Ugh, I am not a big fan of the easy marketing labels going about today, but here it is or rather here they are, the Twitter Phones. In an effort to one-up their Facebook phone, this phone aims to keep Twitter users connected non-stop.
What is different about these phones is the Twitter app is always on. This means tweets can get to you without you going out and seeking them. Surely someone must want this feature, though that many tweets would become bothersome to me in short order. The app follows the always-on feature from their Facebook and Skype apps. Handy features, but at the expense of battery life?
INQ, the handset maker, says the 3G phones will cost less than Apple and Nokia’s entries as well as competing models that lack 3G. From Forbes: “CEO Frank Meehan says the Mini should hit store shelves in September, while the Chat–which features a BlackBerry-esque QWERTY keyboard–will be out before Christmas. The phones will be launched first in Britain, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Ireland and Austria; Meehan says more countries will be announced later.”
INQ claims to have sold 700,000 since launching in 2008. Their first phones, the Facebook Phone and the Skype phone each received a lot of attention. Seems the public loves phones that clearly provide some tangible benefit. Easy to sell, easy to love. So why are we all smitten with smartphones who aim to do everything?
Read [Forbes]
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