Or so announced full page color ads in Sunday newspapers across the country. The "messaging phones" according to the ad are:
- BlackBerry Pearl
- LG enV
- Blackberry Curve
- LG Voyager
If you're thinking those sound like the same old phones that use to be called smart phones, you're right. What's changed is that carriers have started to take note of what their subscribers are doing with all that smart phone horsepower: texting. There is no other application (that requires the air waves) that even comes close to texting, it is the killer mobile application.
So consumers are once again leading the way. And if this keeps up, more and more mobile "cloud" applications will too. Then the only thing to worry about is the performance and reliability of those applications. We'll leave that for another day, after all it is Sunday.
I guess America's most reliable network has finally caught up with its customers. (Will the folks that created the original - and still the best - application for texting catch-on? We'll see when the Palm Pre debuts later this year.)
