Comments on: Study: Americans Want To Customize Their Phones, But Don’t Want To Pay Extra For It

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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:53:15 +0000

[...] Americans Want To Customize Their Phones, But Don’t Want To Pay Extra For It [...]

By: Vlad (Small Business Blog)

Vlad (Small Business Blog) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:15:46 +0000

At least with HTC-developed devices is never was a problem. With one of my favorites, AT&T Tilt, you can customize pretty much everything, including the very software that runs all cell phone’s communications. I was so amazed at the prospective, I wrote a whole series about customizing HTC phone, largely based on xda-developers forum (link to last part: http://www.istu...t-4-2009-03-05/)

By: Krishnamoorthy.K

Krishnamoorthy.K — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:15:02 +0000

I thought everyone on the planet would want that at no extra cost

By: personal

personal — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:09:56 +0000

Mobiles are far more personal than PC or even laptop. Customization is a must..

By: Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Web Design

Brisbane Sydney Melbourne Web Design — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:15:33 +0000

I’m looking forward to the Palm Pre just so I can customize the hell out of it. Mobiles are personal, you shouldn’t have to uniform to someone else’s interface choices.

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:12:12 +0000

I use a pre-paid phone (I use the cell phone so little that pre-paid comes out to about $6/month). I’d be happy if they’d only let me download contacts to the phonebook! Why that function should be shut off – manufacturer has it, MVNO (Virgin Moble) makes them shut it down – is beyond me!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:06:58 +0000

unfortunately we have a middleman called money which determines worth

apparently we are too dumb to decide the value of things on our own

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:05:01 +0000

I think its dumb to call non-smart phones dumb. A phone shouldn’t be a computer. You don’t save time by having a smart phone or so many apps at your fingertips…it simply makes you develop ADD

‘let me check that, let me check this’

use your brain

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:53:15 +0000

Just for a comparison: there was another study – 80% of users don’t use the phonebook on their phones; around 30% DIDN’T KNOW IT EXISTS !

I’m not kidding.

By: Ashish Rangole

Ashish Rangole — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:50:02 +0000

Nobody wants to pay extra, just what it is worth to them.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:35:21 +0000

Wait… are you actually telling me they needed a ’study’ for this???

By: Kiki

Kiki — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:34:07 +0000

I still use an old fashioned phone. It works like a champ.

Sorry folks. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Kiki

GossipMojo.com

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:43:03 +0000

I still don’t have a cell phone. Too many models to choose from.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:35:47 +0000

The reason why it might be so popular to “pimp” your phone in Spain might be similar to the reasons in Italy – where they simply want to “show off”, and the car is not always handy – but the phone is…

By: Darin Carter

Darin Carter — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:09:33 +0000

I think this is why the iPhone is doing so well, I can download the different apps to my phone and “customize” the way it functions.

Darin

By: natsu

natsu — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:09:20 +0000

We don’t even need apps. I think you should be able to customize your phone. You shouldn’t have to pay for a song you already bought on itunes, again because you have a phone that doesn’t let you change your ringtones (sidekick?).

Or companies like virgin mobile make you pay for your songs again if you need to change phones.