Maps 2.0 Report of the Week: Lunchtime Quickie

This week’s Report of the Week for the Maps campaign is a short but good one, a quickie from the lunch room:

so i was in the lunch room at my new job, a few days ago i had showed 2 of my coworkers how cool my phone’s camera was (xenon-flash) and so the 2 were eating lunch when i showed up. they again brought up the “man your phone is nothing that i’ve ever seen before” and i told them that nokia doesn’t do much subsidized carrier phones in the US for the more expensive ones. i told them i was an ambassador, and that my thinking the reason for this is that carriers would lock the phone down too much. i then showed them maps 2.0, and said “if this was a carrier-specific phone, i’d probably have to pay $10 a month just to use the GPS”
i quickly showed them how easy it was to get POI, how quick the GPS lock on was, and how you can get turn-by-turn. again, they were very into this world of “carrier-locked (they both had verizon, king of locking down phones here in the US). carlos had a moto Q (windows mobile) and was looking at the blackberry storm, and i told them the difference between the s60 phones that are unsubsidized and whatever they would want is the open-ness. $10 a month for GPS will add up.

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they were quite enthusiastic about s60 as a whole, and they did not know that GPS = free.
being in the carrier world, all they’ve ever known was that extras = carrier charges.

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