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Thread ID: 66567 2006-02-27 08:43:00 Do you have a mobile phone? stu161204 (123) PC World Chat
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434416 2006-02-27 08:43:00 Do you have a mobile phone?? If you do have one, do you txt/pix or just uses it as a normal phone??? stu161204 (123)
434417 2006-02-27 08:52:00 Sony Ericsson K700. Primarily used for text messaging and email (a screen resolution of 220 x 176 kind of limits usability though). Some data usage, but even Opera doesn't cut down the size of pages enough to make it economical. :p maccrazy (6741)
434418 2006-02-27 08:55:00 Bloody phones. You know what I want from a cellphone?
1] make and recieve calls.
2] let me play my own MP3 ringtones so I can annoy my co-workers.

I don't want a camera. I don't want pixt. I don't want a bunch of cruddy games that weren't fun the first time round when I played them on coin-op machines in amusement arcades when I was supposed to be going to lectures (hey, it was the 80s and the Govt paid me to go to university, not the other way round). I don't want a spreadsheet, or an organiser or a mini-word processor. I don't want pre-emptive txt language which thinks it knows better than me what I want to say.

I do want buttons that repsond when I want them to. I do want decent battery life. I do want it to be small, light and durable.

But really, what I really really want are those MP3 ringtones so I can annoy people by having the theme from The A Team play when I get a call.

So what do I get when the phone gets upgraded? A low (battery) life chunky POS with clunky buttons, a lousy interface and .... AND ... the one damn feature I wanted disabled because a certain mobile provider wants me to spend dollars downloading ringtones from the web.

BAH HUMBUG.
Biggles (121)
434419 2006-02-27 08:59:00 Yes. Mainly text - some voice. Scouse (83)
434420 2006-02-27 09:06:00 No I don't. Unless you count the corpse of a cellphone out in the shed that a niece gave to me 3-4-5 yrs ago. I agree with bruce buckman. Man I don't even like electric windows in cars. mark c (247)
434421 2006-02-27 09:16:00 Is the Pope german?

Use it extensively for Work/Personal calls and Work/Personal SMS, and the occasional PXT.
ninja (1671)
434422 2006-02-27 09:27:00 yup, normally text and calling. I have a pxt fone but its so pathetic.

Right now we're in the lame transitional stage. Maybe when phones have 3MP cameras and 30gb's of internal storage will i consider them worth the money.
imarubberducky (7230)
434423 2006-02-27 09:30:00 Current phone is a spare I borrowed off my brother, Lobbed the last one in a handy bin on a whim, And the three or four before that one, and a couple went out the car window.

Anyhow, I very rarely may make a phone call or send a txt, 99 percent of the time its so people can bother me with crap I dont care about.

God damn Im intolerant..... :annoyed:
Metla (12)
434424 2006-02-27 09:34:00 Heh, I loath mobile phones (and any bills thereof).

Yeah it is a bit wierd, but most of the time I'd rather people took the time to engage the brain cells and write a sensible email.

Wake me up when you can properly surf the web........
gibler (49)
434425 2006-02-27 10:29:00 The worst part of having a mobile phone is trying to get someone older than you to use it.

E.g Your parents...

That or getting a very big bil (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz)l at the end of the month
bob_doe_nz (92)
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