Juergen Specht wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> Thursday, July 19, 2001, you wrote:
> > To me, however, a bigger question still looms. Is video
> > a mobile phone killer app?
>
> actually this is a good question. I kept an eye on this
> technology since a very long time and saw it fail several
> times. Wireless video can be possible a chance for it, but
> I am skeptical (even if I KNOW that the technology actually
> exists).
>
> Some food for thought:
Drivers already have/cause enough trouble while talking on the phone...
just imagine them watching one.
(which ultimately is the primary reason that such devices are doomed
here in the US, too much interference with the American dream....)
>
> If a phone rings, just pick it up and hold it on your ear.
> You can be naked, undressed or nude and nobody will find
> out. Very convenient.
>
> If a video phone rings and you take a video call, people see
> you actually. This can be good or bad, but the worst thing
> is that you have to change your phone behaviour. A normal
> phone just request that you talk in a microphone and hold a
> speaker on your ear, you can eat, drink, stare into a
> computer screen, write, dress yourself, undress yourself,
> drive, drill in your nose, whatever at the same time.
>
> With video phones you are limited. If you hold the phone on
> your ear, people can see if you washed yourself properly. If
> you want to use it as a phone, you have to stare in a screen
> and you possible have to talk louder in a microphone, since
> the v-phone is in front of you. A headset with microphone is
> not an option here, since it is a separate device which
> people tend to lose over time. Polite Japanese people don't
> like to talk loudly, so they can not "hide" this phone
> easily. So all the advantages of using a normal phone are
> gone.
>
> I wonder why people should give up habits they developed
> the last 100years?
>
> So what are the advantages of video phones...how about
> underestimated business oriented schoolgirls? I am sure
> that they find a new way of making money with this kind
> of uplifting technology.
>
> ;)
>
> Juergen
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Received on Thu Jul 19 12:59:20 2001