In Om’s very positive review of the Sprint Audiovox 6601 Pocket PC phone, he writes, “I personally feel that Microsoft should stop trying to get into all general purpose phones and instead focus on these high end devices which make life easier for the ‘enterprise user.'” That made me wonder: is Microsoft marketing these devices to anybody besides enterprise users (we geeky early-adopting types, aside)? I think the genius of something like, say, the Sidekick II, is that it has moved keyboard-based messaging into a form factor and a user interface that even sassy debutants don’t mind busting out in public. I don’t know that the target demographics’ optimal form factors are mutually exclusive (in concept), but I can promise you that no one—even the enterprise user that Audiovox is targeting—really wants to pull something this ugly out of their pocket in the middle of a restaurant.
God I’m deep.
The Next Hot Pocket PC [GigaOm]
