Smartphone hard, dudes, like it’s the end of the world! Welcome back. Just think, it’s been a week already since glum users began reluctantly re-occupying seats that had been blissfully empty during most of Christmas and New Year. No doubt your Monday was spent dealing with forgotten-password requests, Tuesday helping the same users who had already forgotten the replacement password …
That's what using cheapy Chinese white-label phones with SAR ratings higher than sticking your head in a microwave does to you. I hope everyone realises that they should stick with Apple, the radio signal can't even get through your hands if you hold it wrong.
"(Apart from the last one which was a bit too clever for its own good.)"
OT I know, but I liked the plot twist in which we don't know whether 19th century Sherlock is dreaming 21st century or vice versa, or whether they are dreaming part of one another's lives.
sandraandwoo.com played a similar game with its readers leading up to Christmas, [spoiler alert] with a similar plot twist in which while the main character thinks she has been dreaming, her pet raccoon is wearing an artefact from the "dream".
But I suspect I am far from alone in having a 'burner' phone for said activites? In my case my very much beloved Razr i, albeit with my current sim. My mate for years used a flip Nokia which got retirted last summer....
Still, I demand to know what this is, the Doogee X5 Pro is too big for this function really. Someone don their dearstalker please.
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A basic smartphone for occasional use, for those rare times when my clamshell* portable telephonic apparatus isn't enough, e.g. extremely approximate map location** and email without having to trust someone else's cybercaff. Possibly wishful thinking for such a budget item but if it can also do tethering for the fondleslab then we have a winner.
* no 'butt-dialling', extremely hard to break and a battery life of just under a month standby, about a week under frequent use (better than their stated spec too). Less is more.
** even in the UK, online map locations are crap, I dare you to try relying on these abroad, it doesn't matter how good the GPS is when the map shows the destination on wrong road in the wrong town and it takes 6 months to get corrections done...
I wish I still had a working Razr I, rather than one that was dropped from 17meters onto concrete!
I'm assuming it's an Acer Z220 that was reviewed. It got slated for the screen, but otherwise it would be an upgrade from the Huweai U8180 I'm currently using , still running fro-yo!
I'd be great to just leave one's house with a suitable phone... a cheap one for drunk nights out, a big rugged one for weekend camping trips, a fancier phone for that long rail commute.
However, being tied to a physical SIM is an issue. Yeah, I can shrug off the loss of a £20 phone on a night out, but not having my SIM for a couple of days will still be inconvenient.
Dabooka, I agree. All I want is to make an occasional phone call or maybe use the calculator function to figure a bar tip after having had too many to figure it mentally.
Those of us who do a lot of physical work can't stick a small tablet in our pockets and expect it to come out in one piece at the end of the day. In our end of the woods, nobody gives a crap about what electronic kit anyone lugs around. Chainsaw, maybe. But, not a phone.
usually just as you turn on to the motorway and 100 miles from the next service station, thereby driving you insane
Or as my iPod did once, crash just I merge onto the M40 when setting off for Scotland. Of course I keep it in the central console. Tucked nicely out of the way right at the front actually underneath the heater controls. I can just about reach it if I duck down and stretch out my arm...
£65? Just reminded my father that £20 on the even more disposable (but higher spec than [insert name here]) [insert other name] he was considering was a bit pointless without an internet connection or PC.
Could have bought 2 of them with some credit for double the party fun. Next year i fully expect usable phones will be given away with cereal.
Next year? There was one embedded in an advert in Entertainment Weekly 4 years ago.
http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/
I'm old enough to have been impressed by the blinkenlight on Pink Floyd's Pulse so a throw-away smart phone is still astonishing 4 years on.
@ Seajay#; The Enterteinment Weekly thing doesn't really count as that was quite obviously a publicity stunt they'd have taken a loss on. The article states they only produced 1000 of those "special" magazines.
Pretty sure it more than paid for itself with the intended result of getting them in the news though.
[insert generic greeting here] Dabbsy! Please [insert URL of mystery manufacturer's website here] so that I can look into purchasing [insert name of mystery product here] by [insert name of mystery manufacturer here]
[insert mystery appreciative comment here]
[insert mystery commentard name here]
apparently the postman tried to deliver a Large Hadron Collider while he was out.
You'll find it amongst the roses in the neighbour's back garden, where the postie chucked it when no-one answered the door four seconds after knocking.
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