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I wish (Score:5, Funny)
I wish my cell phone always got me first post.
50% dumber. (Score:3, Insightful)
Whatever happened to phones that just made phone calls?
Re:50% dumber. (Score:4, Insightful)
That's every phone, if all you do is make phone calls.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:4, Informative)
That's every phone, if all you do is make phone calls.
That's not true. My phone reboots occasionally when trying to make or receive phone calls. It has never rebooted doing any of the other ancillary or unnecessary things, but the one thing that a phone should do unfailingly, it fails at about one time in ten.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:5, Insightful)
If you only make phone calls and disable everything else then all you are left with is tracking, which happens on the other end anyhow.
Endless spam? (Score:5, Informative)
How many marketing gimmicks do you respond to? I get a spam text maybe 30 to 60 days apart. I'm always surprised when I get one, they are that infrequent. And, of course, I NEVER respond to the damned things. If you are inundated with spam, you might reconsider your use of the phone. Do Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all have your phone number? DUHHH!
Re:Endless spam? (Score:2)
Re:Endless spam? (Score:3)
I can imagine that if you made a Facebook post, "Caroline, call me on my new phone, 412-555-1212, I need to talk to you!" you might expect a ton of spam soon.
I guess my post implied something that I didn't quite mean. TBH, Google knows my phone number, it's part of my two-step verification. I've never been spammed as a result of that. But, posting my number anywhere on my G+ account would be a guarantee of endless spam. Hell, my groups already spam the hell out of my email. Seems about one notification in twenty is some fool trying to drum up business.
Re:Endless spam? (Score:4, Informative)
How many marketing gimmicks do you respond to? I get a spam text maybe 30 to 60 days apart. I'm always surprised when I get one, they are that infrequent. And, of course, I NEVER respond to the damned things. If you are inundated with spam, you might reconsider your use of the phone. Do Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all have your phone number? DUHHH!
Depends where he is from. In some countries (eg. India) all you need is to have a local phone SIM and the networks themselves will send SMS spam several times a day.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:5, Insightful)
I like having a computer I can carry in my pocket that makes phone calls. Can't see why any self respecting nerd would have a problem with them.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3, Insightful)
Paying a perpetual $1000 a year for the privilege is the problem I have with smartphones.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
"A fool and his money are soon parted."
I have an unlocked smart phone. One time cost: $300. I also have no-contract service plan with 300 minutes, unlimited SMS and unlimited data. Monthly cost: $35, total cost per year: $420.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
As of today, 20 Euros is approx. 27 dollars US.
So you're quibbling over 8 dollars US, or should I say roughly 6 Euros?
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
Finland 17 people per square km
United states 33 people per square km
Normal phone package at 20 euro's
5000 minutes+5000 messages.
max 21 mbit mobile net(where available) unlimited data.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
The united states has a higher % of urban population than finland, and if anything, with that big a scale, it should be easier to make it cheaper, not harder.....
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3, Insightful)
Bullshit, size is relatively unimportant.
Actually compared to finland, with it's low population density and extreme climate, 90% of the usa is piss easy to do.
It's just greed and cartel forming that are making it so bad and expensive in the USA.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
My data plan is only $240 per year (on top of a plan for just voice data that I'd be paying with a dumb phone anyway). If I really didn't want to pay it, I could rely on wi-fi networks or just use apps that didn't require the internet.
However, always having the internet with me is a far greater killer app than being able to be called everywhere as far as I'm concerned.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:5, Insightful)
Well... since management and users don't understand boundaries carrying something that enables me to work 100% of the time is a bad idea. Before anyone says well I wouldn't hire anyone that won't use email on their phone I will let you know that I refuse to work for anyone that expects me to answer email while I'm in the restroom or driving. Chances are if you stop mid-sentence to answer an email on your cellphone while doing an interview I will likely decline anyway.
Now when my kid stops mid-sentence or isn't listening because he got a text, email, or facebook post I get on his case for being rude.
When the clerk at the gas station doesn't look up from her cell phone long enough to tell me how much my purchase was and just holds out her hand I get annoyed.
Not that I don't like the idea of having a hand held computer that I can use anywhere it just doesn't work out the way I dream about it.
User number? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm using /. beta, and oddly your user number doesn't show.
I figure you're a low hundred thousands user number anyway. You sound like an old dinosaur, who learned manners before 1970. Today, no one learns manners - the concept has been discarded from American life.
Have you ever stopped at a fast food restaurant, walked inside, and found that you were on "ignore" until the person with the head set had cleared the drive thru? The guy at the counter, waving money at those kids is far less real than the voices on the headset.
Re:User number? (Score:3)
That isn't bad manners, that's instruction from upper management to prioritize the drive-thru customers over all else. Seriously, that's what they're supposed to do (and if they don't, they'll get fired).
you're pretty arrogant (Score:4, Insightful)
The voices in the headset also represent real people, and they were there before you.
Do you think that people that walk into a fast-food place are more important than the people who are in the drive-through (and therefore almost by definition are in a hurry)?
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
Whatever happened to phones that just made phone calls?
They're still out there, just like cars with manual transmission, typewriters, and LP record players. They have their passionate advocates, but most people with more functional devices that can do all that and more just shake their heads in confusion and mutter under their breath about old people and move on.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
Whatever happened to phones that just made phone calls?
They're still out there, just like cars with manual transmission, typewriters, and LP record players. They have their passionate advocates, but most people with more functional devices that can do all that and more just shake their heads in confusion and mutter under their breath about old people and move on.
One of these is not like the others... manual transmission is still very common (at least here in Aus) and gives better performance and petrol usage (and is cheaper).
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
Why the hate for manual transmission? Arguably I can do more with a stick shift than an automatic.
Stick transmissions are less convenient and don't really get much more than marginal benefits compared to modern automatics and CVTs in terms of fuel efficiency or power, especially since most drivers don't shift as efficiently as an automatic system can. Most drivers over-rev, and learning to drive efficiently is a skill that takes time and effort. A stick shift is more or less just the illusion of control.
Manual transmission is to car drivers what vacuum tube amplifiers are to guitar players. The only real advantage is cheaper maintenance.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
I have a 28 year old car, and other than fluid (oil/coolant/etc) changes I have no maintenance. Never had a problem with the engine itself. The cost of maintenance is far, far less than a $300 a month payment.
To the GP: the manual transmission where I am is like an anti-theft device. Nobody knows how to drive one anymore.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:5, Insightful)
Why the hate for manual transmission? Arguably I can do more with a stick shift than an automatic.
Stick transmissions are less convenient and don't really get much more than marginal benefits compared to modern automatics and CVTs in terms of fuel efficiency or power, especially since most drivers don't shift as efficiently as an automatic system can. Most drivers over-rev, and learning to drive efficiently is a skill that takes time and effort. A stick shift is more or less just the illusion of control.
LoL, spoken like someone who has never driven a manual.
A manual gives you a hell of a lot more control as you can chose when to change gears. Control is a very important thing for someone who is a driver, not just a steering wheel attendant. There is no illusion, the control is quite real. When you have one of those flappy paddle automatics, you push a button and ask "mother, may I please shift now" and hope the car lets you. With a manual, there's no way for the car to say no.
They are also a lot cheaper in the long run. An automatic is $2000 more expensive to buy in most cars which at $$1.50 per Litre here in Oz thats 1333.333 Litres. Now using the Subaru BRZ for example, manual is 7.8L/100 KM and the Sports Automatic gets 7.1, so lets say you actually attain those figures (with the auto this will be very, very hard) the cost difference is A$2600, doing 20,000 KM a year the manual costs $2340 whilst the auto costs $2130, the difference is $210 a year. So it takes over 9 years to make that cost difference back on the auto and you just have to hope there are no transmission problems because Auto's are a lot more expensive than manuals to fix.
All figures quoted from Redbook [redbook.com.au]
Whilst we're on this subject, I like my gearboxes to work. Auto's are more susceptible to problems (just look at the marque 6 DSG in Volkswagens).
Further more, most automatic gearboxes dont let you choose when you change gear, nor rev match and almost always shift too late on inclines and declines. Then there are those with selectable gears that just dont work, like Ford's SelectShift. There's always a noticeable lag with Automatic transmissions you simply dont notice if you dont know how to drive a manual. So much precision is lost with an automatic, however most steering wheel attendants aren't good enough drivers to notice.
Manuals are for drivers, they give you control and responsiveness that auto's lack. Like the GP I can do a lot more with my manual than any automatic. The only real trade off is the fact you have to pay attention to what you're doing. Considering the amount of people who cant stay off their phones or stop stuffing their faces in traffic this is not a bad thing.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
And even relatively "basic" drivers, like myself get the benefit of a manual when you have to drive a lot downhill and can just enginebrake instead of cooking your discs.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
Mod -1, wrong.
Automatics let you enginebrake just fine, usually by un-toggling the Overdrive switch or, for steeper inclines, shifting down from Drive to Second or "Low".
Re:50% dumber. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:50% dumber. (Score:4, Insightful)
Unfortunately, if you don't already have experience doing this, it's easy to insist that it has low value. Before I bought proper glasses that were comfortable on my face, I refused to wear corrective lenses and I was able to see to drive without them just fine (my vision is decent, I just can't read the road signs as far out) but when I began consistently wearing my glasses while driving, the advantage became clear and I feel pretty handicapped if I try driving without them.
The same naivete about manual transmissions can also be applied to high-performance engines. Having a motor with 130 hp vs. one with 200 hp is often mocked by those who think that "only someone wanting to put others in danger and race and drive recklessly needs more power," but you learn to appreciate it when you suddenly find that the more powerful motor changes your "a wreck is about to happen!" options from "slam brakes and pray" and "hope that you can steer in the other direction fast enough without losing traction or hitting someone" to then include "drop to third, stomp the gas, and get away from the hazard." I remember a few incidents where me rocketing away resulted in a dodgy driver who doesn't check blind spots before passing (as I'm being followed too closely to hit brakes) simply not running into me.
"automatic" != "fluid clutch" (Score:3)
I have a manual transmission vehicle, but you're not being accurate in your criticism.
The flappy paddle automatic transmissions on most supercars use one or two dry clutches, not torque converters. And in most fluid clutch systems you can shift down at least one or two gears using the shift lever.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
"Stick transmissions are less convenient "
Have fun push-starting your automatic after a CME or EMP takes out your electronics, or your battery dies, or your ignition goes bad.
"You drive an automatic? Well sir, kiss your ass goodbye, because when the chinese explode an EMP bomb above this city, your shit will break down and you'll be late for fucking work! Meanwhile, I'll be in the fast lane honking my horn at your ass for tying up traffic."
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
It's called John's Phone. They seem to be a bit on the out of business side however. Still, it was a good idea. It's just a cell phone. Nothing else. No address book, no texting, no surfing. Just a phone. With 2 week battery time.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:2)
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3)
I see your fancy "flip phone", and raise you the Easycall [gadgetguy.com.au].
Oversized buttons. Large font on the display. Actual physical switch to lock/unlock the keypad. A torch (also with physical switch), so you can find your reading glasses so you can find your TV glasses. Voice reads out the numbers as you dial. Voice also announces the name of the person calling when it rings or "texts" (and optionally reads out the texts, if the grandkids set it up for you.)
But wait, there's more. Flick this switch (again, physical) and it's an FM radio. Woo. Modern. (No headphones required, which is actually better than my so-called "smart" phone.) And the recharger on the newest model is a cradle, not a fiddly little plug that never goes in properly.
(Flip this switch on the back and it's a personal alarm and emergency pager alert. "Help. I have fallen and I can't get up.")
Actually got my Dad to buy one of these yesterday. Something went wrong with his old slider-phone, and I couldn't get there to set up a new handset. This was the only way I could be sure he could at least make and receive calls.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3, Informative)
Mod parent up.
For what, being a curmudgeon? If you don't want a smart phone, don't get one. Plenty of "just phones" out there. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/cell-phone [verizonwireless.com]
Okay, so the lowest end phone *also* has a camera. Quelle horreur! Dopes like this AC are the ones who wailed on me a few years ago for mentioning I liked my Kindle. "But I love *real* books! Those things are shit!"
Re:See cheap companies (Score:2)
Re:See cheap companies (Score:3)
What are you talking about? When my Galaxy S1's battery took a dump I couldn't find a replacement anywhere. The talk time was terrible and I found out the battery was swollen. I had to order in online, which then posed another problem: I don't have a land line, my cell was my only means of communication.
I went down to my carrier and found a dumb (well, they call them 'feature' phones now) flip phone for $90. Bought it, installed the sim card and I had a phone again.
I almost didn't go back to my smartphone cause I liked being able to use my phone for 3.5 days without charging. I had forgotten what that was like.
Re:I have an old blackberry (Score:3)
I have a GalaxyS3 now, and if I talk on the phone for a few hours my battery truly suffers for it. One time I got home from work with only 20% battery left, I was talking on the phone a lot that day.
On that dumb phone, I was talking a lot and it got the 3.5 days. That's just not possible with my S3, the best I got was standby time of almost 2 days, but I never used it during that time!
Re:See cheap companies (Score:4, Insightful)
Buy a low end Nokia and shut the fuck up.
Cool, you like basic phones. Luckily Nokia cater for you, from the Nokia 515 which is dumb-with-extras down to the Nokia 100 that does not even have a fucking camera. Now do you really need to go on EVERY FUCKING SMARTPHONE THREAD and scream "but what about me!?!?!".
I'd understand if you were completely uncared for, but I can buy a Nokia 515, 100-and-something and a Nokia 200-and-something from my local small supermarket and if I go on the Walmart home page I can get pages of dumb phones at all levels of dumbness. Pages and pages of the damn things.
So I can only conclude that you don't care enough about wanting a dumb for to actually look for one. You just want to be a "cool" and special and scream "look at me; I'm not like everyone else!"
I guess you are right; you are not like everyone else. Everyone else is capable of looking at the market and finding a device that meets their needs without first crying on the internet.
Feature bloat (Score:2)
All the phone features in world aren't much good if your battery is dead.
I bought an external battery that actually lets me use some of my phone's neat features like GPS and wireless for a worthwhile amount of time. I just have to carry the battery as well as the phone.
Cheers,
Dave
Re:Feature bloat (Score:3)
Re:Feature bloat (Score:2)
My LG Thrill (getting a little long in the tooth) might last a few hours with both GPS and WiFi on. Bluetooth doesn't drain it as fast as long as I have a paired device also on. Seems like any sort of "roaming/searching" really kills the battery. But the phone itself does that when I'm out of coverage.
Cheers,
Dave
had 50% better signal reception (Score:4, Informative)
Re:had 50% better signal reception (Score:2)
If we can have a femotocell that is basically a GSM to wifi bridge why can't our phones just make calls directly over wifi? My mobile signal at work is poor too, but wifi is fine.
Re:had 50% better signal reception (Score:2)
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57566261-251/five-great-android-wi-fi-calling-apps/ [cnet.com]
Re:had 50% better signal reception (Score:2)
I voted for "faster"....
Are you sure you are holding it right?
I see... maybe I am holding it too tight. If I let it go, it will probaby go *faster*... but in a more physical, downward velocity, sense.
that's what she said (Score:2)
50% more free (speech), privacy (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:50% more free (speech), privacy (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm holding out for a US deloyment of Firefox OS [wikipedia.org]
You can buy an unlocked, GSM, ZTE Open Firefox OS phone for $80. I have one. Works fine with an H2O Wireless (cheap AT&T) sim. It's fun and an impressive first release. It handles calls, email, messaging and web browsing fine, but don't expect it to be a complete replacement for an Android phone yet. Still rough around the edges.
Re:50% more free (speech), privacy (Score:2)
Re:50% more free (speech), privacy (Score:3)
I want a phone that can't be used to track me
They've had those for over one hundred years. They come into your house on a pair of copper wires. They aren't portable, which sucks, but they're cheap, and the man won't know where you're at.....
Seriously though, cell phone and "can't be used to track me" are mutually exclusive. You've been traceable since the days of AMPS.
Land lines are very traceable. Caller ID and a whitepages will quire reliably reveal your location. Users expect that. Cell phone users don't expect to be tracked physically [slashdot.org]. There's lots of data to be collected there since your location actually changes over time. VoIP on a cellphone makes your location relatively unknown; only the mobile provider knows where you are and that you're using VoIP, but if it's third party, that's all they know.
A mobile phone that turns off its cellular antenna when connected to usable wifi is harder to track but does not yet (afaik) exist. I don't need to go quite that far, but having a provider with a spine and a good privacy policy would be a great start.
Your other requirements could be met with a custom Android ROM. There's nothing stopping you from stripping out much of the Google integration with a custom ROM. You'll lose a lot of functionality, but it can be done.
As I said, I need to learn more about Replicant.
Re:50% more free (speech), privacy (Score:2)
"Caller ID and a whitepages will quire reliably reveal your location."
Not even close in today's world. So many CID spoofing services and VOIP routing services you'll never get a reliable location fix when you really need it unless you're law enforcement.
Cheaper (Score:2)
If the phones weren't "subsidized" on contract I bet they would be 1/2 the price they are now.
Re:Cheaper (Score:5, Insightful)
Because high end phones are PCs that also have to fit in a small case and operate on battery.
Whatever the market bears (Score:2)
As long as we have people buying phones for bling, at whatever cost they have to pay, the manufacturers and the telcos will continue to rape those poor fools.
At upwards of a thousand dollars purchase price, and a couple hundred dollar monthly fees, I would expect the damned thing to cook and do laundry for me, and make the bed up properly with hospital corners. I might not expect it to do maintenance on my motorcycle, but housekeeping? Hell yeah! On second thought, yes, I would expect it to keep my bike clean and shiny. That's as simple as housekeeping.
Re:Cheaper (Score:2)
50% bigger = more battery (Score:3)
I'm going with 50% bigger, because a modern smart-phone is as a rule no more than 50% battery by volume, and increasing the thickness 50% and filling the entire space with a battery means at least double the runtime. (In the N900 particularly, the battery is much less than half the volume, so I'd get much more than 100% runtime increase -- which goes perfectly with a Neo900 kit.)
"50% more battery efficient" is a sucker's choice, because that only gets you 50% more, not >= 100% more.
Re:50% bigger = more battery (Score:2)
Big batteries at any cost (Score:5, Insightful)
Man, fuck thin phones. I want a 1.5-inch-thick phone that'll give me a full day of streaming video or geocaching if I want. Screw those tiny 50mm x 33mm x 5mm batteries, I want my phone to be half battery by volume. In an ideal world, it would also have an accessible battery-release button, so I can slide it out and slot in another in ten seconds or less, and charge the spare (or three) in my car or on my wall. Give it a little backup battery, say 15 minutes worth, to stay alive while the big one is being swapped and I'd be totally happy.
Re:Big batteries at any cost (Score:3)
There's lots of add-on cases that provide this functionality...
Re:Big batteries at any cost (Score:2)
A lot of add-on battery cases:
1. trap heat from your hard working smart phone
2. screw with your reception
3. come with shitty batteries that lose their capacity within a week or two.
Alternatively, smartphone mfgs could thicken up their anorexic phones by 2mm or 3mm and double your battery life.
I imagine Apple could find a way to do this and charge you an extra hundred dollars for the privilege or only having to charge once a day instead of twice.
Re:Big batteries at any cost (Score:3, Funny)
You should do like me and carry around a fucking car battery everywhere I go. When people ask me why I just point out that it's hooked up to my phone, and offer them an outlet to plug in theirs too. Awesome for picking up chicks.
Not sure why cheaper would help... (Score:2)
I'm not sure why it would help to have my current cellphone be 50% cheaper.
I'd be quite happy if my next cellphone were 50% cheaper than my current one, but making my current one 50% cheaper would seem to just help everyone else who wants one...
Dan Aris
50% less destructible (Score:4, Insightful)
Its also interesting to note that people spend a a good amount of money on cases and screen protectors.
Even if an indestructible phone were larger, heavier, and more expensive out of the box than the average phone today, it may very well still be thinner, lighter and cheaper than the average phone + accessories.
50% less intrusive in normal social situations (Score:2, Informative)
And honestly, I wish it was everyone else's cell phone that had this feature, rather than mine.
You should not be taking a social phone call while eating dinner with friends. I don't want to hear how your grandmother has really bad hemorrhoids while I'm riding the bus. And I damn well don't want to be blinded in the theatre because you're sitting in front of me playing Candy Crush Saga during a horror movie.
Full disclosure - I don't have a cell phone.
open and fair (Score:5, Insightful)
50% more environmentally friendly production
50% less exploited workers
50% less conflict minerals
50% more opensource
Re:open and fair (Score:3, Informative)
You might be interested in the fairphone [fairphone.com].
More Options (Score:2)
I wish my cell phone was more durable.
I wish my cell phone got better reception.
Cell phones today aren't really phones, they're pocket computers that you can also use for calling. Its easier to be happy with what I've got if I think of it that way...
When are we going to reach the future? (Score:3)
Re:When are we going to reach the future? (Score:3)
alas, shoe phones are pulse dial only and so can't be used with today's DTFM systems
Missing Option (Score:2)
... had a hardware keyboard (Score:2)
50% more expensive (Score:5, Funny)
50% more current (Score:2)
My phone doesn't have enough RAM or storage to run anything newer than Gingerbread.
For that matter, it doesn't have enough storage to install all the apps that I want. I've had to uninstall various apps that I don't use enough (Google+, Facebook, Skype) to make room for apps that I do use (Hangouts, Authenticator, Facebook Messenger). Within a few months, I anticipate that I will have to uninstall another app just to make room for more updates. If this continues long enough, my "smartphone" will be a decided dumb phone.
I can't vote this. (Score:2)
I don't even own a mobile phone. Although, I do want a smartwatch that doesn't require a mobile phone. I still wear an old school Casio Data Bank (DB) 150 calculator watch. :) Too bad Casio stopped making it. :(
My phone is good, give me 50% more service! (Score:2)
I like my phone. Nexus 4. Does everything I need.
What I need is 50% faster and 50% cheaper service, at minimum.
It's already 50% plus of my known universe (Score:2)
100% NSAless.. (Score:3)
Just like it is: (Score:3)
Tracfone that I keep fully charged and in my pocket, but nearly always turned off.
I make 1-2 outbound calls a month on it, it's there for 911 if I need it and it's not a distraction that way.
50% of nothing (Score:3)
Is still nothing.
And I like it that way.
My ideal cell phone is a phone... (Score:3)
Old fart making a comment, here. As long as I can make calls with it, the rest is fluff and window dressing. If it were not for the fact that my employer has standardized on the iPhone, I would not touch one of them. The one bright spot being that, as I have an iPhone, I am better able to support my girlfriend's iPhone and the iPhones of everyone else in the family. Because as the tech guy of the group, no matter what I say they all bring their iPhones to me when they have a problem.
But... 50% Faster? :)
My phone makes calls, looks up numbers and addresses in my contact list, and occasionally acts as a GPS navigation aid when I am going somewhere new. That is about it. I have a few games on there for when my girlfriend's nephews and nieces are bored, and that is about it. So if my phone needs to be 50% faster to do what I need to do, then there is something wrong with the phone.
50% Cheaper?
My employer pays for it, so what do I care what it costs?
50% Smaller?
I have big hands, so a smaller phone than I have feels a bit awkward.
50% Bigger?
ok, maybe not 50% bigger, but slightly larger would be a bit more comfortable. Nothing to write home about though.
50% Lighter?
Seriously, I barely notice the weight of the thing as it is. If anything, make it 50% heavier and more rugged - waterproof and drop-proof would be more interesting than lighter (and presumably more easily broken).
Battery Efficient?
ok, I could take this one as a runner up to my choice. Recharging every 3-4 hours because I have been on the phone to a client for 2 hours is a bit of a pain, but I spent so long with a desk phone that I am still used to being tied to a desk when on the phone anyway.
50% of the Known Universe?
There are enough black holes in the phone's operating system already, without adding a few from the Universe. Although throwing data into a Black Hole would be a cool way of deleting it...
So my choice. 50% more secure. ;)
In fact, don't stop at 50%. Give me 200%, or 500%. If I am making a call, I want to know that it is secure. I am not discussing National Security or making Terrorist plans to blow up America, but I do not want anyone listening in on my girlfriend and I making small talk... especially not my wife
Similarly, I want to know that whatever I load on the phone is not going to start sending my data to someone somewhere unless I specifically want it sent. My phone, my data, my control. Is that too much to ask, NSA???
Re:50% of us have an iPhone (Score:4, Interesting)
Did a lot of research on the architecture of iPhone before I was willing to buy it. I don't see any other architecture going as far to reduce battery life, or provide a secure environment. I would like that the iPhone allowed the user more control over apps though, like being able to restrict individual app's access to certain resources.
Until then, I'm ok with *taking* that power from the phone, through jailbreaking, but I'd rather that it was built in instead. Apple should allow those of us who are capable of making our own decisions about what software we run to do so.
Re:50% of us have an iPhone (Score:2)
Apple should allow those of us who are capable of making our own decisions about what software we run to do so.
But making decisions about what you should be allowed to do with your devices is Apple's core mission!
Re:50% of us have an iPhone (Score:2)
For perspective, in 9 days of use the cpu spent 84% of this time in deep sleep, 8% at 384mhz, 1% at 594mhz and 2% at 1.242ghz. I do a lot of email, occasionally surf and watch vids, no games.
Re:50% of us have an iPhone (Score:2)
Re:Longer Lasting and Faster (Score:2)
Also Galaxy S3. It's not perfect, but by far my biggest gripe is how long the battery lasts.
If I don't use my phone, it might last a full day, but what is the point of that.
As it is I feel like I am USB tethered everywhere, which sort of defeats the purpose of mobile (in that you don't have to always have it plugged in).
The removable battery feature does help mitigate it somewhat and I do have a 2nd battery for this purpose.
However it would be nice if either battery could easily last a day or two of actual use.
Re:Longer Lasting and Faster (Score:2)
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=galaxy%20s3%20gorilla%20battery&sprefix=galaxy+s3+gori%2Caps%2C120
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Re:50% less radiation-generating (Score:2)
I think you are wrong, the girl that hit my parked car while texting experienced bruises, cuts, and broken bones. She will probably have problems with her knee for the rest of her life. I would consider this a health problem directly caused by cell phone use since had she not been texting she would have seen the giant buick she plowed into. It has happened enough times to other people that we now have a law forbidding the use of cell phones while driving.
"Now out on DVD..." (Score:2)
Re:I'm screwed.... (Score:2)
Mine are similar, but in a different order:
1: Unlocked bootloader. I can fix a lot with a phone, but without an unlocked bootloader, why bother.
2: A decent radio. Motorola devices are outstanding in this regard (IMHO). At least Motorola is finally seeing the light, offering the Moto X with an unlocked bootloader in some configurations.
3: A MicroSD card slot accessible without having to pop a cover off. This helps a lot when doing nandroid backups.
4: A built in lightweight Linux distro. Motorola had this with the Atrix, Atrix 2, and Droid Bionic, but killed it. This comes into handy for a Citrix receiver, where one can work on a remote VM but no data is stored locally.
Re:I'm screwed.... (Score:2)
You do know why there's a cover, right? You know how dirt or water could easily screw with the operation of those tiny contact points, right?
Re:New Generation has great Battery life (Score:2)
Having said that, I'm still glad my new phone goes 2 days and still has > 20%. I just want my week-long charge back.
Re:New Generation has great Battery life (Score:2)
Re:2013 and still missing calls (Score:2)
Sounds like a violation of the implied warranties in your contract and you need to be in a courtroom regarding it.