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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed axlq (AT) spamcop (DOT) net (axlq) writing in
news:e03s50$g77$5 (AT) blue (DOT) rahul.net:

In article <vmsa22tspdo2siointct4q0j85juft2qf3 (AT) news (DOT) markshouse.net>,
Mark Goodge <usenet (AT) listmail (DOT) good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
So does 411. And I get the number a lot quicker than if I used my phone
to get onto the internet and browse for someplace to call.

That's your choice. But if you were in a foreign country, who would you
call?

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

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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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:31:59 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet (AT) listmail (DOT) good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

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

Pornography on a 1 inch square screen? Not even 14 year olds are going
to get off on that!

Matt

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:42:33 GMT, Adrienne Boswell
<arbpen2003 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

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.

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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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:31:59 +0000, Mark Goodge
<usenet (AT) listmail (DOT) good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:

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.

Er, not at all, texting is about communication, web-browsing is not,
they're very different things.

Jim.
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:19:56 +0000 (UTC), axlq (AT) spamcop (DOT) net (axlq)
posted something that included:

Well, that's interesting. Makes me wonder what the attraction is;
nothing on the web is so important that I need to use my phone to
access it. I can't imagine a more unpleasant way to browse.

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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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed jim (AT) jibbering (DOT) com (Jim Ley)
writing in news:442587fc.56612484 (AT) news (DOT) individual.net:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:42:33 GMT, Adrienne Boswell
arbpen2003 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

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.

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.

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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Paul Ding wrote:

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:19:56 +0000 (UTC), axlq (AT) spamcop (DOT) net (axlq)
posted something that included:


Well, that's interesting. Makes me wonder what the attraction is;
nothing on the web is so important that I need to use my phone to
access it. I can't imagine a more unpleasant way to browse.


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.

Just please stop cross-posting.

John

Paul Ding wrote

a 1923 Snidley dillythumper

These were known for throwing con-rods. Anything post-23 is desirable.

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Baldoni wrote

Just please stop cross-posting.

Looks like someone's cage just got rattled.

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In article <e03qcr$g77$2 (AT) blue (DOT) rahul.net>, axlq (AT) spamcop (DOT) net (axlq)
wrote:

Frankly, I still don't
see the attraction to mobile phone web browsing. I guess it can be
a convenience in some cases, but most of the time I think it would
be more efficient to get information other ways.

Well, if you are downtown and you need some information, you have the
following options:
1) Find the information on the Web on your cell phone.
2) Find an Internet café, then find the information on the Web.
3) Phone a friend or family member who is willing to act as a voice
interface to the Web.

Option #1 seems obviously desirable to me. Option #3 is more efficient,
but its applicability depends on the willingness of your friends/family
to act as a voice interface.

Personally, I get rather annoyed if I try to do #1 and the info is
behind a Flash intro that in impenetrable to Opera Mini.

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