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Do you really carry anything in your pockets? I find it very uncomfortable.
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A “mobile” phone in a pocket surely restricts my movements, especially sitting. Personally sometimes I use a briefcase just for my phone and keys. It’s heavier but you may put it on your knees. Also it looks better than stuffed pockets. Article and presentations are very nice indeed.
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For the briefcase you need one hand, ot you need to be sitting in order to put it on your lap. I intentionally choose phones that fit in a pocket comfortably, and I’m not happy with that stupid trend of phone size increasing to the point when even men’s pockets are not enough.
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I carry my phone, phones, house keys, work keycard and tissues, I wouldn’t survive with women’s pockets.
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I usually add a wallet and a small bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer which is really great if you are eating something on the go.
I’d like to add that roughly one in 15 people worldwide has a form of diabetes and that a large portion of them also carries medication and a sugary and a salty snack as treatment.
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I would approach someone like Iridium and see if they want the PR for this.
In particular, their https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-go/ comes to mind.
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Given that you mostly are below 50 KB and that you specifically mentioned Ebola, I assume that a large portion of the work is done in Africa.
In this case it seems like you are exactly the kind of customer the satellite company Thuraya is targeting. See http://www.thuraya.com/pricing-plans for tariff plans. They bundle satellite and roaming charges and there is also a coverage map of the network on that site.
Their coverage is not suitable for maritime use or use in the America’s, but it works in most of the rest of the world.
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Called them, waiting for more information, they work through resellers I guess, and the resellers provide and SDK. Basically the units cost around £600 (~$800USD) not including the data plan and you have to use their iridium go app on the phone which has apps in it that are set up to work on the connection, so you can’t use a native app. As well the data is metered in something called go! minutes. Waiting for more information from them.
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Maybe try talking to Viasat?
They might appreciate the PR/tax write off.
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Holy these guys look hardcore, military grade systems. Doing some more digging into this one to see what kind of offerings they have. Thank you.
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Strictly speaking, they’re just a small satellite-based ISP. ;)
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I love to see how both Google and Samsung completely miss the mark with the size of their mobile phones. There were clearly not enough woman involved in the development of those phones.
My partner puts hers into a second separate pouch on a belt which she wears specifically to solve this problem. She hates large handbags and she does need the larger phone for power and usability. Sometimes she adds a photo camera to her belt too, because it still takes the better pictures. And it doesn’t look shabby at all, but it took her a long time to find something stylish that was also functional.
How did they miss the mark though? Their phones sell very well and people clearly want the bigger size. It’s the pants companies that missed the mark or maybe the consumers who keep buying pants that don’t suit their needs.
Well, it’s not like the size of pockets in women’s clothing, has changed significantly over the last 20 years. In my daily life I see a lot of women still using their iPhone SEs or Samsung Galaxy S3 minis and older smaller phones. When I ask them about this, the argument always goes like this: “I do want a newer and better phone, but they are so big! If only I could carry them around without a purse!”. When I reply: “Don’t you have pockets?” the reply to that is usually something along the lines of: “But bigger pockets make my pants look baggy!”.
Up to this point, you could still argue that it’s the fault of clothing manufacturers, but all changes once you take a closer look at women’s bodies, clothing and how the two of them fit together. Once you’ll do, you’ll realise that it’s a (not so) simple matter of geometry. Women’s hips and behinds are usually more curved then men’s. Where men can fit a large flat 5,5” phone, women usually can’t without fearing that they’ll bend or break it at some point. Also most men don’t care that they have somewhat more bulgy pockets, while for many woman this is an absolute showstopper.
I should also note that while my partner does have the average women’s body, but she doesn’t have the average women’s attitude towards technology because she also is a software engineer in daily life. From other women, she often gets the question “Don’t you think your phone is a little on the large side of things?”. If the situation allows it, she replies by opening an ssh-session and showing other women that you’ll need the size to conveniently type the commands, but that is also the only reason she didn’t settle on a smaller phone.
Men usually just ask her: “Hey! Do you have that phone? I’m considering to buy that one as well! Can I have a look?”.
So to sum things up: Women do want bigger, better and faster phones. If only they could make it work in daily life and it’s not only a matter of just putting bigger pockets in clothing. The aesthetics and socal aspects play a huge role for the other gender as well, which gives you contradictory objectives to solve for.
Note: My experiences might just be due to the area of Europe I live in, but over here, it’s a pretty obvious issue which has largely been overlooked by 2 of the 3 big phone manufacturers.
It sounds like these woman have a conflict of interest. You either use a small phone, buy pants with big pockets or use a handbag. I acknowledge the social aspects at play but if you won’t buy pants with large pockets or a handbag then you will have to buy a small phone. And there is nothing wrong with small phones, I personally find many of todays phones too big. My thumb can’t reach half the screen on some of these new phones.
I think the big phone OEMs would have looked at this and decided that adding an extra range of phones for small pants pockets won’t sell enough to make it worth it.
I would not phrase it as a conflict of interest, but rather as modern smartphones being blatantly oversized and having terrible usability. Don’t forget that it’s women that make about 80%, and have a strong influence on more than 95% of all consumer decisions. Reading the market wrong and building products that most of them are physically unable to use in a comfortable manner due to the size of the product and the physical size and shape of the bodies of such a large and powerful group of end users could be a deadly sin for an OEM.
Women do need bigger pockets in the literal sense, but the purpose of this thread was to get the idea across that finding clothing with bigger pockets is often very hard, if not impossible. I’ve previously elaborated that even if they can find clothes with bigger pockets, bigger devices don’t fit into those pockets because of the physique of women’s bodies. I’ve combined that with my own observations and concluded that, even if the OEMs have looked into this, they are hitting the wrong notes with a very large group of potential customers and I still think the clickable animations in the article of the original post show this in a very neat way.