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I'm afraid my fone is positively vintage, it's served me very well..I can use it on any network, wherever I am I will find a sutiable carrier signal and is nigh on indestructable...low and behold it's able to both make and receive calls with a special little add on that I can even send little text messages with...anyone remember when such a device had just the minimal of tasks in life 😳
31 Dec 10
Originally posted by RevRSleekerAmen on that one, brother! A few years ago we got a family plan with 4 Motorola Razors. It sort of does texting, and has a nice camera and oh yeah, you can talk on it.
I'm afraid my fone is positively vintage, it's served me very well..I can use it on any network, wherever I am I will find a sutiable carrier signal and is nigh on indestructable...low and behold it's able to both make and receive calls with a special little add on that I can even send little text messages with...anyone remember when such a device had just the minimal of tasks in life 😳
Problem was, still is, all 4 went dead within the first year and had to be replaced. So now my wife's phone doesn't ring half the time or vibrate. So she doesn't know when a call comes in half the time.
So off we went to the T Mobile store to see about a replacement. So what do I see is WALLS full of internet phones, text keyboards, internet connection a REQUIREMENT to use all those phones (what the heck happened to just wanting voice?) So what about the little flip phones we had? There was a total of THREE out of hundreds of those internet capable monsters. And one of those was out of stock. Tell me, do you think I was feeling, oh, I don't know, MANIPULATED?
And the kicker was this: the three stupid flip phone camera's left didn't have half the pixels of the the old Razor. So that means that they were foisting off old technology in order to sell off old stock. Also, last month we paid 214 bucks for the 'privilige' of having 2 cell phones. This whole cell phone thing is such a crock of shyte I can't believe it. The entire world civilization tied down to cell phones, texting, texting, texting. Yeech. What ever happened to just frigging TALKING to one another?
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Originally posted by sonhouseLol, you hit the nail on the head there 🙂 I've been 'tempted' a couple of times into the so called, 'better, improved' models but one thing or another failed so quickly I gave up hope. One fone I had had a bloody marvellous camera, as good as anything for the money of camera alone, but it was never meant as a stand alone product and like all the rest of the features, the fone seemed of secondary importance...it failed after a brief trip to the beach maybe 4mths into a contract, not the camera from sand ingestion as might be expected but the ringer and the 'thing' that played songs from its memory gave up the ghost, it never properly rang nor played tunes again...sometimes I'd get low level murrrrmerring and then a full blast horn, there was plainly a problem and the operater saw fit to write it off, I've never worked out just how feable these new devices really are. I did try again though, a modern version of my now current car fone. First the pixels started to go funny ( seems there is a recurrent theme here between our experiences..I think our grievances must be high up on the list of faults ! ) and not long after the screeen became unreadable, again it had so many other features the fone was plainly confused and upset at being so readily usurped with other 'side by side' technologies..I was blamed for this fault, 'too heavy handed' and we mutually agreed that they could keep their fancy fones and I'd just pay for the calls I make..I saved a little with now not needing insurance etc.. the cost imposed on the customer for the apparent 'free fone' is really rather a lot ( about 30% of inclusive package but you cannot get them to divide the package up, only if acontractual issue will they consider it as in my case ).. all these things opened my eyes to the benefits of having a really reliable and comparitively simple fone !! I have a year 2000 model nokia 6210i and I have the slightly later but with little additions 6310i also as a back up, both have dual sim but can operate any operaters network as they're multi band..they do have bluetooth and WAP, I guess this is very old hat now but I've no need for either 🙂
Amen on that one, brother! A few years ago we got a family plan with 4 Motorola Razors. It sort of does texting, and has a nice camera and oh yeah, you can talk on it.
Problem was, still is, all 4 went dead within the first year and had to be replaced. So now my wife's phone doesn't ring half the time or vibrate. So she doesn't know when a call comes in ha g, texting, texting. Yeech. What ever happened to just frigging TALKING to one another?
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31 Dec 10
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Originally posted by RussBecause of - no surprise there - exactly that kind of behaviour from Apple.
"Geinimi has only been found being distributed through third-party Chinese app stores."
This story must be sponsored by Apple. Why on earth would anyone download an app from such a place.
I used to have a love-hate relationship with Apple, but I must say that over the last couple of years it has changed to a hate-love relationship.
Richard
31 Dec 10
Originally posted by Russ¡sƃuıɥʇ pooƃ ƃuıʞɐɯ ʇnoqɐ llɐ ʍouʞ ǝsǝǝuıɥɔ ǝɥʇ ǝsnɐɔǝq
"Geinimi has only been found being distributed through third-party Chinese app stores."
This story must be sponsored by Apple. Why on earth would anyone download an app from such a place.
More here :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/31/china_android_trojan/
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