Fever
The US has iPhone launch fever, which is certainly the first time I’ve heard of that happening for a mobile phone. Usually they just sneak out without much fanfare. I mean who can honestly say that they know when a new Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone is really released? They’re announced months in advance and then they kinda just appear as an option from your carrier. Nobody queues up outside a store to get one.
For me, I’m still not convinced. I don’t think the price is a problem, there are plenty of PDA’s and even phones (some Nokia models) that come in around the same price point, but I like my phones to be small, robust, and generally just be phones. That’s why I always go with the Sony Ericsson models, they’re simply, light, have good cameras and just kinda work, even after I’ve dropped them twenty times. I don’t know how often I can see myself using it to play video or listen to music, I have iPod’s that can do that and I don’t use them either. Maybe it’ll come down to the convergence factor, just having all these things in one device might be the differentiating factor, once I don’t need to carry all these things separately I may be more inclined to use them. But at the moment I’m afraid I just don’t have iPhone fever. It’s very cool, don’t get me wrong, and I’d love to just play with one for a bit, but I don’t think it’s the second coming, nor do I think it’s going to come close to being as successful as the iPod is.
