Mobile Notes: T-Mobile Shadow II, Driving, Instinct
Posted by Joe P on June 26, 2008
Will the T-Mobile Shadow II be a Hotspot @Home phone? If so, it would be the first HTC handset and the first Windows Mobile handset to be so. Adding more Hotspot devices is only going to make T-Mobile’s service more popular, so it’s easy to believe these rumors. But don’t get your hopes up. These are from “market sources,” and we know what it means to believe an anonymous source. Beware, I suppose, with the excitement. We’ll wait for an official announcement. (But it would be so awesome if it were true!)
We’re just a few days away from California’s ban on using a handset while driving. Washington state will start enforcing their law the same day. We at Going Cellular have long been advocates of handset bans. Even though I always leave my Bluetooth in my car, where it loses its charge overnight. But that’s why we have passengers, right? To hold the phone up to our ears.
The day is fast approaching when consumers become a company’s R&D department. Okay, maybe they won’t replace internal research. But with the nation becoming more tech savvy, and with innovation showing no signs of slowing, by 2013 we could be seeing increased interaction between consumer and company, leading the company down the right path.
Sprint has been hyping the Instinct like no other handset, so it’s little surprise that it’s their fastest selling model ever. It was released just a week ago, though Sprint isn’t giving the exact number. Of course they aren’t. They want this thing to stand up to the iPhone, and I doubt they reached that level of first week sales. Still, good job by Sprint of at least creating a device more popular than all their past models.
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