Comments on: Thoughts on Airplane Mode and (Dis)Connectivity http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/thoughts-on-airplane-mode-and-disconnectivity.html Ideas & Trends Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:15:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jan Chipchase on Researching in the Field | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/thoughts-on-airplane-mode-and-disconnectivity.html/comment-page-1#comment-210991 Jan Chipchase on Researching in the Field | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:58:59 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=15207#comment-210991 [...] Last week we had the privilege of attending Tiger.Blam, an eye-opening discussion put on by frog design and IxDA featuring Nokia field researcher Jan Chipchase. Though not trained as an anthropologist, Chipchase makes a living by learning first-hand about how people interact, work, and - just generally - live with and without technology. He openly shares his experiences via his blog, where he posts some of the research he does to inform Nokia design as well as his own musings on the future of connectivity (we’ve featured several of his insights here before). [...] [...] Last week we had the privilege of attending Tiger.Blam, an eye-opening discussion put on by frog design and IxDA featuring Nokia field researcher Jan Chipchase. Though not trained as an anthropologist, Chipchase makes a living by learning first-hand about how people interact, work, and – just generally – live with and without technology. He openly shares his experiences via his blog, where he posts some of the research he does to inform Nokia design as well as his own musings on the future of connectivity (we’ve featured several of his insights here before). [...]

]]> By: It’s a Pirate’s Links for Me! at Social Honeycomb http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/thoughts-on-airplane-mode-and-disconnectivity.html/comment-page-1#comment-136666 It’s a Pirate’s Links for Me! at Social Honeycomb Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:17:58 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=15207#comment-136666 [...] Thoughts on Airplane Mode and (Dis)Connectivity: when does a phone stop being a phone? [...] [...] Thoughts on Airplane Mode and (Dis)Connectivity: when does a phone stop being a phone? [...]

]]> By: Floyd Hayes http://www.psfk.com/2008/09/thoughts-on-airplane-mode-and-disconnectivity.html/comment-page-1#comment-136567 Floyd Hayes Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:06:14 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=15207#comment-136567 But in the spirit of the future perfect is the 3G iPhone really a phone? And broadening the scope of the question - is there a point in the evolution of mass market mobile phones that cellular connectivity as we understand it today is perceived not as a core feature, but as an optional extra? At what point is ‘Airplane Mode’ relabeled as, as…? I'm too tired today to translate that colossal sentence into English. All I know is, I'm flying to the UK tonight and can't wait to turn off all gadgets. I adore watching British comedy while having Stella handed to me by nice ladies. But in the spirit of the future perfect is the 3G iPhone really a phone? And broadening the scope of the question – is there a point in the evolution of mass market mobile phones that cellular connectivity as we understand it today is perceived not as a core feature, but as an optional extra? At what point is ‘Airplane Mode’ relabeled as, as…?

I’m too tired today to translate that colossal sentence into English.

All I know is, I’m flying to the UK tonight and can’t wait to turn off all gadgets. I adore watching British comedy while having Stella handed to me by nice ladies.

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