What work is being done to understand the design needs of those markets?
On 2 June 2015 at 01:57, Gilles Dubuc gilles@wikimedia.org wrote:
The story behind that phone is cool, but I think the important part is the guy's analysis. This phone is becoming popular because it solves a couple of practical issues specific to parts of the African market at the moment. However should someone design a smartphone specifically for that market, focusing on battery life, I'm sure that these power bank phones would disappear.
Thus we probably shouldn't spend energy making something specifically for a phone like that, whose popularity might drop as fast as it rose when a better solution to those problems appears. If we happen to have something that works on that phone and get it on there, great. But spending too much energy on its might be a little futile, as it might not stick around for very long.
IMHO if we make a light app that can work with patchy network, consumes very little power and works on underpowered phones, basically the least common denominator, it might find its uses in those places. What I'm quite unsure, however, is whether the UX and the content we'd deliver would be interesting to people in that market. We shouldn't let the engineering cool factor of making a light app be the starting point (it's very tempting!), the users should be.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:
As long as the app works on it unlike Whatsapp and Facebook.. :) I do think it would be interesting to spend a quarter exploring a new market to understand how the changes we make can impact our presence in places other than the tried and tested USA/Europe etc...
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 29/05/2015 04:43, Adam Baso a écrit :
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Rachel diCerbo <rdicerb@wikimedia.org mailto:rdicerb@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Not certain if you guys are aware of this:https://medium.com/product-notes/the-mystery-of-the-power-bank-phone-taking-...
` What a great phone!
Would be nice to have the Wikipedia app preinstalled as well. If it is not powerfull enough, the Wikipedia lite app that has been showcased during the Lyon hackathon would be a good candidate.
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