CornerWorld » touch screen http://cornerworld.com CWRL-------Delivering Media To Your World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Are Wireless Phones Really About the Phone Anymore? http://cornerworld.com/wireless-phones-really-phones/ http://cornerworld.com/wireless-phones-really-phones/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:15:59 +0000 David Fleming http://cornerworld.com/?p=1054 On the legal side of telecommunications, the “duck test” is often used to describe how new technologies fit into legacy regulatory policies.  When data companies unveil voice services and claim that they are data and not voice products, the argument is often made by competitors and regulators that “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

This test is pertinent to the current state of the wireless phone industry as well.  With all of the enhancements happening, the user experience is getting more and more complex.  As a result, a paradox emerges.  If a phone doesn’t have a key pad, doesn’t require minutes and is rarely used to make calls; is it really a…

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