DISQUS

Mobile Industry Review: The 45 year old iPhone lady watching Prison Break on the train

  • Ms. Jen · 11 months ago
    Shall we all agree to drop the heinous "normob" now that a variety of folks from various slices of life are using fun feature packed mobiles?
  • Ewan · 11 months ago
    I wonder if we could put this lady into a "pronob" category?
  • Anthony Carroll · 11 months ago
    The second most amazing thing is that she had something sounding like reliable reception on the train!
  • Ewan · 11 months ago
    Heh. I've used my iPhone 3G data very successfully on that line. My
    issue is that 45 minutes of iPhone joy used up half the battery.
  • Anthony · 11 months ago
    It wasn't a dig aimed solely at the iPhone, I'm talking with bitter experience with a bunch of handsets on a bunch of networks that I've had reception issues with heading to and from London on SouthWestTrains.
  • Where's Mike? · 11 months ago
    I've always preferred people to wear pink anoraks metaphorically! And what happened with the margarine?
  • KevanM · 11 months ago
    I'd normally be on the 'it's all about the user' side of the fence and agree with your normob, promob types, but .....

    I think this is another iphonemob type. It's lets you do things that everything promises but doesn't really encourage your normob type.

    I've a three year old 'newmob' that uses mine for Peppa Pig! iTunes is still too much for her, but by the time she's four ...........
  • Constantine · 11 months ago
    This is the kind of stuff that I wish my colleagues would read and learn from because I don't think they get it, I honestly don't.

    Waiting on that iPhone with a keyboard or at least a less shit camera.