Tuesday, January 3, 2006

New Product Idea

Folks,

Unhappy with my cell phone, my wife brought home a non-flip phone, but it has
the same
problems... it does too much.

First it is barely workable for me (I had my 12 year old program it). The
screen is unreadable,
but pretty with 216 million colors... in bright sunshine I cannot even see the
color, let alone the
print. Just when my eyes focus on the tiny screen, the light turns off to save
battery. I can do text
messaging, IM, and all sorts of other wonderful things, features I will never
use. I could go on,
but I'll get to the point.

I went into the Cingular store with the current phone and the last phone I was
happy with ... a
model from say 5 years ago. It showed date and time, sent and received phone
calls. And an
alarm clock. It was readable in any light, since it was black and white
screen... and the battery
lasted a long time.

So, I asked the gal to move the sim card from the new phone to the old, and she
said, sorry, the
old phones didn't have sim cards, it could not be done. So I ran down my
complaints, and asked
her what she had that would work for me, and she said what I had was the best
they could offer.

She also went on to say, she gets FOUR PEOPLE A DAY with my exact same
complaint... her
uncle is an engineer at Nokia and she is thinking about tipping him off.

Well, does anyone have any aspiration to the phone biz? Seems to me if so,
there is a product
here... an extremely simple cel phone, yes digital, with a sim card, but plain
vanilla phone with
NONE of the time wasting features that entice 12 year olds. Dont worry about
nokia, they will
never make such a phone.

My daughter inherited a record collection and asked for a record player for
Christmas. Best Buy
had one with a built in radio, etc. $80... which I expect is very profitable.
Real simple, updated
cheap technology... made by a no-name company. narrow demand, but profitable.

Who is going to make a simple, useful cel phone? One that you can just move the
sim card into
and then throw away the one Cingular made you buy? I'll be your first customer.

John


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