The teenagers of Clanton, Alabama, don’t do mobile innovation

By on February 3, 2007 in News

Have a read of this one.

It caught my eye because it reckons that the young people of Clanton, Alabama, don’t like the idea of linking music and mobile. That’s clearly because they’re all sat there using five year old handsets. ;-) If you’ve got a moment, have a read. Shocking.

So much so that they reckon that adding pictures, movies to handsets is spoiling them ….

Link: The Clanton Advertiser: News

“With all of the new picture phones and phones that get on the Internet there seems to be no point to them anymore. If you can see the person you are talking to on the phone then what’s the point in talking to them on the phone. You could have gone to see them if wanted to talk face to face,” they said.With their regular cell phones in their pocket they all agreed that they would not purchase a new iPhone or any other “extreme” cell phone.

D’ya reckon they have electricity in Clanton? Or was that thought a little bit pointless when you can burn wood and get warm that way?

(Hello anyone from Clanton!)

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  • http://phranticsnr.wordpress.com Daniel

    $300 for the iPhone, and $200 for the bill? Doesn’t the 4gig iPhone start at $499? If this is the case, then I wonder if the American phone companies should start directing more of their marketing into the deep south, to educate the people as to the actual cost? I know in this case they may have grossly underestimated the cost of the handset, but they may be grossly overestimating the cost of the plans etc… (or American phone companies might just like to keep this little corner of society oblivious of the true costs of mobile telephony, and cash in on this when the kids get older. Either way.)