This has probably more to do with the geography/demographics in consideration. Nokia which is a very strong euro brand would find greater use for text and rich media messaging than the studies from north america and asia. A major difference between europe and the US for instance is the presence of state run television systems. There are very few channel choices for the average user in europe than there are in the states. In the states, phones are a fashion statement and a utilitarian tool (a phone!) unlike in europe where land line phones are so expensive that it is quite a bit cheaper to own and use a cell. So you have a contrast in the way that people not only use the device but how they percieve it. I for one have never been impressed with the whole TV on the phone business model. While companies search for ways to sell you new phones and services they are being distracted by the glitz of television and they are not paying enough attention to basic services. Chat (real-time) would be a better target for phone manufacturers, or more widely distributed and better integrated email. Location based services still have not taken off and they are a killer use for phones/location technology. Anyhow the whole TV on your phone thing is a solution looking for a problem and it could create an additional problem along the way as consumers find it increasingly hard to use the alloted bandwidth for just plain old calls because of the increased traffic of rich media services. In our area the peak hour call denial rate is getting quite high.
Personally I would have liked to see a more push to send video oriented service than television options but thats just me. I realize that mms does some of this but it does not encourage it in the same way that push to talk technologies do.
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This has probably more to do with the geography/demographics in consideration. Nokia which is a very strong euro brand would find greater use for text and rich media messaging than the studies from north america and asia. A major difference between europe and the US for instance is the presence of state run television systems. There are very few channel choices for the average user in europe than there are in the states. In the states, phones are a fashion statement and a utilitarian tool (a phone!) unlike in europe where land line phones are so expensive that it is quite a bit cheaper to own and use a cell. So you have a contrast in the way that people not only use the device but how they percieve it. I for one have never been impressed with the whole TV on the phone business model. While companies search for ways to sell you new phones and services they are being distracted by the glitz of television and they are not paying enough attention to basic services. Chat (real-time) would be a better target for phone manufacturers, or more widely distributed and better integrated email. Location based services still have not taken off and they are a killer use for phones/location technology. Anyhow the whole TV on your phone thing is a solution looking for a problem and it could create an additional problem along the way as consumers find it increasingly hard to use the alloted bandwidth for just plain old calls because of the increased traffic of rich media services. In our area the peak hour call denial rate is getting quite high.
Personally I would have liked to see a more push to send video oriented service than television options but thats just me. I realize that mms does some of this but it does not encourage it in the same way that push to talk technologies do.