Mobile phones

[rich p]

I used to want a phone that was smaller than the last incarnation until they got so small that my fingers wre too fat.
Now I want bigger and bigger so I can read the god damned thing.
I feel naked without my phone... I farking love it.
I feel naked without a packet of crisps too, before anyone else mentions it.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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.

Yeah it's not the original point but really it's an 'all I ever see are people staring at their phones' or proudly declaring they haven't got a smartphone in the same way those 'I haven't got a telly' wankėrs bleat on.

 

[rich p]

Yeah it's not the original point but really it's an 'all I ever see are people staring at their phones' or proudly declaring they haven't got a smartphone in the same way those 'I haven't got a telly' wankėrs bleat on.

Don't get me started on the ones who don't drink either....

 

[Drago]

I don't drink!

Yeah it's not the original point but really it's an 'all I ever see are people staring at their phones' or proudly declaring they haven't got a smartphone in the same way those 'I haven't got a telly' wankėrs bleat on.

You might want to read post #51. Covered that long before anyone could nip in and accuse me of dumb phone smugness. I'm not Amish on the matter - they just ain't for me.

 

[classic33]

Don't get me started on the ones who don't drink either....

Those have stopped drinking can be worse.

 

[rich p]

I don't drink!

Good Lord!

 

[Drago]

I stopped drinking! But I did it for medical rather than righteous reasons.

 

[Tim Hall]

'I haven't got a telly' wankėrs bleat on.

Years ago I inhabited a part of the interwebs where such people were referred to, often by themselves, as SNTVBs, or Smug Non Television Viewing Bastards.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Don't get me started on the ones who don't drink either....

Stone them

 

[rich p]

Stone them

Steady on, old chap, even @Drago ?

 

[Drago]

It wasn't though choice. So many painkillers for various knackered bits it was easiest just to five up.

 

[Piemaster]

I've got an iPod, modded with 128Gb flash memory - lots of music. Rarely use the phone for music as I always seem to want to listen to something that isn't on it.

 

[Dan B]

http://calnewport.com/blog/2016/12/18/on-digital-minimalism/ was pointed to this on Twitter, food for thought

(Sorry, would explain at greater length but I'm typing on a phone and it's slow and tedious)

 

[classic33]

It wasn't though choice. So many painkillers for various knackered bits it was easiest just to five up.

Five-A-Day might just be bad for you.

 

[raleighnut]

Stone them

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