tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799522112388854469.post-77058650017865273272007-08-07T08:52:00.000Z2007-08-07T09:07:51.086ZProfile of Peter Erskine (CEO of O2, mobile phone company) in yesterday's <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article2203864.ece">Times</a>. After the article, there is a bunch of the usual trivial questions, including "What gadget must you have?"<br /><br />To which Erskine replied "I guess it would have to be a toss-up between my sat-nav and my BlackBerry. I can’t choose one outright, but I know I’d be really lost without one of them."<br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />Has no-one told him that there are plenty of phones which will do Blackberry stuff and Satnav stuff? I bet Erskine is one of those chaps that carries around a Blackberry for e-mail, a high-spec but completely underused mobile for voice calls, and a PDA for a diary. Plus sat-nav.<br /><br />When all of those functions can easily be performed by one device (e.g. <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10385">Sony Ericsson M600</a>, all the Sony-Ericsson <a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp1_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10336">P-series phones</a>, loads of <a href="http://www.nokia.co.uk/link?cid=EDITORIAL_29266">Nokia smartphones</a>, etc.)<br /><br />If the boss of O2 hasn't figured this out, no wonder so few other people have.Bruce Greighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640374979490178541noreply@blogger.com