I LOVE CELL PHONES

also I never use it

It locks itself automatically so you have to perform a keypress to get it into a state where you can dial people.

WOOT

I am eagerly looking forward to importing my old contact lists into this beast; I've already got all of my work meetings for the rest of the year in it.

following protracted and heated negotiations with my phone company today and yesterday - long, tedious, not worth repeating - i'm getting sent a motorola L6. w00t. as long as the third-party hack for iSync works, it should rock.

all i need is an inexpensive phone with a calendar and bluetooth. it's not much to ask, is it? but or*ng* seem to think so.

I am about to do one of these for my roomie for the RAZR (v3 i think)... anyone ever try that? O_o

http://www.geocities.com/xxserenitynow/bunnyballoon.gif

to everyone i know

http://www.nokia.fi/img/products/3650/proddet.jpg

I went without a cellphone for a long time so in dec of last year i rewarded myself with this bitchin' lil number for actual calls:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5946/pinkie8st.jpg

then pleasant plains gave me this, which i use only for data (even though its a phone as well). the keyboard absolutely rules:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/103/sidekicker4db.jpg

and i love love love love them both. i wanted to get the sidekick all prettied up like below but it cost min $400 and with the way i throw shit around i dont think it would look like that for long:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4949/kickyblue7bv.jpg

no, mine has the rotary-style keypad. it's one of the main reasons i bought it!

http://downloads.xonio.com/images/devices/handy/nokia_5110_350.jpg

-- A BOLD QUAHOG (dr_...) (webmail), Yesterday 4:56 PM. (ex machina) (later)

jon, id be really interested to know how you do with this. its really tempting (is it true you can get up tp 10MB of memory once the phone is flashed? my razr runs out of memory stupidly fast) but I heard if you screw it up yr completely fucked.

heres a forum with tutorials etc. these guys seem more than happy to send flashing/flexing files to anyone who asks:

http://forums.mobiledia.com/forum51.html

CINGULAR IN DA HEEZY

How do the mp3s sound and how is the video recorder.

I haven't listened to any mp3s yet, mostly because you HAVE to put them on a flash card and I don't currently have one (btw guess what I'm buying tomorrow). I've only made 1 video of my messy work cubicle and it was kind of choppy and grainy, but that's infinitely better than no ability to make any kind of video at all.

I've already got one semi-major gripe, namely that I'm not entirely certain that I can accurately edit contact info on my phone (at least, I can't edit it following any of the intuitive steps one might take; maybe stuff on my SIM card can't be edited? who knows). Right now I'm guessing that certain entries have to be edited via Palm Desktop/Outlook.

However that gripe is totally offset by how I'm SUPER-PSYCHED that I can sync against Outlook on my work computer and Palm Desktop on my home computer!

I'm a phone rockist, a querty keypad = I'm sorry, that's a jumped-up PDA

Which is EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED! Woot!

WHY I HATE THE RAZR

1) It doesn't let you sync entries that are on the SIM only in phone memory
2) It has sync problems where it doesn't realize some phone number fields that are part of an entry are phone numbers. Somehow after syncing these entries to the computer (thus creating a name in address book), resyncing blew them away on the Razr.
3) The context menus on the Razr are awful.

Style over substance :(

i'd think a qwerty keypad would be more rockist. ;-)

The positive view of this is that it gets rid of people I didn't want to talk to anyway, and will make me get back in contact with the people I really do want to talk to. xpost

RUN AWAY

The sidekicker on the other hand has 50 contacts and rising but I use that more for email, real addresses and birthdays. It is a jumped up PDA but a jumped up PDA with email and real web browsing. I think its more like a mini wireless laptop that I can use anywhere. It has a decent image editing program too, so it covers all I really need. Curiously, you can't send picture messages. You have to email them. Oh and if someone send you a picture message it arrives as a link to the My Album thingy t-mobile have on their site.
Queer.
The qwerty keyboard kicks ass, btw. Texting is for chumps.

but, chiz chiz chiz, it doesn't sync with teh mac. BASTARD. even with the aforementioned sync.

i think this is the point where i bite the bullet and upgrade to 10.4. i mean: it's kinda dawned on me that almost any new phone isn't going to sync, given that i'm sitting using iSync 1.5 and everyone else is up to 2.1 (which only runs on tiger).

still, 'rah, i'll be able to use google earth, i s'pose. and ... er ... ooh, spotlight. and dashboard. meh.

Also, a phone used by both Mike Skinner and Alan Partridge (noted above).

im happy with my LG w 'fastap' texting buttons and random vibrating (dropped in shitter)

actually im not

http://www.andovercg.com/ebay/images/motorola_timeport_p8167.jpg

are there Verizon-compatible RAZRs and do I want one?

http://www.vzwshop.com/razr/

Third-party software is where it gets really fun though.

I couldn't edit the contacts that came from my SIM card that were on my other phone.

It makes you navigate through Sim city.

-- Steve Shasta (steveshast...) (webmail), Yesterday 6:35 PM. (Steve Shasta) (later)

dude, tell me that razr did not just zoom spaceship style over the horizon.

http://www.coolsmartphone.com/article479.html

wifi! qwerty keyboard! etc! i'm psyched.

FDA to review wireless phone safety

The researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life compared data from 2,200 cancer patients and an equal number of healthy patients.

Those who heavily used wireless phones had a 240 percent increased risk of a cancerous tumor on the side of the head where they used their phone, they reported.

Their results, published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, defined heavy use of wireless phones as 2,000 or more hours, or about one hour per day for 10 years.

Toby, did you ever get that phat phone?

6310i, style, design icon.

I love my Sony Ericsson. Still the same one as mentioned above:

http://mobile.itek.cz/k_152-Mobilni-telefony-Sony-Ericsson/img-shop/670297.jpg

Found out that my friend has the same one. She:"Everyone seems to have it!"

I'd love to get that Treo but fek I don't email that much. Also I haven't yet managed to get the MMS and email thing to work on my cellphone, so why bother with something more complex like a Treo?

I just got a new phone last weekend, and while I miss my old one a little, I have already fallen in love with the new guy. It's got GPS navigation, Bluetooth, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and videophone capabilities.

http://www.mobileguerilla.com/images/lg-vx8300.jpg

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/13/0,1425,sz=1&i=132715,00.jpg

http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/13/0,1425,sz=1&i=132713,00.jpg

My new phone. Has radio. Camera. MP3 player.

Replacing the crappy joystick with a joypad type thing is an improvement.

http://www.mobilegazette.com/images/sony-ericsson/sony-ericsson-w810-combo.jpg

http://uk.gizmodo.com/nokia%20e61.jpg

Please talk me into, our out of, it!

LISTEN i have a question.

so im going to australia in december and i will probably need my cellie to call other australians while im there. t-mobile gave me the option of $1.49 per minute OR giving me an unlock code so i can use a local australian company while im down there. i want to do the latter, obv, but i have a vague memory of someone saying australian sim cards are a different size than US ones. Does anyone know if thats true? If its true for other countries?

Just to be safe, I'd both turn on internationally dialing and unlock the phone. Bring your old SIM, and if you run into trouble with the prepaid then just switch back and use the ridiculously expensive international roaming rates.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8758/nokia7380yx9.jpg

but, how do i dialed phone number?

The functionality and software on nokias are like 373478438734x better than Motorolas.

Best interface I've had: Sony Ericsson.

motorola is great if all youre doing is making phone calls

i love cell phones in many ways, and still do not have one but wish i did, for the convenience. but i hate having conversations with people on cell phones. i hate the half-there, half-distracted voice people get. i feel like if i had a cell phone i'd forever be standing in a corner somewhere trying to have a real conversation.

but okay i know cell phones are not really for real conversations, usually. my brother's only phone is a cell phone, however - 20% of the time we have proper conversations, 80% of the time i cannot deal. do all cell phones have such crappy mics too, where all the background noise turns to high-freq pain transmission? it seems that way. my eaaarrrss ow.
it is all kind of frustrating

HAY GUISE I HAS AN IPHONE NOW THAT I GOT FOR FREE

I have a 3-yr-old Samsung w/no service that I use to play Text Twist and Tetris on the bus. Something about holding a cell phone–no one on the bus tries to talk to me, unlike when I am reading a book while wearing headphones and sunglasses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/business/09cell.html

Whoa. It's like reading The Daily Telegraph in 1999.

Who writes this shit? I didn't even read past the 1st page.

i didn't get past the first paragraph

MS. TURKLE, the M.I.T. professor, says cellphones offer another way for the Facebook generation to share every life experience the second it unfolds.

That's some serious book learning you got there, Turkle.

Nobody should have gotten past the headline.

I want to know who reads it (apart from me, I mean). Is there an audience for this?

Is texting still a newsworthy cultural phenomenon in the U.S. and is this just a bad article? Or is the NYT unusually behind the times (and this is a bad article)?

texting in US is still 2-5 years behind euros, the NYT is always behind the times, and this is a terrible article

http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/movie/perfectstorm/perfect_storm_2.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/09/business/09cell.large3.jpg

I've never seen Sherry Turkle produce anything worthwhile and her shit gets less and less interesting. In the mid 90s it seemed like she was doing more stuff about how like MUD players cope with transgender-roleplaying a frog mage or something.

a few years ago she was 'the next lacan' lol

technology and trends are two things the times does worst and when they meet watch out

http://dvice.com/archives/2007/11/pentaphone_isolation_space_ens.php

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