Thanks, Steve, for describing the "obvious." Surely, part of the huge popularity of Blackberry is that it fits in the hand so well. Count me among those who do not welcome tiny/tinniness. No greater nightmare than losing a miniscule sim card onto a train floorboard while crossing a frontier. A friend who is inveterate early adopter discarded his miniature Nokia one year; not professional grade, for every reason you cite, especially battery charge, which kept draining while he was on the job. Not great design to require an auto as accessory to keep the battery fresh.
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved? To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:26 AM On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) <[email protected]> wrote: > Feature sizes decrease in electronics every 1-1.5 years, so more > features per given area. Eventually, the format size for a component > decreases as well. This has been occurring for decades. This is > obvious and I am surprised that people on the list think this is a bad > thing. Again, this is true for some, perhaps even most electronic/digital devices, but this trend is not universal nor is it always permanent. Some types of devices that went through a size shrinkage phase reverted to becoming larger again because smallness became a liability as opposed to an asset. Going small in such cases provides a benefit only for the manufacturer, not for the consumer. Hand-held two-way radios are an example that immediately comes to mind. Being made too small did not work well for users. The tiny buttons became hard to deal with, the small speaker rendered voice communications hard to understand, smaller displays were hard to read, they broke when dropped or were handled roughly, the smaller batteries would not last or provide sufficient power, the radios could not be placed upright on a table because the weight of the antenna would cause it to fall over, etc. This became a problem for pros such as police and firefighters and also with consumer level radios such as FRS or GMRS devices. Going small is not necessarily a good thing for the end user. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
