World’s first ‘newspaper’ phone launched in Sweden

[jay2000]

Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter said Wednesday it had launched the world’s first “newspaper” telephone: a mobile phone offering the daily’s subscribers direct and free access to its website. “We want our readers to be able to follow the news even when they’re in places where they cannot lay their hands on a paper or (access the Internet on) a computer,” Thorbjoern Larsson, Dagens Nyheter (DN) editor-in-chief and publisher, told AFP. “This is yet another way of distributing the news,” he added.

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[jay2000]

This is awesome cant wait to get one when it hits USA

[ajk]

I'm not completely sure what the innovation here is though, it has been possible to browse the internet (news papers included) via a mobile phone for a long time, and data transfers aren't so expensive any more. I'd rather choose my mobile freely.

[Taktaal]

This is going to be a huge failure. Who wants to read the news on a tiny phone screen when the only place where you'd even have a reason to do it - the train - has lots of free newspapers just lying around.

[Shinigami-Sama]

This is going to be a huge failure. Who wants to read the news on a tiny phone screen when the only place where you'd even have a reason to do it - the train - has lots of free newspapers just lying around.

people said the same thing about texting

now all the 16y/o girls are txting their bff jill even though they sit right beside each other in first and third block
:rolleyes: