The Dark Side of Convergence
Cell phone or PDA? Some people use both. Some people would like to have both integrated into one device. Convergence is a goldmine for the phone manufacturers since they get to sell expensive PDA phones with lots of features. The downside of course is that these large bricks rarely work well, are expensive and are too fragile. Not to mention that they either don’t have the form factor that works well for a phone or a PDA. As a recent survey just revealed we all know that a jack of all trades is master of none:
The study and survey noted that device vendors obviously believe in the
convergence of the two types of devices or they wouldn’t be adding
wireless connectivity to PDAs and PDA functions to phones, the study
noted. But each form factor has its strengths and a survey run as part
of the study found that users don’t necessarily want convergence.
The survey also notes that people rarely use most of the features in their PDA phones anyways.
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