Following hot on the heels of Fred Wilson’s Quick Mobile Bio yesterday, I’m delighted to be able to feature Guy Kawasaki.
Sometimes I have to stop reading Guy’s blog for a few days at a time. I often find it too good. To full of information that I can’t do anything for 15 minutes whilst I sit and assimilate his comments. The producitivty rate and quality of the content on his blog is astounding — I thoroughly recommend adding it to your regular reading list.
Guy is Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a columnist for Forbes and more recently, a prolific blogger — not to mention an author to boot (More details here). I was there, reading from the start!
In my quest to find out what other people — not necessarily involved directly in the mobile industry — think about mobile, I emailed Guy to see if he could answer my standard 3 question Quick Mobile Bio.
He could! Here we go:
1. What was the make of your first phone?
Motorola
[I’m guessing he’s referring to one of the first ‘brick’ Motorola handsets!]
2. What make your current phone?
Motorola Q
3. What’s are the most used features on your current handset?
EVDO to get IMAP email
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This last answer I find interesting: I think I’d have expected a Blackberry as the primary handset since they are so popular in North America. Or perhaps another similar PDA with a keyboard – a Treo for example. Lucky that Guy has access to EVDO on his handset — we’re limited to 384k ‘3g’ here in London, so when it comes to accessing your IMAP on a mobile… it can take forever. 😉
Anyway, Guy, thank you for taking the time to answer.
More Quick Mobile Bios coming soon!
Thanks for the kind words! Here’s more info:
– My first cell phone was a Motorola brick indeed!
– I am an email centric person, hence my love of the Q and its EVDO. Even if Cingular had a Q, GSM just doesn’t cut it compared to EVDO.
– As far as a keyboard: I never answer with my Q. It’s strictly read-only and discard junk, so the keyboard doesn’t matter.
Thanks,
Guy