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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I like how before there's any decent actual *content* on mobile TV, there's already ads. Nice ;).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deluxe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 8:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[No wonder Gizmondo offered up their "Smart Ads" as collateral on a bridge loan. It's now practically worthless.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 9:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I dont have a problem as long as it is an opt in scheme, ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[frankie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 9:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I dont have a problem as long as it is an opt in scheme, ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[frankie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 9:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[This doesn't sound like such a bad thing, as long as the consumer still has a choice. As cell phones become a near necessity no matter who you are, anything that eases the cost burden on low-income customers is going to be welcomed. I can even see location-based advertisements as being a benefit to travelers. I hope that if something like this goes into practice, there is a way to "pull" local ads in addition to the ads that will presumably be "pushed" onto your phone, for example when I want to find someplace nice to eat in a town I'm passing through for the first time.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 10:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why would they putting ads on a 3650 considering Verizon and Sprint/Nextel never offered that phone! But I would take the ads if they made my bill lower and were silent and interruptible if I needed to make a call.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Evan Brom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 10:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't have a problem, as long as it's an opt-in scheme *AND* there are no significant penalties for not opting in. If you get a 33% discount on your monthly rental for opting in, suddenly the base price will rise so that those who've opted in are paying more or less what they were before, and everyone else is paying through the nose. See US supermarket loyalty cards for a perfect illustration of this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TC]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 10:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[TC,<br><br>This is why I don't shop at Kroger, although I'm sure there are other places that have "loyalty" cards as well.  I'm not going to pay MORE than what I pay at Wal Mart with the Kroger "discount" card, I'll just go to Wal Mart where they stab the people they buy from in the wallet instead of the consumer..  Oh well.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khaytsus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 10:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I could i sell space on the insides of my eyelids to freaked out advertisers trying to justify their existence.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 10:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[Um so let me get this straight we are supposed to pay our cell phone providers to view the content which will soon be riddled with ads. I'm not paying for something which has already been paid for. I'll pay to watch what i want to watch but I wont pay to watch ads, especially knowing that the provider already got paid for carrying the ad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cicily]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 11:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I hate it. They already suck you dry with their confusing plan schemes. You actually think they are going to charge less? They'll raise their rates (regardless), then let you keep paying what you did before at best.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 11:58AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think that there would  be many people who wouldnt mind getting a discount on their cellphones.  I cannot bring my cellphone into work, so it stays off for a good amount of time every day. I wonder if that would make a difference or not in the discount..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[eMarrs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 12:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[Uh - no.  Sorry.  Thats where I draw the line.  "Opt-in" is a crock and "opt-out" means you get dumped into the poorest of services.  Trust me.<br><br>When are people going to get it.  We dont want to be bombarded with advertisements.  I havent changed phones since 1999 and wont so long as it workds because a phone is a phone is a phone - I dont need to list to crap music or take fruity pictures of girls underwear while on line for lunch or have any desire to walkie-talkie ANYONE.   <br><br>The Einsteins at phone companies better realize and realize it quickly that there is a growing majority of people who cant even place a traditional damn call because someone is uploading their latest photo-shoot and they're jamming their pictures down the pipe hogging all the resources.  <br><br>There is NO NEED for that crap.   You phone execs will find out real soon when a good 35-40% of us just STOP using cell phones PERIOD.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MIKE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 2:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[does the 3650 count as old-skool yet? cause i'm still rockin' that shiznit, natch. <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 18th 2006 2:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile carriers to test out tiny ads for tiny screens]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/18/mobile-carriers-to-test-out-tiny-ads-for-tiny-screens/</guid><description><![CDATA[Phil the 3650 is definately old-skool... but hey i rock it... Symbian Series 60 still tastes pretty good]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SysOp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 19th 2006 2:47PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
