Link: The Betty
One of the girls at work just stopped by my desk to show me a picture of her hamster on her mobile phone.
I used to follow The Betty’s blog in a previous incarnation. From what I can gather, she’s a fit twenty-something with a healthy physical appetite. Good news.
Now and again she alludes to mobile phone usage — I find any mentions of how ‘real people’ (i.e. not mobile geeks) use their mobiles fascinating.
In the above linked post, she describes how a work colleague came up to her and showed her a picture of her hamster on her mobile phone. Heh. Betty doesn’t react that well to this obviously.
What’s rather interesting is how mobile users have so quickly adapted to using their camera-enabled mobile handsets as photo albums.
The frustrating thing for me is that this girl in question has probably never thought of uploading her hamster pictures to a moblogging service. Even if she did consider doing this, her price plan would probably charge her £3 a meg anyway. Ah well. At least people are using their handsets…
An enduring problem for a lot of mobile users is transferring their few hundred photos from old to new handset. I know that my friends have got over this problem by using bluetooth to transfer pictures when they get a new phone. But it’s a total arse. Some handsets can’t transfer multiple images so a few friends I know have literally spent hours bluetoothing images to their new handset… or, well let’s be precise, they’re viewing their handset as a photo album. A destination. They show images to people physically. They were conditioned to do this because it was far too difficult and expensive to send pictures when they first got their camera phones.
Ah well. I can feel a Friday-night rant coming on so I’ll stop there.
Oh, just in case you wondered what a Betty is:
The term Betty refers to a hot chick. One that is attractive, stylish and self confident. A Betty is typically a looker.
A Super Betty is one step above that. She is very hot in all areas. Denise Richards and Carmen Electra are examples of Super Bettys.