Couldn't have put it better myself!

Samantha.

However, it is no fair for women when most companies come up with gadgets with lesser features and functions. We appreciate the nice designs, but like man, we are after the functionality. For instance, mobile phones, we want more than just texting and calling. We also want to surf the net, play mobile games, listen to music using our mobile phones. We are no brainers! It's just so happened that women got logical and soft side.

What I'm trying to say here is, like how GenY-ers view Pink as a universal color now, intended for any gender, we hope that manufacturing companies (gadgets, phones, etc..) will do the same when they design their products.

I do love the pink however found a handset that suited my needs, I recently got the Samsung Tocco. It has a great camera, great specs, it’s not bulky or heavy, it is very sleek and is extremely easy to use and finally it is not PINK.

You only have to look at blogs like Shiny Shiny to see that there is a market out there for girls who want to be girly but also love technology.

I'm fully aware of the rules of supply and demand; and I'm fully aware that some women want Pink phones, I even said that. Fair enough, but for the rest of us, who are female, but do not like pink, or do not like it enough to have it as your mobile phone colour, there isn't much choice unless you go with the obviously “male” phones.

What I'm trying to point out, is that as you say you have, a nice mobile which is subtle, and feminine in a way that doesn't require it to be pink. But on top of that, mobile phones that match the specs, of their male orientated counterparts. I don't want a bulky thing, I was a nice sleek mobile, but still possesses the qualities of those bulky phones in the form of features.

Thanks for reading,
Samantha.

I've had a few pink phones in my time, not that I am a 'grown up' I have noticed that the supply for women is limited, unless you want a nasty black, bulky thing. So I have a very nice white and silver phone, with some lovely features. I can't imagine what phone shop you have been into that steered you towards a girly phone because it has never happened to me.

The odd thing though, it's been done primarily by female staff members. I'll talk to them next time about it, see what the response is.

It's not what they arn't providing, it's more of what they are providing, but not going about it the right way. As far as mobiles go, I like ones which are small, but not so that I can't use them. They should be practical, look nice, and not pink! My favourite colour phone wise is probably black or white. Then again, I have to say, my favourite mobile I've ever owned is a Nokia 3200; full customisable, and brilliant in all of it's simplicity.

I asked my Mum a similar question as I was writing the article, and she said something slender, stylish, useful, full of features which are expected on a phone to a good quality.

I'll see if I can get any better response off my friends.

Samantha.

(I'm in touch with my inner Country Life / Urban Mummy design guru)

There is, for sure, a problem with shop staff trying to sell to a particular demographic. It's easy to say “Woman, under 21, therefore likes pink and wants lots of texts” but, as you point out, it's often false. Don't play along with it. If they say you can only have a girly phone, tell them that you want to speak to their manager and tell him/her that you don't appreciate being treated in such a sexist manner

What features / services do you want, as a woman, that you think the mobile industry isn't providing?

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Samantha.

However, it is no fair for women when most companies come up with gadgets with lesser features and functions. We appreciate the nice designs, but like man, we are after the functionality. For instance, mobile phones, we want more than just texting and calling. We also want to surf the net, play mobile games, listen to music using our mobile phones. We are no brainers! It's just so happened that women got logical and soft side.

What I'm trying to say here is, like how GenY-ers view Pink as a universal color now, intended for any gender, we hope that manufacturing companies (gadgets, phones, etc..) will do the same when they design their products.

I'm fully aware of the rules of supply and demand; and I'm fully aware that some women want Pink phones, I even said that. Fair enough, but for the rest of us, who are female, but do not like pink, or do not like it enough to have it as your mobile phone colour, there isn't much choice unless you go with the obviously “male” phones.

What I'm trying to point out, is that as you say you have, a nice mobile which is subtle, and feminine in a way that doesn't require it to be pink. But on top of that, mobile phones that match the specs, of their male orientated counterparts. I don't want a bulky thing, I was a nice sleek mobile, but still possesses the qualities of those bulky phones in the form of features.

Thanks for reading,
Samantha.

I've had a few pink phones in my time, not that I am a 'grown up' I have noticed that the supply for women is limited, unless you want a nasty black, bulky thing. So I have a very nice white and silver phone, with some lovely features. I can't imagine what phone shop you have been into that steered you towards a girly phone because it has never happened to me.

The odd thing though, it's been done primarily by female staff members. I'll talk to them next time about it, see what the response is.

It's not what they arn't providing, it's more of what they are providing, but not going about it the right way. As far as mobiles go, I like ones which are small, but not so that I can't use them. They should be practical, look nice, and not pink! My favourite colour phone wise is probably black or white. Then again, I have to say, my favourite mobile I've ever owned is a Nokia 3200; full customisable, and brilliant in all of it's simplicity.

I asked my Mum a similar question as I was writing the article, and she said something slender, stylish, useful, full of features which are expected on a phone to a good quality.

I'll see if I can get any better response off my friends.

Samantha.

(I'm in touch with my inner Country Life / Urban Mummy design guru)

There is, for sure, a problem with shop staff trying to sell to a particular demographic. It's easy to say “Woman, under 21, therefore likes pink and wants lots of texts” but, as you point out, it's often false. Don't play along with it. If they say you can only have a girly phone, tell them that you want to speak to their manager and tell him/her that you don't appreciate being treated in such a sexist manner

What features / services do you want, as a woman, that you think the mobile industry isn't providing?