iPhone owners smug, Palm Treo buyers less so
A US mobile phone survey has confirmed what some of us already know - that buying and owning an iPhone is a great thing to do. Palm handset owners may need to find crumbs of comfort elsewhere.
That’s because the ChangeWave survey shows that 72 per cent of iPhone owners are ‘very satisfied’ with their Apple-made touch phone, beating owners of rival mobiles from makers like RIM, LG, Sanyo, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Palm came bottom of the pile with just 30 per cent of owners saying they were ‘very satisfied’, according to Wired.
Of course, surveys are as notorious for what they don’t say as well as what they do - ChangeWave hasn’t revealed how many owners were just ’satisfied’ (ie just happy) with their current mobile, which - if you think about - it probably the overwhelming majority of us. This is why Palm, in particular, has taken umbrage at the ChangeWave stats.
Palm’s Paul Loeffler has instead put forward a Satmetrix survey that shows that 65 per cent of Palm owners gave their handsets 8-10 out of 10. Loeffler also quotes another Russell Research survey that shows 56 per cent of Palm owners are either ‘very satisfied’ or ‘extremely satisfied’. It won’t surprise you to learn that both surveys were commissioned by Palm.
tech.co.uk