch on in North America. I spent some time in Asia over the past few years looking at the way people use mobile devices. In Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, phones are marketed very much for looks. And marketing is huge. Posters, post-cards, in-mall displays with sound and music shows to boot. On my last trip I brought back about 40 marketing post-cards for Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson phones. Each one for a different model. Each one totally branded and targeted to the target user for each model. By comparison, the North American, “buy the latest Verizon or T Mobile handsets (“oh BTW it happens to be a Nokia”) doesn’t even come close.

FYI – in the past 6 months, the most lustoworthy items in SEA seem to be laptops and PDAs with WI-FI. They’re everywhere. And fashion phones are slowly becoming old news. Why spend $600 on a phone when you can spend $800 on a laptop with Skype. Enter the Nokia 770…things could get interesting!

]]> By: Cell Phone News + Reviews http://gigaom.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110631 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:13:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110631 Why Did the ROKR Fail?

The ROKR failed because it was crippled and ugly. As plain and simple as that. There was nothing about that phone that resembled the sleek, industrial look of the RAZR or the iPod. 100 songs? Come on. What about…

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110630 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:26:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/11/14/the-ipod-influence/#comment-110630 The 8801 looks so sweet, I just wish it wasn’t so darn expensive

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