GasBum Adoption Rate and Data Plans

I’ve been receiving a tremendous amount of positive feedback on GasBum. It’s been a fairly slow process of getting the application out there but it’s gradually beginning to pick up. At any rate I’ve been suprised with the amount of friends and family that don’t have any sort of data plan for their devices. What amazes me is the fact that every other commercial on TV is about downloading video or MP3s to your device over the air.

It makes me step back and think for a minute how well is data really doing? I think it still turns out that the killer application for mobile devices is voice. The next big thing is most likely email. With that being said I think the market has a LONG ways to go before we can expect to see the number of users with data plans come anywhere close to those with broadband. It’s a tough market for developers writing application that are data intensive. I know Apple/Cingular are pushing the new ROKR phone, but I think the adoption rate will be slow.

Sorry to get off on a tangent and a lot of the GasBum users are having connectivity issues. I don’t know if this is an issue with a data plan not being available or security restrictions on the device. At any rate I’ve posted a network connectivity MIDlet that users can download if they’re having problems with GasBum.

The feedback has been great and if you have any suggestions or problems then please post them here.