My colleague's "smart phone dream" seems quite calm. He not only understands the charm of smart phones, but also knows that the current smart phones need to be improved, and he has set his price psychological line.
compared with my colleague, what do those users who have already bought smartphones think? As brave "Early Accepter", what kind of joy and troubles did they enjoy? For this topic, the reporter interviewed 12 users who used 9 kinds of smart phones, such as Panda CH86, dopod 686, Lenovo ET18, CLP cect838, Nokia 921, 765, 365, Sony Ericsson P82 and Treo18.
"No cell phone, pager, and business communication can be left behind", which seems to be a thing of the last era, and now it sounds like a joke. Who says pagers and business communication are essential? The person who invented this sentence would never have imagined that the mobile phone was so powerful in a blink of an eye that it could swallow a pager and a business connection, and it became a "mobile phone, one is enough". This is not enough. Not long after the mobile phone was enough, a more powerful mobile phone came. It is a "smart phone" that integrates communication and computing.
it is always difficult to define new things. Some people say that only the Microsoft Smartphone operating system is a smart phone; Some people say that all the four general operating systems-Microsoft PocketPC Phone edition, Microsoft Smartphone operating system, Palm operating system and Symbian operating system are smart phones. And more people have broader standards. They think that PIM (Personal Information Management)+extensibility is a smart phone, such as the famous Motorola's Java mobile phone A388. What this paper will discuss is: an open operating platform, a mobile operating system with complete development support, and products based on these operating systems. At present, there are several kinds of such operating systems: PocketPC Phone edition, Smartphone, Palm, Symbian, Linux and Java platform. According to IDC's latest global data, Symbian platform mobile phones account for 7%, Windows only accounts for 5%, and PalmOS accounts for 1%. It is estimated that by 26, Symbian will drop to 53%, Windows will rise to 27%, Palm will be flat, Linux will drop from to 4%, and other mobile phones will drop from 15% to 6%. This paper only discusses the top three mobile phone platforms: Windows, Symbian and Palm.
1. Microsoft platform:
1. PPC mobile phone
At the end of p>2, Microsoft introduced PocketPC, an operating system for handheld computers. By 22, business opportunities for smart phones had just emerged, and many PocketPC manufacturers wanted to introduce PocketPC with integrated mobile phone functions, so in August 22, the operating system of Microsoft PocketPC 22 Phone Edition, which was optimized for mobile phones, came out in a hurry. That is, in October 22, the first domestic PPC mobile phone, dopod 686, went on the market. The advertising campaign made people always ask, "What is dopod?"? "What is a smart phone"?
dopod 686 can be regarded as a pioneering work for PPC mobile phones to be concerned by the domestic market. Subsequently, Panda launched CH86 and Lenovo launched ET18. I don't know what the expected sales volume of the merchants is. It is reported that up to now, the sales volume of dopod 686 is about 2,, which is the best-selling PPC mobile phone in China.
In any case, after all, PPC mobile phones have opened up a landscape, and several brands of PPC mobile phones are experiencing the first test in the hands of tens of thousands of China users.
I have a strong pursuit of open systems
Mr. Guo, who lives in Hefei, is a technical engineer and is 35 years old. Recently, he bought a panda CH86 through online mail order, and spent 68 yuan, plus accessories and so on ***75 yuan.
Mr. Guo has been in contact with PC since 1995 and is a skilled computer user. Mr. Guo said that his pursuit of "open system and DIY function" is very strong. He bought a smart phone because it can communicate with a PC as an extension of the PC. Mr. Guo chose CH86 among the currently available models-dopod 686, Lenovo ET18 and Panda CH86. Dopod was not selected because its battery is non-detachable; The reason for not choosing ET18 is that it has no CF extension. Mr. Guo thinks that CF extension is just like USB extension of PC, and new functions can be added by purchasing CF-supporting hardware.
CH86 meets all his daily needs for portable devices: mobile phone, large-capacity address book, convenient calendar and reminder, e-book, portable reading of materials, slide show and memorizing words. Because he is proficient in computers, he has found many third-party software to expand the functions of CH86: software that can display battery and disk space; Software that can personalize ringtones and pictures; Chinese SMS patch; Support e-book software including PDF and many other formats; Multimedia playing software; Voice dialing software; Infrared remote control simulator; PDA function key extension software; Word memorizing software; Electronic English-Chinese dictionary; Telephone firewall software and so on, although there are some English software, but it is also very convenient to use.
Mr. Guo said that other applications such as GPRS, GPS, digital cameras and large-capacity hard disks can be expanded at any time, but they are not added because they are not needed at present.
But to be honest, Mr. Guo still has a lot of dissatisfaction with CH86:
1. The battery is the biggest problem, and it can only be used for one day at a time, including listening to music and reading novels for 2-3 hours and making 6-1 phone calls. When the power is below 25%, the telephone function will be automatically turned off or cannot be used normally. Fortunately, I bought a CF extension back clip with 18mV spare battery.
2. The bell is too small. Because the ringtone and the call are played through a loudspeaker, the call is played too loudly and can be heard by people around; But the bell is still very small. He used the audio editing software cooledit to increase the system ringtone by 2 decibels, only slightly better.
3. The system is unstable and crashes.
4. The machine is too big and heavy, which is inconvenient (especially when carrying a back clip).
5. A mature programmable database for PPC has not been found, so it is not convenient to collect and input data.
However, he doesn't regret the decision to buy CH86: an open system with unlimited expansion functions conforms to the DIY spirit. For him, through software settings, all the requirements for portable digital equipment are basically met: data carrying and demonstration; Music and English study; Writing function that can be carried out at any time; A large number of comprehensive contact information is very convenient; At any time, you can expand the use of GPRS, GPS, digital photography, slide show and other functions. When friends who use PocketPC joke that his PPC phone is heavy, he laughs at them "mobile phone, PDA, MP3, not one of them can be less". In a word, Mr. Guo thinks, "I still think it's worth it after using it."
After the reporter's online interview, Mr. Guo is on a business trip with his precious mobile phone. Mr. Guo is a typical PDA mobile phone user, who regards it as a PDA outside the function of the mobile phone. However, Mr. Guo didn't use GPRS mobile phone to surf the Internet, but there is a class of PPC mobile phone users who prefer the internet function of PPC mobile phone and use it as a wireless terminal that can surf the Internet at any time.
PPC mobile phone is my data mobile phone
Mr. Li Yiyuan is the department manager of a network company, who often travels. A few months ago, he bought a Lenovo ET18, and then participated in the "One-year Unlimited GPRS" activity of China Mobile, and bought a data SIM card bound to his mobile phone SIM card number.
now, how does Mr. Li use his ET18? First of all, he logs in to the company website through GPRS to handle some company affairs. Besides, he often reads novels, listens to mp3, keeps notes with notes, and looks up Kingsoft. In addition, the handheld online banking of China Merchants Bank is also his favorite application. Because of frequent business trips, I have a lot of spare time, but reading a novel on my mobile phone, time passes unconsciously. He equipped ET18 with a 128M SD card, and stored more than 2 novels, including almost all the works of Jin Yong, Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Stephen King. It is no exaggeration to say that this mobile phone is a handheld library. Using GPRS to log in to pda.xiaoshuo.net, a novel website specially designed for handheld devices, a novel can be downloaded in less than one minute, which is very convenient.
since the data SIM card is used, Mr. Li's ET18 can't be used as a mobile phone. This may be a big accident for the manufacturer, and Mr. Li explained: "I don't want to give up the convenient and easy-to-use mobile phone. The biggest problem with this PPC phone is that the basic phone function is not satisfactory, and it is not very convenient to use. From time to time, it makes me realize that it uses Microsoft's operating system (which means that it loves to crash and often needs to be restarted), and the chance of death at a critical time is very annoying. "
Mr. Li Xueling, the head of Guangzhou Netease, also bought a PPC mobile phone-dopod a few months ago, and he also used it as a "data mobile phone". He said: "I don't use the function of mobile phone very much, so I will work as a PDA, and I can use GPRS to surf the Internet and read web pages. I want to monitor the network news of our company. If there is anything wrong with the news, I can see it outside and call back to the company."
The reporter also met another dopod 686 user, who also felt that the function of his mobile phone was poor, and now he no longer uses it as a mobile phone.
The characteristics of these users are that they want to surf the Internet on the move and have a PDA with GPRS. Instead of buying a PDA and a CF GPRS card extension, they choose to buy a PPC mobile phone.
the reporter suddenly felt that this was a bit uneconomical, because the price of PocketPC+ CF GPRS card with voice function was much cheaper than that of PPC mobile phone, for example, Acer n1 (2,4 yuan)+CFGPRS (1,4 yuan) = 3,5 yuan. The price of a PPC mobile phone is about 6 yuan or more. Mr. Li Yiyuan also thinks that this seems a bit extravagant, but it is mainly to save trouble.
PPC mobile phone should be a good mobile phone at first, but now its telephone function is really unsatisfactory, and it is only a "PocketPC with telephone function", not a "mobile phone with PDA function". PPC mobile phone is a new cross-industry thing. Microsoft's PocketPC system itself is not specially designed for mobile phones, and PocketPC manufacturers generally lack experience in mobile phone manufacturing. All these reasons make it impossible for you to buy the current PPC mobile phone as a mobile phone, but as a PocketPC with one more function (mobile phone function).
2. Microsoft SmartPhone
Just when users complained about the defects of PPC phones, Microsoft SmartPhone phones came out. The testing of the Chinese version of Microsoft Smartphone 23 has been basically completed, and it will be available in China in early August. Before its release, CECT838, a domestic product with its own localization of SmartPhone22, was first listed two months ago. Some users who bought PPC mobile phones were supposed to be PocketPC users, so they chose PPC mobile phones because they didn't want to bring two devices-mobile phones and PocketPC. Those who bought Microsoft SmartPhone 22 mobile phones shortly after the launch of Microsoft Smartphone operating system and before the bugs were corrected one by one must almost be out-and-out enthusiasts.
You don't know smart phones unless you are a player
Yang Dan of Xi 'an is 22 years old, graduated from computer science and just started working. He said to the reporter with a little pride: "Have you ever used the master of registry optimization on Pocket PC? I made that up. At present, at least 6% of China PPC users use my software, although it is said to be free software ... "
More than a month ago, Yang Dan went to Shanghai and bought a CECT838 for 48 yuan.
Yang Dan already has a Toshiba PocketPC. His motivation for buying the 838 is obviously different from that of PPC mobile phone users. He doesn't need a PocketPC. So why buy CECT838? "Because it is the first smart phone listed in China, and probably the first foldable smart phone in the world, I have been paying attention to smart phones for a long time," Yang Dan answered me.
"What do you do with it?" "After all, this 838 appeared as a mobile phone, so I mainly use it to make phone calls, take photos with its camera, and sometimes use it to listen to MP3 and watch Movie. I also installed a lot of trial versions of the game, expanded the caller ID function and installed personalized ringtone software. "
when the reporter still questioned the necessity of buying a SmartPhone when he already had a PocketPC, he said the following sentence: "I think PDA is PDA and mobile phone is mobile phone. PDA and mobile phone are not replaceable, just like PDA and notebook are not replaceable. My 838 is' mobile phone integrates computer functions' and is a real smart phone. " Because of these beliefs, Yang Dan firmly supported SmartPhone even though it just came out.
Nevertheless, Yang Dan does not shy away from the problems of the Microsoft SmartPhone he bought:
1. The battery is also the weakness of the 838. It takes less than a day when there are many phones. Whenever he goes to the movies, he always thinks about how much electricity is left. When the battery is low, he doesn't even dare to watch it, for fear that the battery will run out and he can't make a phone call.
2. The RAM is small. Although it comes with a 32MB MMC, he also uses a Panasonic256MB SD card. But maybe he is used to using Pocket PC. He is used to installing all the programs in RAM, and as a result, it is always full without a few programs.
3. There are also crashes. For example, he installs a 3 at a time.