Let the confusion begin

[SeaCat]

Okay my wife and I picked up our new phones today. (LG Xenon) We brought them home, charged them and are now plugging in our contact's and learning how to use these phones.

Let me tell you this. Using a phone with touch screens is not easy if you haven't used them before.

Cat

 

[Liar]

I had one for about a year. I never got used to it. It just felt wrong to not have buttons to press. Like boobs with no nipples.

 

[john-the-author]

Like boobs with no nipples.

What a ghastly image!

 

[Katyusha]

I had one for about a year. I never got used to it. It just felt wrong to not have buttons to press. Like boobs with no nipples.

I like my friend's iPhone, but I don't think I could deal with having one myself. I also like the feel of actual buttons.

 

[DesertPirate]

I like the feel of actual nipples

 

[TE999]

I like the feel of actual nipples

This has to be a record...five posts from the subject of cell phones to sex.

 

[DesertPirate]

This has to be a record...five posts from the subject of cell phones to sex.

You expected different around here?

 

[TE999]

You expected different around here?

Not really...just marveling at the rapid change.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I have a basic, cheap, easy to use but seldom used Cell. Were it not for 2 totalled vehicles where reporting the accident had been convenient, I'd not have one at all. It's like people know they can reach you anywhere.

Do I need a leash up my ass?

*shakes head*

Q_C

 

[SeaCat]

I have a basic, cheap, easy to use but seldom used Cell. Were it not for 2 totalled vehicles where reporting the accident had been convenient, I'd not have one at all. It's like people know they can reach you anywhere.

Do I need a leash up my ass?

*shakes head*

Q_C

Because of work and family I need the tether. Since I do need the Cell I have decided to make it more convenient, to make it work for me.

That being said there are times when I don't answer my phone and I have let people know this. I do not answer the phone when I'm on the bike or driving.

Cat

 

[SimonBrooke]

I have a basic, cheap, easy to use but seldom used Cell. Were it not for 2 totalled vehicles where reporting the accident had been convenient, I'd not have one at all. It's like people know they can reach you anywhere.

Do I need a leash up my ass?

You can switch them off, you know.

You can even switch off the phone functions while leaving the web browsing and route finding and track logging and metal detecting and movie making and note taking and star mapping functions switched on. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes and weighs 160 grammes, and it does things which just were not possible at all twenty years ago, as well as other things which were possible with a ten million pound research grant and a room full of computers.

I wouldn't leave home without mine.

 

[Handley_Page]

There's an advert on our TVs at present sweetly telling a would-be user of an iPhone that he could send an invoice ('there's an Ap for that'), do all sorts of gucci things and then track the parcel has arrived ('there's an Ap for that').

Quite why one would need these things on even a telephone, let alone a mobile one, is kinds beyond me.

I suspect these this are an answer looking for a question. . . .

 

[Trinique_Fire]

I prefer basic cell phones. A phone should be a phone.

 

[raphy]

This has to be a record...five posts from the subject of cell phones to sex.

It was really just two posts, wasn't it?

 

[SimonBrooke]

There's an advert on our TVs at present sweetly telling a would-be user of an iPhone that he could send an invoice ('there's an Ap for that'), do all sorts of gucci things and then track the parcel has arrived ('there's an Ap for that').

Quite why one would need these things on even a telephone, let alone a mobile one, is kinds beyond me.

I suspect these this are an answer looking for a question. . . .

I prefer basic cell phones. A phone should be a phone.

You see, I'm a cyclist.

When I'm out I want to track where I've been - what hills I've climbed, how steep and high they were, what my speed has been over them, how far I've come, how far I have yet to ride. If I'm getting tired I may want to replan my route to avoid hills. If I have a breakdown I can't fix on the road, I may want to call a taxi from the nearest taxi firm, and I may want to check the timetable at the nearest railway station. If I see something interesting I may want to take a photograph of it, or even a movie; I may want to make a note of it on my track log. If I don't know what it is, I may want to look it up on Wikipedia. At the end of the day, I may want to upload my track to Google Maps.

How many devices do I need to do that? Exactly one. It weighs 160 grammes. It's not the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but it is most assuredly the Hitch Hiker's Guide to Planet Earth.

Oh, yes, it also makes phone calls.

This is magical technology. Do not - do NOT - leave home without it.

 

[SeaCat]

Okay so we broke the cord today. We no longer have a house phone. Family and friends have been informed, as has work.

The wall where we had the phone hung looks oddly bare.

Cat