This year's top news would be iPhone. Actually I bought 2 even though I can't use them as phones in Korea. After $200 price cut, I was really upset.
But iPhone is still worth. Whenever I goes to the US, I am activating iPhone with pre-paid service. As a handset, it does not have best quality but it has best user interface. It is easy to use. Pundits always have been saying that ease of use is the key to the success of handset. If you look at Nokia phones, Samsung phones, and other handsets, you feel like you are in a maze. Too many functions are scattered around the menu trees. Sometimes it is not intuitive to locate functionalty what you want. Apple worked out this difficulties by sacrificing lots of important features like MMS, Java and Carrir specific things. Actually this kinds of jobs could be done by Apple. Usually Carrier is the boss. All the handset makers should have to follow their boss's orders. They have to integrate all the features that are not necessary for the most of users into their design. It worses the ease of use.
Fortunately, we will have another player like Apple in the next year. Google announced Android this year. They will encourage developers to make easy of use applications. The phones based on Google would be free of Operators tight grip.
I hope we can see bunch of user-oriented (ease-of-use) approaches in the mobile world. It dosen't need to be a touch screen phone.
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