Bye Bye SMS
Technology – fast paced and especially so in the mobile phone industry. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with it all…
Mobile Phone Trend
Recently the iPhone started a new drive in smart phones. Now we see another causality of technology – SMS, or text messaging on mobile phones. Sending SMS messages to friends was a big thing, and all you needed was their phone number in order to send. However, the SMS days are now numbered according to research group Gartner. Within 3 years, 1 in 5 users will be accessing their email via mobile phone rather than PC.
Mobile phones, once designed for telephone conversation, are increasingly being designed now for wireless internet connection and as application friendly gadgets.
Powerful Gadgets
Today there are just under 20 million wireless email users, but this will grow to 350 million, or 20 per cent of all email accounts within 3 years. Traditionally, email enabled mobile phones lacked other features such as camera, mp3 player, GPS systems and video players. Noticed how I mentioned the word “traditionally”? This is no longer the case, and our mobile phones have become one mean and powerful device that we can’t leave home without.
The Blackberry, once chunky and bland, now offers all these features in the Blackberry 8800. Motorola MOTO Q 9h, the Palm Treo 750 and the Samsung Blackjack have also been designed to offer email functionality along with fun features and good looking aesthetics.
It’s interesting to note that the price of SMS per the amount of data sent is rather expensive. Where we’re heading now is free email accounts when signing up on a plan.
