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tvqueen1905
24-12-2012
smart phone
Martin Phillp
24-12-2012
I bought my first smartphone six months ago, would never go back to a normal phone.
david16
13-06-2013
Originally Posted by Jimmy Connors:
“I use a Nokia phone. I don't think it is a smart phone, but it does have the internet. All the buttons are worn out now.

Orange have given me a really fancy phone (upgrade or something) I haven't even taken it out of the box.

As you can tell, I am not really into phones very much.”

My nokia asha 300 is technically classed as a smartphone as it is can do a number of the things that an android can. I got Nokia internet radio installed on mine though I hsve to rely on "connecting to your muze, connecting to your muze, connecting to your muze, connecting to your muze" to receive the full range of ilr and BBC stations.
scrilla
14-06-2013
I've a Samsung Tocco Lite as my day-to-day phone, which I find a frustrating and hateful thing. It's not a smartphone, of course but it's touchscreen and has a handy option of a qwerty keyboard when you turn the phone around in your hand ... except it rarely seems to work when you most need it. Also when you have to make one of those calls where you are given a menu by a recorded voice (how I hate those anyway!) and you have to press a button, the backlight has always gone off, meaning the onscreen keyboard has vanished and I seem to be hopeless at getting it back again.

My back-up is my old Sony Ericsson T610 which must be about eleven years old. It may be feeble compared to modern stuff but it does what it's supposed to, still, apart from being lazy to scroll at times.

I quite like the idea of having a smartphone, whilst simultaneously hating the idea. I do like being offline when I'm out and about and find texting from the street bothersome. I think it would be handy for the following, though, especially 1 & 2.

1. Being able to bid on an eBay auction when I'm not at my laptop.

2. Checking the price of things online, when out and about in the high street, bargain-hunting.

3. Using maps very occasionally if I have difficulty finding an address I'm driving to. I don't do 'sat-nav' either.

4. Pointing it at the night sky and finding out what all the stars are would be nice, especially for my girlfriend, who tends to reach for the binoculars far more that I. Apparently there is an app that will enable this.

I'd only need this sort of thing occasionally so it's really hard to justify, especially when £10 thrown at my current contract-less phone will last a couple of months.

Regarding people with smartphones, they seem to be updating Facebook or Twitter accounts with comments about where they are and who they are with, or photographing meals sitting in front of them in a restaurant! I find this sort of activity unrewarding and fairly pointless/ banal and of course, you can do that sort of thing when you get home and that way the burglars don't know when it's good to pay your house a visit.

My daughter has an iPhone and every few minutes it makes a funny noise and she's checking it, no matter where we are, for some no doubt essential communication from her vast array of buddies. It's pointless saying anything because she doesn't remember a time when life was more enjoyable and free from this sort of purposeless and constant intrusion.
David (2)
15-06-2013
I have a normal push button mobile and a smart phone.

I was intending to replace the older one with the smart phone, but as it turns out the smart phone is hardly useable and expensive to use outside wifi. So I still use my old style phone as my point of mobile contact. Nobody now has my smart phone number - no point when you miss 70% of incoming calls on it due to the unresponsive screen.

I now think that when my initial contract period is up on the smart phone, I will replace It with a wifi only iPad mini, just for the portable internet.

When my old push button mobile bites the dust I will replace it with another, cheap push button phone.
Missli
15-06-2013
I've not looked back since having my first smartphone which wasn't very, a Nokia express music 5800, had a good camera, and sound quality was great, but was useless for browsing, and kept freezing.

My 2nd which I loved at the time was a Nokia N8, for which the sound, and camera were outstanding, and survived multiple knocks, even when the end dropped off and I super-glued it together it worked fine. Nokia hardware is 2nd to none, I only managed to accidentally kill it recently when it got a bit damp in my bag by a water bottle not being screwed on tight enough.

My latest which I'm still waiting to receive is a Samsung Galaxy S4 which will be my first android phone. As it's got a 5 inch screen will be used as a phone, plus instead of a tablet I was after, so it is a bit of a hybrid in my eyes. I doubt it will beat Nokias hardware, and sound, but I have my ipod with a great docking station, plus an excellent set of speakers I could attach it to for that.

Looking forward to browsing on the go, and lots of free apps, and games.
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