Whatever happened to pocket-sized phones?

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mobiles are not big, they are tiny.

But you have to stop thinking of your mobile as a phone...its not. Its a hugely powerful personal computer, hi res digital camera, personal organiser, alarm clock, watch, digital sound recorder, sat nav, translator, web browser, modem, gps system, email handler, text device, digital video camera, 20 gb storage device, digital radio, games console, touch screen, torch, finger print reader and calculator.

When you think of them as all these things, you realise just how tiny they are.

Oh and its also a telephone

Nope, mine is definitely a phone!

 

[slowmotion]

Doro Easyphone 612. I like this sentence from a review...."For some people, a phone is simply a tool for keeping in touch, and if they have reduced vision, poor mobility or other impairments which make it difficult for them to handle the whizz-bang, they need to look elsewhere." .
It's got big buttons and big text and I love it because it spends most of its life turned off in a rarely visited drawer at home and it rarely bothers me. What more could you wish for ?
I recently had to learn how to introduce capitals and punctuation to my pitiful texts. I had to take a few days off work to recover from the effort.

 

[classic33]

Yes I do.... Let me say this slowly for you

It... Is.... A... PHONE!!

Says the person who wondered about glass numbers, and then went looking for ones he didn't have.

 

[classic33]

Mobiles are not big, they are tiny.

But you have to stop thinking of your mobile as a phone...its not. Its a hugely powerful personal computer, hi res digital camera, personal organiser, alarm clock, watch, digital sound recorder, sat nav, translator, web browser, modem, gps system, email handler, text device, digital video camera, 20 gb storage device, digital radio, games console, touch screen, torch, finger print reader and calculator.

When you think of them as all these things, you realise just how tiny they are.

Oh and its also a telephone

Why do you need to "fingerprint" people.
And legally its not a finger print reader.

 

[classic33]

What model it is is not of the upmost and most pressing importance in my life.

I know this might be impossible for some to comprehend, but I hope you learn with time (there might even be an app to help you!).

Would such an app work on an Ericsson R250 though

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I have a Nokia C2, which is small, pocket-sized, light, and definitely not 'smart'. I'm no Luddite, though (I'm a software engineer), but I just couldn't care less about phones in general.

 

[jonny jeez]

Why do you need to "fingerprint" people.
And legally its not a finger print reader.

It's just an easy way to unlock the device, it's not actually a universal identification thingy...unless you are James bond, or a member of csi which means that your phone is an iris identifier, finger print analyser and is able to receive up to date, working blueprints of every building in the world, in 3dimensions, at the touch of a button.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

PAYG Samsung B2700 bombproof lump as my phone that is always with me phone.

Smartphone on the dying embers of a contract that comes with me if I've got carrying space or need sat nav.

 

[Alex H]

I predict that the next generation of males will be using handbags, because their phones won't fit anywhere else.

Here you go

 

[Levo-Lon]

I had a nokia in 86..it was huge..tho i did love my tiny erikson ..about 3 yrs later..

thing i remember most is the battery lasted a week even if you made a lot of phone calls ..
can anyone remember talking lol

 

[robjh]

I have a coal powered Nokia.

In the Pub last night, I was the only one still doing the old texting method of tapping your thumb on the keys at high speed!

I think they call it 'grandad texting' these days

 

[ufkacbln]

and short arms?
Or if you're like my wife just shove it in the handbag then miss every call while rummaging around in it for the phone.

Hence the smart watch which allows you to make calls, texts etc while the phone remains in the bag

 

[Dan B]

In the meantime, I love my pocket computer, and even sometimes make calls on it.

This. Although for "sometimes" read "about once a week if that". If all it did was make calls I probably wouldn't even bother owning one.

 

[Drago]

Us dumb phone users get a signal anywhere, and charge our phones once every 3 or 4 weeks. That's what I need, when I need it. I only switch it in when I'm on call for SAR.

Smartphones are themselves smart, but may make people behave like they're dumb, walking along in public, face firmly downwards, hand extended forward, now looking where they're going. Not for me, thanks.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just had to look online to see what phone I have because it neither goes online itself nor seems to have any model number on or in it. Anyhow it's a Nokia 1100. It's light, runs for over a week without recharging and hasn't broken yet.