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Mini mobile phones: Is the trend passe?
Size and functionality are two important aspects of a mobile phone. But not always does the combo work...
Jul 08, 2007
Despite the rage created by mini and slim phones, today's mobile user is eyeing the bigger mobile phones. With PDA features (schedulers, tasks, extensive contact database), multimedia features (music, video and photography), Internet connectivity, wireless connectivity (Infrared, Bluetooth, WAP), the mobile user is becoming more greedy and no longer wants to squint at his half-inch screen. From the mini, the user is deviating to large screens, big fonts and larger keypads.

Cell phone, which is often referred to as the 'Third Screen' after the television and computer, is the computing platform of the future. Plus, today, there is the increasing need to carry your office in your phone. With this in mind, mobile phone companies have started to bridge the gap between computers and cellular phones. While computers have been reduced to note-pads, mobile phones have increased in size to accommodate the varying features of an iPod, a computer, an MP3 player, a digital camera, apart from the regular features of a mobile phone. Today’s users are increasingly looking for models that represent convergence, packing all the mediums in one device. Most of the PDA phones manufactured by O2, I-mate, Dopod, HP Ipaq, Blackberry, etc all adhere to the above theory, which makes these phones a popular choice among high-flying executives, as well as teeny boppers with an eye for the latest flamboyant devices. The Nokia communicator, at the time of its launch was considered the ultimate in business phones. Now, Nokia’s E-60, E-61, E-62, E-65, their N Series (starting from N70 to the N90, N95 as well as the N800), their new communicators, 9500, 9300i; Sony Ericsson's P990i and M600i as well as Motorola’s MotoMing—all of these fall into the well equipped business phone category.

With mobile phones having become all-in-one devices, size is really the last thing on the user's mind. Guess, we can now honestly say size doesn't matter.

              
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