IP: Survey on cell phone features

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 02:54:49 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Marcus Haebler <haebler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Survey on cell phone features
>
>Prof. Farber,
>
>I thought this might be interesting for the IP list. It is certainly some
>interesting data for a couple of discussion we had in class (TCOM670) this
>semester (I was the TA).
>
>Best,
>
>Marcus Haebler
>
>
>Article from http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/rop-07.05.01-000/
>freely translated to English.
>
>www.jamba.de, a portal for WAP, SMS, ... in Germany did a survey
>national survey about features consumers want to see on cell phones.
>Every feature was ranked in four categories between "absolutly
>necessary" to "unneeded" by the participants. Here are the results
>I grabbed out of the article in list form:
>
>- more than 50% wanted bigger displays
>- more than 50% wanted color displays
>- 18% thought color is "absolutly necessary"
>- 64% thought a builtin camera was not necessary
>- more than 60% think that fast data connection with Internet
>   access are important
>- 43% can do without WAP
>- for 27% Email is important
>- 36% think that GPRS is unneeded
>- but 62% hope for UMTS
>- 70% believe that Bluetooth is "not so important" or "unneeded"
>- 54% don't want to miss a builtin MP3 player
>- 44% want a headset included with the cell phone (using the cell
>   phone while driving is forbidden in Germany)
>- 72% would put up with commercials on the cell phone if phone
>   usage is free
>- Organizer functions with Internet integration are ranked
>   "desired" or "necessary" by 53%.
>
>Translators comments:
>---------------------
>I couldn't find the original source at jamba.de. I'd like to see
>that. A list of questions asked and the kind of people they asked
>would also be very helpful, I guess.
>
>If you believe this, there is hope for UMTS while it looks bad for
>Bluetooth.  Also, WAP is not as great. For all the non-Europeans here,
>bidirectional SMS is a reality in Germany for about 5 years (I always have
>to laugh when Verizon tries to sell that as a great new feature in its TV
>ads). WAP is on the market for over a year now (I believe).



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