Continuing with the rules and methodologies, I will interview six people in order to better understand their cellphone usage for 14 days by asking each person the same questions about the strengths, weaknesses, and the convenience about each popular cellphone. Here are some questions that I am interesting in asking the users:
- What phone do you have?
- Why did u choose this phone?
- What are its strengths?
- What are its weaknesses?
- Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
- Did you have any obstacles/problems with this phone?
- If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another one?
- Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
Post #1:
1. What phone do you have?
I have a brand new Iphone 4 that I just got about a week ago, which it now has a pretty high demand.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
I chose Iphone 4 because of several reasons. First is because it really is an attractive phone, and it is the latest generation of apple Iphones. Second, Iphone 4 is intelligent. It owns bunches of brilliant softwares that makes me love it. In addition, since so many people love this new phone, I feel good when I am holding it.
3. What are its strengths?
I can use multi-tasks at the same time. Also, I can download as many applications as I desire, and the only limitation that I have is how much the phone can contain. The long lasting battery is another element that makes me like the phone. Moreover, I also feel like it’s really convenient for those who love texting messages because of its sensitive touch screen even though I am not one of them. Furthermore, Iphone 4 has even more functions and features than the first three generations. It is like a mini computer to me, and sometimes I use it instead of my laptop. It also has a feature called Facetime, which I can use as a webcam. Last but not least, I can use it everywhere or anytime to browsing webs because of the data that I must have in order to has an Iphone.
4. What are its weaknesses?
I have to pay for data for at least 15 dollars per month. However, the network is sometimes slow. Also, I experienced some drop calls.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using the phone?
Although there are some small weaknesses, I still really enjoy using it.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with this phone?
Yes, I did have some problems with using this phone on the first days, but they were fixable. Now, I am getting used to it and have no problems with it but fun and enjoyable.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
I love this phone, and I feel very satisfied when using it.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
I think Iphone 4 is additive not only to me but to many other people. I just bought it a week ago, but I was always playing with it. I just want to download applications, games, and softwares and plays around with it. Sometimes, I leave other things that I should do aside and browse around with my Iphone.
Post #2:
1. What phone do you have?
I have a Nokia N95 in black color which I am gifted from my boyfriend.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
This Nokia has a 8GB built in memory, and it’s a 5.0 megapixel camera phone with a very good quality, just like a camera. It comes with FM and AM radio. GPS navigation and Wifi are available. Last but not least, it is very light and a music phone with many options to choose.
3. What are its strengths?
This Nokia lasts very long, I’ve been using it for 3 years and it still works very well. Its battery also lasts very long because this is a music phone once you charge it, it's good to go for 1 full day to play music. It can take pictures very fast and easy with a feature of 2 cameras built in, 1 in front and 1 on the back. Moreover, it provides a very loud and good quality outplay music. More important, the signal it has is stronger than many samsung and motorola cellphones that I had before.
4. What are its weaknesses?
This phone has few weaknesses. Its keypad sometimes won’t work right, a little slow but doesn't stuck while using it. Moreover, I need to restart it some time in awhile because it has a lot of memory built in. Also, I cannot text messages fast because of its keypad.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
Yes, I am satisfied when I am using this cellphone. It has a good camera, good quality music, GPS, wifi, so why not? Also, I often buy any skin cover and change the colors I want for a new look since this is one of very few cellphones that have this convenient option. Moreover, I can use this phone as a controller (remote control) for my car. Another thing that I love about this phone is I can directly plug-in to my TV and view my pictures, videos, music, and playing games as big as the TV screen is. I also can browse the web and check email anytime and very fast.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with the phone?
I think I’m good with this phone because I already get used to it, and I just love it. In fact, I do have some problems with it, but it’s not a big problem that I need to throw it.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
Yes, I like this cellphone very much, so I might get another one if there is another chance.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
In my opinion, this Nokia is addicted to me because of its loud and clear sound and the pictures come out very nice too.
Post #3:
1. What phone do you have?
I have some cellphones including Blackberry, Iphone 3GS, and HTC. However, I want to talk about the Blackberry Bold 9780 which is the newest addition to the BlackBerry Bold series of smart phones and features a premium and iconic design. Moreover, mine is in black color.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
This BlackBerry Bold 9780 is a compact and stylish smartphone that offers a compelling blend of features, performance and design. It supports 3G networks around the world, as well as Wi-Fi connectivity and GPS for location-based applications. It comes with a 5 megapixel camera with a full complement of high-end features including continuous autofocus, scene modes, image stabilization, flash and video recording. It comes with an expandable memory card slot. Moreover, it is very light, easy to use keyboard and optical trackpad like a computer keyboard. It also a very popular cellphone.
3. What are its strengths?
My Blackberry runs very fast. Its battery lasts very long, usually I use it for two days and charge it once. Moreover, it has many features including flash camera, video recording, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi, and 3G. Also, its camera is up to 5 megapixel, and it has an expandable memory.
4. What are its weaknesses?
The weaknesses of this cellphone are the very few game applications installed and the camera itself doesn’t show the images clearly.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
Yes, I am very satisfied with this Blackberry Bold because it’s easy to text and dial for people who prefer hard keyboard than touch screen.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with the phone?
So far I don’t have many problems with this cellphone, except it’s sometimes lost signal.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
If there were another chance, I would buy this cellphone again to enjoy its many features and the nice sides of it.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
Yes, I think this Blackberry Bold is addictive since it has a nice look, and it’s a good phone which has a long lasting battery for a person who uses phone a lot like me.
Post #4:
1. What phone do you have?
I own a silver Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905 about a year now with a buying price of $450.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
I chose this phone because of its nice body with a 8.1 megapixel camera with flash and video recording.
3. What are its strengths?
It has hard keyboard for people who like using key pad. Moreover, it comes with a very bright and excellent flash light. In addition, 8.1 megapixel camera makes the pictures and the videos high quality. It works like a camera which has the autofocus option. The products turn out very bright and pretty. Another strength of this phone is that it carries a FM-AM station, GPS navigation system, Wi-Fi networking, and also video calling. Its Wi-Fi is really fast, which makes me browsing web quicklier. Also, it comes with T.V. output. Its speakers are really loud and clear. Furthermore, it has expandable memory.
4. What are its weaknesses?
Sony Ericsson C905 is a pretty good phone; however, it has some weaknesses. In specific, it’s not a smartphone. Moreover, it doesn’t carry a touch screen feature. Also the slide feature might make the phone loses signal easily.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
I don’t really think this phone has satisfaction since nowadays cellphones come out a lot more with many better features and nicer.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with the phone?
Yes, I do have problems with this cellphone. It has a small keypad for text messaging and pressing numbers. Also, its screen is easy to break because of the sliding feature. And the lens cover doesn’t really work well.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
I would buy another cellphone with this amount of money instead of picking this phone again.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
I don’t think using this Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot is additive because it just mainly about the camera and wifi, so it’s not really additive for me.
Post #5:
1. What phone do you have?
I bought this HTC HD2 on the day I opened my phone contract six months ago with a price of 150 dollars. It is in black color which is I believe it’s the only color.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
I chose this phone because it works like a computer which contains pocket office that including Microsoft words, power-point, and excel. It’s very convenient for student like me to use.
3. What are its strengths?
This cellphone has a 5.0 megapixel built in camera with two LED flash. It owns a largest touch screen which makes the pictures come out very large, a sensitive touch screen, and it has 65,000 colors which makes the images are more colorful and clearer. And it gets accessed with Youtube. It also can expand by the SD memory card. Moreover, it is easy to access with GPS navigation and Wi-Fi network. Plus, it’s a movie cellphone where we can download movies quickly and watch movies with a large screen and best quality.
4. What are its weaknesses?
The only weakness of this HTC is the main board of it is very easy to get ruined.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
Yes, I am very satisfied when using this HTC HD2 because it owns a lot of strengths that can be loved by users. Also, I can upgrade for a better battery.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with the phone?
So far, I don’t have any problem with this cellphone except the main board issue; however, I can ask for repair.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
Yes, if there is free HTC HD2 when renewing my phone contract, I would love to get this cellphone again.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
Yes, I am addictive to this cellphone. It’s like a mobile television for me to watch movies everywhere with the long lasting battery.
Post #6:
1. What phone do you have?
I have a Samsung Eternity II in blue color.
2. Why did u choose this phone?
I chose this phone because it was free and I decided to use it temporarily and change another one when I have the chance. Plus, it works just fine as other free cellphones.
3. What are its strengths?
It looks very girly, small, thin, light weight, and very neat. Also, it has AT&T Mobile TV support that allows users to enjoy live or time-shifted TV content for some monthly payment. In addition, it has an expandable memory card slot.
4. What are its weaknesses?
The touch screen feature is not very sensitive to touch and I usually get pissed because of this problem. Each time I am texting, the unresponsiveness of this phone makes me really don’t want to text anymore. Moreover it’s loading very slow. Also, it has only 2 megapixel built-in camera.
5. Are you satisfied when you are using this phone?
No, I am not satisfied when I am using this cellphone because it has very few features and options for users to choose or play around.
6. Did you have any obstacles/problems with the phone?
Yes, I experience a lot of problems when using this Samsung. It’s not a sensitive touching cellphone following the bad texting feature, not even good at taking pictures, and very slow.
7. If you have another chance, would you take this phone again or buy another ones?
If there is another chance, I will get another one instead of this phone.
8. Do you think your cellphone is addictive?
No, I don’t think my cellphone is addictive because it doesn’t have any game applications at all or any entertainments.
Conclusion:
Throughout the experiment, I had several conversations with the popular cellphones users, and I had learned a lot. My goal was to better acknowledged about each of the six cellphones that I did the interview, from the features to the strengths and weaknesses of each kind by asking questions each person with a different cellphone
Above are the interviewing results about different brands of cellphones that I have been doing for 14 days. Because the world is moving so fast, so is the technology. People get their cellphones that meet their wants superior than their needs, expensive cellphones, their excellent features, and their beautiful bodies are the main points that most users look at a phone. Therefore, I chose to do the most popular cellphone brands in the market including Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and Samsung. The first one that I happened to interview was the most popular, reliable, and favorite cellphone nowadays which was the Iphone 4. Following was the Nokia brand, another popular cellphone brand, and I picked the Nokia N95. Next was the Blackberry Bold 9870, another expensive cellphone that people like, following with a Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905, a HTC HD2, and a Samsung Eternity II.
Each phone has its own reason that makes people chose it. For example, younger people choose expensive/luxury and more options phones such as an Iphone 4. It has a very high demand and good feedback from the users, which includes a lot of new features that people desire and meet their wants. It is a mini laptop that people can use instead of a laptop, they can browsing web wherever they want because of the data that every users must have. However, elderly people like phones more simple which meet their needs. Moreover, people love music, they get the phones that focus more on music feature such as Nokia N95 is called a music phone. It has a lot of features that attract people except the touch screen option. On the other hand, HTC HD2 is a movie cellphone where we can download movies quickly and watch movies with a large screen and best quality. In addition, the users can upgrade the gram so that the phone can run faster. With the Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot C905, an excellent camera phone that carries a 9.0 megapixel. It has the ability to save the location of the picture where we take it. It’s best for the people that like to travel. About the blackberry, it is the phone for business people since it’s very fast specially on setting day and time for meeting or appointment, and for searching web and checking mail. Last but not least, Samsung is another popular brand, and I happened to interview the Samsung Eternity II. Even though it’s not a popular or expensive phone, it has all the needs and very cheap phone including the touch screen feature. Besides these strengths, each phone also has their own weaknesses whether the service of the phone or the clearness of images come out, etc. Throughout my interviewing, Iphone 4 is the cellphone that has fewer weaknesses and loved my a lot of people at any ages.
