<span class="q">On 7/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Eichin</b> <<a href="mailto:eichin-openmoko@thok.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">eichin-openmoko@thok.org</a>> wrote:
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<br>"Joshua Hansen" <<a href="mailto:kronarq@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kronarq@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br><br>> I agree 100% with Coomac.</blockquote>
</span><div><br>Whoops, name fixed. <br><br><SNIP><br></div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
the people who can't bring cameras to work (a growing<br>number) are going to be a disproportionately large percentage of the<br>people who *actually pay for phones* and *want smartphones in the
<br>first place*...<br></blockquote></span><div><br>You're right about
business smart phones, but you're not taking nokia's symbian phones and
their huge userbase into account. One glance at gsmarena (or any phone
website) comments section will give you an idea of how large the non
business users are. <br><br>The phones all have cameras, even the E61 got one after the
owners made a fuss about it... and this is the true business phone of
the bunch. With nokia being the largest cell phone manufacturer, they
are scratching a significant itch for a significant number of smart
phone users.
<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/mobile_devices_who_decides/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/25/mobile_devices_who_decides/</a><br><br>it's more like 30% who can't have them, 15% who can't live without,<br>and the remaining 55% who don't care...</blockquote></span>
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<br>I don't know man. That poll only accounts for places where the
company/school/whatever supplies the phone to their employees, not the
general populace.<br></div><br>