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I reluctantly got a hybrid replacement recently, with a touchscreen and normal buttons after my previous trusty mobile telephone met it's maker by falling out of my pocket, onto a rock, then into the water while I was out fishing.
In my opinion the whole gadgetry obsession is putting us one step closer to living suspended in sacs of fluid with a giant computer feeding off our bioelectric output. Another brick in the wall as Roger Waters might say.
I'm all for a return to carrier pigeons, smoke signals and bits of parchment in bottles hurled hopefully into the sea.
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BACON actually.
Or I drop the damned thing on the floor and smash the screen. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I see them, phone mounted on their hips in a quick-access holster - looking sooooo important.
I further see them constantly grabbing the phone and looking at it. Twiddling. Then returning it to its dock.
I know there thougths:
"I'm important and need to be in touch with everyone I know because they need me" (or is it the other way around?)
"I've no interpersonal skills - at least I can play games"
"Please - I'm lonely - someone text me and validate my existence"
A lifestyle dependent upon battery life and roaming charges.
How different Brave New World would have been - Huxley would have used the cell phones instead of Soma . No one, of course, would have believed him at the time - just too ridiculous to believe. Actually, it still is.
Luddites United !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Generally, only google - the small screen makes significant surfing wait for later.
And I can't be Arrr-Jim-Me-Ladded with Farrrrcebook on phone or PC.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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I tend to use an App for specific stuff if I can find a decent one.
For example football scores / news, cricket scores, Facebook / Twitter, Wikipedia, ebay, Dilbert,
I use apps for all of those rather than a browser. If there were apps available for other things then I would probably use those too.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I don't have a smart phone, I don't need one and I don't intend to change that any time soon. Ok, I know I'm being boring, but up to now nobody really could tell me what I need a new expensive toy for and so I manage quite well without. Let others waste their time and money scrambling after one hype after another.
"Dark the dark side is. Very dark..." - Yoda
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"Shut up, Yoda, and just make yourself another toast." - Obi Wan Kenobi
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I have a cell phone (due to my wife's insistence).
However, upon initiation,
- I had our account had texting disabled.
- I had our account had internet access disabled.
- I keep my phone off, unless I'm expecting a call or occasionally make one
It's only a damn telephone - why have so many made it a way of life ? ? ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Or to put it another way;
It's only a damn telephone - why are you so scared of it?
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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If it's just a phone, then why does it make people run around like zombies and make them walk against lamp posts, fall into water fountains and occasionally lets them end up under a car?
"Dark the dark side is. Very dark..." - Yoda
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"Shut up, Yoda, and just make yourself another toast." - Obi Wan Kenobi
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Surely those are all good things.
Provide entertainment to the rest and removes the stupid.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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ChrisElston wrote: why are you so scared of it?
To return you to a proper perspective: I own the phone - and not the other way around.
Truly a vanishing minority!
You, of course, are not scared. But perhaps, if you knew the next tricks it would teach you to do at its bidding, you would be!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Phones that have very little to do with phone calls are very much appreciated.
Phones are the very invention ever, they sit on your desk or in your house and yell at you until you answer them.
Text messages give a polite little "Message for you, when you're ready, sorry to disturb" and then keep quite until you want to deal with them.
E-mail even better on a phone, doesn't even bother you at all, just wait until you have some time to see if there are any there.
There are of course lots of features I don't use, but I don't get my service provider to turn them off in case I accidentally use them.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It's only a damn telephone
Hold on right there. It's not a telephone at all. Sure, you can make phone calls with it if you really wish, but smart phones are realy small computers that are mostly used for things like listening to music, reading e-mail or news, playing games or browsing the internet. And texting.
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So then why isn't it called the SmartNotATelephone?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That doesn't roll off the tongue like "smart phone" does!
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True -
I'm awaiting the massive purchase-surge when Apple comes out with their "iSMART" Device. Me think much buying.
The logo-shirts, proudly displaying "iSMART" logo will sell billions!
Someone call my copyright attorney, quick!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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That's your problem. You see a smart phone as "only a damn telephone". Maybe you've never used a smart phone before. 
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I got this thing called a computer - does much the same stuff - but - get this: It has a really big screen !
Also, the keyboard kinda fits my fingers.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I got this thing called a computer
Yeah but you can't stick the bloody thing in your pocket can you?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Yeah but you can't stick the bloody thing in your pocket can you?
Neither can I stick my fridge in my pocket. Nor my microwave oven. Ditto for the porcelain convenience.
That, my friend, is part of the beauty of it!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: W∴ Balboos wrote: I got this thing called a computer
Yeah but you can't stick the bloody thing in your pocket can you?
No picture available since I'm at work and my shared hosting is currently down under a DDoS attack, but my netbook does fit in my pocket. So there! 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I got one with the biggest screen I could find, HTC something or other. It makes an excellent reader, the screen is JUST large enough to be able to read from, I can carry a number of books on trips AND it fits in a pocket.
Occasionally I do make a phone call and I think I turned on the data once (by mistake) and I will probably upgrade to a W7 phone this year, my son want the reader and the library.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hook up my smartphone to my laptop through bluetooth and access the internet on my laptop. Just making it a little more smarter with good display. And this way, I didn't bother getting a dedicated internet connection for my laptop 
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Just that something can be done, doesn't mean it should be done. Respect developers and their efforts!
Jk
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I am currently accepting all smartphone donations here. 
Programmer's C# { Do it Better;}
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Me too! 
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover 
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