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Friday, September 23, 2005
More juice, please
A survey done by TNS indicates that what people want the most is longer battery life in their phones.
Forget 3G, mobile TV, GPS and MP3 capability. What users really want in their mobile phones and PDAs is two days’ worth of battery life for active use.
Other interesting revelations:
After battery life the next most important features for U.S. users were high-resolution camera and video camera (50 percent of respondents), the availability of full versions of Microsoft Office applications on the device (42 percent), and a device with 20 GB of memory (41 percent).
Of course 20 GB memory (currently only possible to achieve via a hard drive) would be used for multimedia, and typically uploaded from a PC. Downloading 20 GB worth of e.g. music from a pay site would obviously be a bit prohibitive.
Mobile Users Top Priority Is Better Batteries: Survey - Yahoo! News
Forget 3G, mobile TV, GPS and MP3 capability. What users really want in their mobile phones and PDAs is two days’ worth of battery life for active use.
Other interesting revelations:
After battery life the next most important features for U.S. users were high-resolution camera and video camera (50 percent of respondents), the availability of full versions of Microsoft Office applications on the device (42 percent), and a device with 20 GB of memory (41 percent).
Of course 20 GB memory (currently only possible to achieve via a hard drive) would be used for multimedia, and typically uploaded from a PC. Downloading 20 GB worth of e.g. music from a pay site would obviously be a bit prohibitive.
Mobile Users Top Priority Is Better Batteries: Survey - Yahoo! News
