WTF is a Twitter phone?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Twitter, Blog, Mobile Phones, Internet on
So mobile phone maker INQ has decided that Twitter is hot, and with Christmas coming up the ideal marriage would be the first mass-market phone that comes complete with an Internet-based Twitter client installed.
A Twitter Phone in fact.
Frank Meehan, INQ Chief Executive, told Reuters that it will “drive Twitter use on mobile.”
While I wish him luck in his endeavour, I have to say a couple of things do occur to me.
1. Twitter usage does not driving on mobile devices, it is already bombing along the motorway in excess of the speed limit. Just look at the number of mobile Twitter clients out there, and for that matter the number of us that Tweet while on the move. That is kind of the point, after all.
2. Ah yes, those mobile Twitter clients. The ones that are designed to be installed on your mobile phone. Pretty much any mobile phone that has access to the Internet and supports the installation of applications can already be used for posting Tweets.
Which leaves me wondering, WTF is a Twitter Phone then? The only answer I can come up with is a good marketing ploy which will no doubt make an ideal xmas present for chavs who do not know better. Throw in a few Twittering celebrity usernames in the contact book, maybe the odd psychic trial or two, and it will be a xmas best-seller.
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Loading ...Comment by - June 4, 2009 on 2:25 pm
A phone with pre installed twitter client is a good idea. On the other hand does it’s success heavily depend on the quality of the Twitter client and handset hardware. Wondering, how much they paid for using the Twitter trademark.
Comment by - October 9, 2009 on 8:11 am
nice post!
Comment by - November 4, 2009 on 7:50 am
Hey i am using Twitter on my iPhone and it is working superb! With the help of twitter i daily get updated news as well as i can get in touch with other friends.
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