Mobile phones
- Thread starter Drago
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Think that should read 'addictive as, well, Alica Keys'
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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...you called....
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Is this going to be a weekly or monthly thread?
classic33
Leg End Member
Handheld GPS will be available for a few years yet.
classic33
Leg End Member
£70 second-hand.Bloody hell
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
They start pretty early.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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I think MP3 players have had it, smartphones can do what they do pretty easily. Sat Nav is interesting. Cyclists are still keen to use a separate GPS device rather than the phone. If battery life and robustness could be sorted then Garmin GPS has had it too. Cameras....in reality gone already except the higher end equipment. I haven't seen anyone use a camera less than several hundred quid for ages. Presumably they aren't made any more. My smartphone comes with high resolution double leica lens. Lower end of camera market is dead already
So as a smartphone user I've no problem with this...it let's me carry one device instead of three. But if you want to stick with a brickphone then lower end devices have all but had it
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Drago
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My brick phone is smaller than any smartphone.
Fortunately, I don't have the daily need to carry a camera, music player, navigation device etc in my pocket, so that aspect isn't an issue.
Fortunately, I don't have the daily need to carry a camera, music player, navigation device etc in my pocket, so that aspect isn't an issue.
classic33
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gbb
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There's duplication in most if not all technology nowadays...and has been for a while.
I have a DVD player/ recorder in my living room, cost maybe £500...hardly ever used it, the advent of most tv packages, catch up, on demand and +1 channels make them almost redundant.
Then there's duplication in almost everything tv related, it's a job to know which is the cheapest way to do it.
I have a DVD player/ recorder in my living room, cost maybe £500...hardly ever used it, the advent of most tv packages, catch up, on demand and +1 channels make them almost redundant.
Then there's duplication in almost everything tv related, it's a job to know which is the cheapest way to do it.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
If you're going to have old school, there's really only one to have:
I remember when they first came out and my mate got one. We couldn't believe how small it was.
I remember when they first came out and my mate got one. We couldn't believe how small it was.
classic33
Leg End Member
Too small.
But that's not the stated point of the thread. It's asking about how long separate devices will exist to do the things smartphones also do. For me I already use mine for radio and downloaded music, since my dedicated mp3 player got stolen. The sound quality through tiddly headphones is the same, so super duper reproduction isn't needed. It's my only gps at present, although I may consider getting a garmin for cycling purposes. My car has gps built in. The immediacy of phone snapped pictures, so I can amaze the world with a picture of a bench mark as soon as I've snapped it is, generally speaking, something an actual camera can't do, although wifi enabled dSLR cameras do exist. I think picture quality has been confused with the number of megapixels though, duping the public to an extant. I think all those gadgets will remain as individual devices for some time, with the exception of the mp3 player, especially as downloaded music itself us drifting off in to history already.
