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What Do Consumers Want in a Cell Phone?

MSNBC article - link

A phone’s price, design and weight remain at the top of the list, with “camera capabilities ranking very high,” said Jerry Rocha, an analyst for Telephia, a research company that focuses on the mobile and telecommunications market.

Call me a Neanderthal but I'd just like for the damn thing to work like a *phone* then work on adding all of the other crap.

I am in the process of creating a script that I can take to the Cingulars and T-Mobiles of the world to test individual phones to see if they meet my needs based around the way I work before I buy another phone. As for when this script will be complete, the over/under is at twelve months with the smart money going to the over.