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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Verizon offers global e-mail
GlobalEMail works initially on one specific phone (Samsung i830) and costs $65 a month (flat rate). You judge if it's attractive.
When will operators realize that they can't expect users to switch phone for just one new service, especially when there's only one to choose from. What's in it for the operator? It clearly only delays the deployment. We had the same situation when DoCoMo introduced i-mode in Europe, requiring specific phones, supporting the special dialect of HTML and e-mail that i-mode uses, but that no one had, while there were many that had WAP and Internet e-mail at that time.
samsung.com has no information about this phone yet, but I found some elsewhere.
Verizon Wireless Launches Global E-Mail Service - Yahoo! News
CES Unveiled: Samsung i830 - Treo 700w Killer? - Gizmodo
When will operators realize that they can't expect users to switch phone for just one new service, especially when there's only one to choose from. What's in it for the operator? It clearly only delays the deployment. We had the same situation when DoCoMo introduced i-mode in Europe, requiring specific phones, supporting the special dialect of HTML and e-mail that i-mode uses, but that no one had, while there were many that had WAP and Internet e-mail at that time.
samsung.com has no information about this phone yet, but I found some elsewhere.
Verizon Wireless Launches Global E-Mail Service - Yahoo! News
CES Unveiled: Samsung i830 - Treo 700w Killer? - Gizmodo
