Two Thousand dollars a year for a typical family’s telecommunications budget sounds about right.  My cell phone bill is 2100.00 per year, my cable, internet, phone bill is 1700 per year and another phone i have costs 450 per year.  My total telecommunications budget is over 4000 per year!     Interesting!  Seth Godin thinks my bill ought to be about half what it is (actually, he did not say that)…here’s what he said:

$2000 a year

That’s how much the typical family in the US spends on telecommunications. It’s certainly one of the highest discretionary items in a typical budget, and it’s particularly surprising given that long distance is a fraction of what it used to be.

So, David Troup points us to Helio, a phone/toy for teenagers and those that think like them (the phone, with built in music and video capability, is primarily sold at record stores, at least in NY). I give them credit for tapping into a desire that consumers are already voting for with their dollars. Is it a killer app for geezers like me? Nope. And that may be exactly why it works.

The Helio looks like a cool device - I’m assuming the pictures posted in the Helio blog are taken with the Helio device.