Delicious GSM Cell Phones for Dessert
When shopping for GSM cell phones, get only one that will really be useful to you. Okay, so that’s not earth-shattering advice, but it bears repeating for you’d be surprised how many people fall prey to marketing hype and purchase handsets completely at odds with what best suits their actual real-world usage patterns. Curiously enough, the widespread availabilty of mobile technology may be a contributing factor to such phenomena: known to our Gallic friends as embarass de riches. This is to say, the cornucopia of choices out there seem to confuse people more than anything else.
Those who study consumer psychology are familiar with this phenomenon. From GSM cell phones to just about anything else, folks simply have a tough time dealing with too many options, feeling anxious and ever more confused. But while that may seem strange, it actually makes a certain sense, in the final analysis. Consider that about half of humanity — the half known as “guys” — hate to shop. And why’s that? Generally, it has to do with instant gratification. They want to “get it over with.” Not even a quick and simple purchase will ameliorate this feeling of annoyance, eve with something such as picking up groceries on the way home from work. Imagine how much more annoying it could be when it comes to technology products!
Now, of course, most guys like electronic gadgets — because guys like toys in general. They like objects they can manipulate. Yet modern technology offers a bewildering array of capabilities, with feature-sets that no one but true geeks and nerds would really like to spend time studying…and most guys do not take pride in being geeks.
And let’s not forget the ladies, yes. These are people who often love to shop, but who find technology purchases none too interesting.
Thus many if not most cell phone buyers couldn’t really care any less about the plethora of competing features available on the market today. Small wonder, no, that they resort to marketing hype to simplify the decision-making process? And so people may wind up with thingamajigs that not only do not help them, but may actually hinder their actual wireless communications needs!
So when in the market for a cell phone, a little introspection of sorts is in order. What exactly do you need to do with a handset anyway? Do you need to send audio-visual material? Surf the web? Receive e-mail? Will you need WiFi capabilities as well, or would the data stream of your carrier’s cellular network suffice?