So Samsung make phones? Well I never.
It's.....so......pretty......
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Drago
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My dumb phone is a Samsung. Apple missed out on my business by not catering to the "I just want a phone and don't want to walk about in public like a zombie" market. Next time there's a recession they'll regret not having my £20.
Drago
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Too much information!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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Miaow
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Actually, with the amount of gushing going on here, about what is basically an over-priced phone, it is more akin to the Second Coming.
But by the 7th or 8th time during the night I get into my stride.
Drago
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In a shop t'other day and the woman at the till asked for my email address. I whipped out my battered old Samsung tough phone and said, "do I look like a guy who has an email address"? She stared at me dumbfounded, and quietly took my money.
Had I been an iPhone owner I'd have had to simply refuse, which would have felt so rude.
Had I been an iPhone owner I'd have had to simply refuse, which would have felt so rude.
Good to see the tough phone predictive text is working.
Drago
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That's the predictive text on this Crapple tablet being confused by me having no feeling in two fingers or my right hand.
Wobblers
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Though to be fair to Samsung, they were first to integrate a fire lighter function into a phone...
nickyboy
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My Huawei is so unpopular even the guys who stole it off me threw it away
Wobblers
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Denied.
He mentioned its secondary purpose as an additional light source for the facial recognition. I pointed out Samsung's innovation of being first to market with the auto firelighting feature. I don't think that they received enough credit for that outstanding achievement, do you?
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In all seriousness how on Earth are we in a situation where a phone costs in excess of £1000 (around £1100 for the bigger memory version).
I know they play music, take pictures, run 'videos' etc but at it's heart it is still a phone.
I've had a 'mobile' since the mid-90's - initially as in-car installs and then the proverbial Yuppie brick. Over time these morphed into small units that you could talk and text on and that became relatively cheap and then there was an explosion of latest, greatest features and subsequent huge rises in pricing.
I have a friend who has just ordered a 'Ten' and he is gushing about it. He has what I think is a Seven at the moment but... he doesn't always take it with him during his various outdoor activities in case it gets damaged. Instead he takes his second phone which is a cheapie with a sim only contract. Bonkers situation in my opinion.
Slick marketing in a world gone mad.
Footnote: I've a Nokia Lumia something--or-other, runs Windows, cost £45, sim only @ £9 pm - does the job and I don't cry when I drop it etc.
Sorry for sounding grumpy today but it is yet another day of rain here in The Lakes.
I know they play music, take pictures, run 'videos' etc but at it's heart it is still a phone.
I've had a 'mobile' since the mid-90's - initially as in-car installs and then the proverbial Yuppie brick. Over time these morphed into small units that you could talk and text on and that became relatively cheap and then there was an explosion of latest, greatest features and subsequent huge rises in pricing.
I have a friend who has just ordered a 'Ten' and he is gushing about it. He has what I think is a Seven at the moment but... he doesn't always take it with him during his various outdoor activities in case it gets damaged. Instead he takes his second phone which is a cheapie with a sim only contract. Bonkers situation in my opinion.
Slick marketing in a world gone mad.
Footnote: I've a Nokia Lumia something--or-other, runs Windows, cost £45, sim only @ £9 pm - does the job and I don't cry when I drop it etc.
Sorry for sounding grumpy today but it is yet another day of rain here in The Lakes.
To you maybe. To me it's a phone, music player, video player, camera, satnav, email, internet, shop etc etc. I find it good value for all those things. If you only see it as one tiny element of the whole package then it has a different value to you.
Just because it evolved form just a phone, doesn't make it just a phone any more than a computer is not just a calculator and therefor should only cost £5.
