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- Posted by axlq on March 25th, 2006
In article <vmsa22tspdo2siointct4q0j85juft2qf3@news.markshous e.net>,
Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
Every time I'm in a foreign country, my hotel concierge has always
done the job pretty well.
And my phone won't work in foreign countries anyway, so the issue of
browsing-by-phone is irrelevant in my case.
-A
- Posted by axlq on March 25th, 2006
In article <2psa221ujbogjeoea4f9ba3s8jo8q9v2vg@news.markshous e.net>,
Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
Good point.
I won't disagree there. Different strokes for different folks.
-A
- Posted by Jim Ley on March 25th, 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:42:56 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
Normally the number in the SMS advising me of the country's
information number, when I first connect to the network.
hang on, so your killer application for mobile web, is "you're in a
foreign country, it's 1am and you want a taxi" - right so you need to
speak the local language and know the words for taxi, you need to find
a search engine that gets you to a directory service for your country,
and you need to get to the local phone numbers - potentially all in a
language you don't understand, and maybe even with font support
unavailable in your non-local phone.
All of this is also costing you 10s of pounds per megabyte - despite
the fact you could've just prepared by getting a taxi number earlier
in the day, or just ask a passerby.
sorry, it ain't much of a use case you've got there.
Jim.
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- Posted by Mark Goodge on March 25th, 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:48:33 +0000 (UTC), axlq put finger to keyboard
and typed:
The other point is that you and I are probably a bit old for it. For
teenagers, who use their phones more for texting than they do for
talking, mobile web browsing is the obvious next step.
Mark
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- Posted by Adrienne Boswell on March 25th, 2006
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed axlq@spamcop.net (axlq) writing in
news:e03s50$g77$5@blue.rahul.net:
I think the taxi might have been a bad example. Let's say you're in a city
in your own country, and you're in a motel or somewhere that doesn't have a
concierge, and you need to find a pharmacy that's open 24 hours because you
ran out of your medication. That is a situation where someone (a desk
person) might know the name of a pharmacy near by, but would not have other
information, and might not know the names of other pharmacies near by.
That would be an example of where a web based directory would really come
in handy. 411 operators really don't have time to look things up unless
you know the name of the place and possibly and address.
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- Posted by Matt Probert on March 25th, 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:31:59 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
Pornography on a 1 inch square screen? Not even 14 year olds are going
to get off on that!
Matt
- Posted by Jim Ley on March 25th, 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:42:33 GMT, Adrienne Boswell
<arbpen2003@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Can you show us your search procedure of how you go about that, even
on the regular web? Go for Liverpool England. People seem to have
great faith in web searches over talking to people for this very local
information, despite the fact local search on the web has so far been
an abject failure.
Also a location based SMS service would likely be easier if you were
wanting to develop new services to provide this data.
Jim.
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- Posted by Jim Ley on March 25th, 2006
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:31:59 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
Er, not at all, texting is about communication, web-browsing is not,
they're very different things.
Jim.
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- Posted by Paul Ding on March 25th, 2006
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:19:56 +0000 (UTC), axlq@spamcop.net (axlq)
posted something that included:
You're in the car, and decide to eat at Rangy Lil's - so you need to
call for reservations. Phoning 411 is a buck. Going online to look up
the number yourself is not.
You're in the car, trying to get to Rangy Lil's, and highway 222 is
backed up due to a wreck. You can either sit there and wait, or you
can experiment around, trying to find an alternate route, or you can
mapquest it.
You're in Walmart, and you see that there is a sale on flanges. Which
model is compatible with your gizmo? You can drive home and check it
out - or you can go online and find the information immediately.
You happen upon a quaint little garage sale. There's a 1923 Snidley
dillythumper sitting there, with a $20 price tag. You don't want one
for yourself, but you're wondering if you should buy it and list it on
ebay. Without checking recent auctions on ebay, and learning whether
it's worth $350 or $3, how do you know whether or not to offer the
seller $10?
If you never leave your house, then you probably don't need to surf on
your cell phone....
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- Posted by Adrienne Boswell on March 25th, 2006
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley)
writing in news:442587fc.56612484@news.individual.net:
Sure, I happen to live in Glendale, California, so I chose a small city I
used to live in about thirty years ago that I haven't visited since. Here
was my Google search - 24 hour pharmacy san mateo ca.
I used an Openwave emulator, and my first result was Walgreen Drug Stores
24 Hour Prescription Service and the phone number.
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