New Product Idea

Re: [spiers] New Product Idea

John,

Exactly, My wife and I would love a cell phone that was simple with only
the basics. Also I would like a computer which was simple too!

Vic Uhlik, senior - age 74

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Spiers"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: [spiers] 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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