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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:58:02 -0600
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Smartphone? Presto! 2-Way Radio
Message-ID: <k34esa$n5f$1@dont-email.me>
On 9/14/2012 7:01 AM, Jim Bennett wrote:
> As seen last week in the NY Times:
>>
>> They work on iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, Android phones and Windows
>> phones. You open the app, tap someone's name, hold down the big Talk
>> button and speak. A second after you start talking - yes, even before
>> you're finished - your voice bursts to life, extremely clearly, on
>> your friend's phone, wherever it may be in the world.
>>
>> Your buddy can respond to you by pressing his own Talk button, and
>> the conversation is under way.
>> <snip>
>
> Astounding. Yet another amazing new digital technology. Who would have
> ever even thought it possible? A box that magically transmits your
> voice using radio waves, and then, through a system of networked
> repeaters, it can be heard on another box at a distant location. This
> is absolutely the most amazing new thing I have seen in decades.
>
> We owe a debt of gratitude to the news media, which does an excellent
> job of keeping us informed about all this new technology.
>
> Just think how hard the previous generations had it. For example, prior
> to 1972 there were no Bic lighters. I am old enough to remember those
> times - sitting around freezing in the dark, eating uncooked food. We
> really have come a long way.
Don't be too hard on them: the paper is going to be printed anyway, and
they'd be fools not to try to fill it with their messages instead of
letting some other company hype a different product.
To the tweenagers who are the primary market for smartphones, it is a
new technology. It's all relative.
Bill
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:30:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Smartphone? Presto! 2-Way Radio
Message-ID: <k352c2$p8g$1@reader1.panix.com>
Bill Horne <bill@horneqrm.net> wrote:
:On 9/14/2012 7:01 AM, Jim Bennett wrote:
:> As seen last week in the NY Times:
:>>
:>> They work on iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, Android phones and Windows
:>> phones. You open the app, tap someone's name, hold down the big Talk
:>> button and speak. A second after you start talking - yes, even before
:>> you're finished - your voice bursts to life, extremely clearly, on
:>> your friend's phone, wherever it may be in the world.
:>>
:>> Your buddy can respond to you by pressing his own Talk button, and
:>> the conversation is under way.
:>> <snip>
:>
:> Astounding. Yet another amazing new digital technology. Who would have
:> ever even thought it possible? A box that magically transmits your
:> voice using radio waves, and then, through a system of networked
:> repeaters, it can be heard on another box at a distant location. This
:> is absolutely the most amazing new thing I have seen in decades.
:>
:> We owe a debt of gratitude to the news media, which does an excellent
:> job of keeping us informed about all this new technology.
:>
:> Just think how hard the previous generations had it. For example, prior
:> to 1972 there were no Bic lighters. I am old enough to remember those
:> times - sitting around freezing in the dark, eating uncooked food. We
:> really have come a long way.
:Don't be too hard on them: the paper is going to be printed anyway, and
:they'd be fools not to try to fill it with their messages instead of
:letting some other company hype a different product.
:To the tweenagers who are the primary market for smartphones, it is a
:new technology. It's all relative.
Median age of a smartphone buyer is about forty.
--
sig 58
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:57:51 +0000 (UTC)
From: Mike Ryan <mikeryan.lacklustre.net@replace.first.dot.with.at>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Smartphone? Presto! 2-Way Radio
Message-ID: <k35egf$qg9$1@dont-email.me>
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:30:42 +0000, David Scheidt wrote:
> Bill Horne <bill@horneqrm.net> wrote:
> > To the tweenagers who are the primary market for smartphones, it is
> > a new technology. It's all relative.
>
> Median age of a smartphone buyer is about forty.
Buyer or user? Source?
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