Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
As expected the Samsung Q1 has not exactly opened to rave reviews from the critics. In fact, all round they seem to have panned it.
As many have critics have pointed out, including yours truly, the
Samsung Q1 is underpowered yet too power hungry, small to but too big
to be wearable, less functional than low-end notebooks but more
expensive.
Not being a tablet PC fan anyway, I couldn’t see what the fuss was all
about with the new Samsung device. However, it seems that I’m not alone.
The Samsung Q1 costs around $1100, which is enough to buy a pretty
decent laptop. However, it has no keyboard, no DVD drive, an
underpowered processor, a tiny screen (7-inch), hads limited battery
life and is too big to fit in your pocket. Sure it has a pretty decent
amount of memory (512M of RAM) and storage (40G hard drive). It also
has Bluetooth, WiFi and two USB ports.
As I noted in my previous article, mobile workers in transit want to
type documents, read them and maybe watch a DVD in their spare time.
For that a nice compact notebook serves the purpose well. If they’re in
the street or parked in the car, they may want retrieve emails, SMS
messages or make a phone call. For that, smartphone device like a Treo
or Blackberry is perfect. A field sales representative may want to
check stock items in a store against what’s in the inventory database
and generate an order to replenish the store’s stock. A pocket PC is
the most popular type of device for that type of application.
With no DVD drive, keyboard or decent sized screen, and just over two
hours battery life, one wonders what applications the Samsung Q1 hopes
to address that aren’t already being handled. Reading online newspapers
perhaps? I doubt whether being able to download newspapers and read
them on a seven inch screen will do it for people who are being asked
to shell out $1100.
For most people, their notebooks, smartphones, or PDA will continue to
do the jobs they were designed for. It seems the Samsung Q1 is a device
without an application that can’t be handled better by something else
which is cheaper and more practical.
David Bass
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