Mobile phones

[Racing roadkill]

As you all know, I don't do smart phones. I think they're horrible things, as addictive as crack cocaine and almost as expensive. I hate the fact that walk outside on any given day and 1/3 to 1/4 of people will be walking around staring at a smart phone (and in London then complaining when it gets nicked out of their hand).

So I don't have one, and I'm quite happy thank you very much..

But a thought occurs.

Mobile phones are now music players, sat navs, GPS devices (although not terribly good yet), as well as phones. As a consequence sales of dedicated MP3 playrs, sat navs, etc, are plummeting.

So my questions are thus - will there come a day when these things will become impossible to buy as stand alone items, or else so hideously expensive that only the dedicated hobbyist or someone needing it for work would buy one? At that point I guess I would have to give in and buy one if I wanted those things - how far in the future do you think that would be?

My 'phone' rarely gets used as a phone. It's pretty much my computer, sat nav, and camera / all sorts of other digital stuff.
I could live without it, but so much of my job(s) require me to have some sort of access to digital worldy rubbish, that it is tricky to function properly without it. I'm going to kick the majority of what I 'need' it for into touch next year, as long as I don't tackle above the neck, or bash it in the scrum, I should be okay.

 

[classic33]

I hope not, I need a combined hairdryer and electric drill like I need a hole in the head.

You've one or two already!

 

[Lonestar]

PAH! Amateur!

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Is that an S7?

Seriously I told a workmate today I had an S3 and the shock all round was astounding...while another told me how wonderful Iphones were and that I should get one.

 

[Vantage]

Is that an S7?

Seriously I told a workmate today I had an S3 and the shock all round was astounding...while another told me how wonderful Iphones were and that I should get one.

A5.
The missus and I looked at the S7 in store as both phones were going for the same price. We decided there that the A5 would be better because it was newer. We shoulda gone home an compared online. The S7 has a better camera. Oh well.
I had an iPhone 4S once. My dad passed it onto me. I hated it. An android phone connects to my bog standard PC without issue and files can be copied or transferred easily. Not with a forkin iPhone. Noooooooooo. You have to use apples stupid friggin iTunes and other crap to get it to work and there's (was at least) the issue of iPhones being registered to their original owners. Gah!
Horrible vile wretched things.

 

[classic33]

A5.
The missus and I looked at the S7 in store as both phones were going for the same price. We decided there that the A5 would be better because it was newer. We shoulda gone home an compared online. The S7 has a better camera. Oh well.
I had an iPhone 4S once. My dad passed it onto me. I hated it. An android phone connects to my bog standard PC without issue and files can be copied or transferred easily. Not with a forkin iPhone. Noooooooooo. You have to use apples stupid friggin iTunes and other crap to get it to work and there's (was at least) the issue of iPhones being registered to their original owners. Gah!
Horrible vile wretched things.

Not a fan of iPhones then?

 

[swee'pea99]

Not a fan of iPhones then?

Talk about jumping to conclusions...

 

[Lonestar]

Is that an S7?

Seriously I told a workmate today I had an S3 and the shock all round was astounding...while another told me how wonderful Iphones were and that I should get one.

Twas a joke for the times the S7 caught fire.I will go and get me coat.

 

[MontyVeda]

As you all know, I don't do smart phones. I think they're horrible things, as addictive as crack cocaine and almost as expensive. I hate the fact that walk outside on any given day and 1/3 to 1/4 of people will be walking around staring at a smart phone ...

I don't do smart phones either, but i do have one. It seldom leaves the house, never gets used for internet browsing, social media, navigation or taking photographs, but it does make a handy remote control for various media players on my desktop PC. Occasionally I'll even use it as a phone.

 

[John the Monkey]

Twas a joke for the times the S7 caught fire.I will go and get me coat.

Note 7, i think.

 

[Lonestar]

Note 7, i think.

Doh.,you are correct.

 

[Tanis8472]

I bought an iPod with a Christmas bonus quite a few years ago. Bloody awful thing to try and put media on. ITunes is one of the most hateful pieces of software ever written. It's now used an a media player in the car.
Hate it.

 

[classic33]

Note 7, i think.

Galaxy S7 fire

 

[Vantage]

Galaxy S7 fire

Hot stuff.

 

[Drago]

IPhone 7 too.

So they cost a bomb, are psychologically addictive, and they burst into flame the moment you turn your back. They're not really selling themselves to me.

 

[John the Monkey]

Galaxy S7 fire

Yes, although it was the Note 7 that acquired public notoriety for it, m'lud.