i <strike>hate</strike> love the cell phone industry

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really. especially cause i can't have a blackberry pearl.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

no comment

― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

i luv my razr luv u boo

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

USA IS ABOUT 15 YEARS BEHIND JAPAN AS FAR AS TECH AND FEATURES, ACCESSIBILTY, USER FRIENDLY FUNCTIONALITY GOES.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET THE FINGER PHONE!!?!?

http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/yubiwa.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

i'ts a sex object

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

Serious question: does anyone know of a really nice, well-built, sturdy cell phone? Dont need fancy features i just want a good phone that dont feel like it's gonna break so easy. Why don't they make metal cell phones? I would buy an iPhone if it has the same exterior hardware quality of an ipod.

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

unlucky: http://www.mport.ru/catalog_foto/phone/motorola_e815_1.jpg

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

just discovered salling clicker and am freaking out

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

E815 is the one pictured i think? it was discontinued because it had horrible freezing issues. the V710 is metal too i think. if you want sturdy then get one of those huge horrible motorolas that look like an 80s sony walkman.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have a metal phone. Samsung RAZR knockoff through Sprint.

Feels sturdy, but it's wearing worse than any phone I've had before. The outer screen scratches easily and the black paint is wearing off to shiny metal.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

my new lg vcast is ok but it's not very intuitive (which my nokia was).

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

i ordered a new cell phone from verizon last week and the first rep i talked to said, "oh the phone was delivered but it was returned to sender!" i replied, "oh that's okay, just send it again". long silence, followed by, "which phone would you like?" i said, "whatever one i ordered". long story short, they didn't have a record of which phone i ordered. and then i was disconnected because my call dropped. i called them again, and the second rep told me they didn't have a record of the failed delivery.

― gear (gear), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

anyway i'm keeping my old phone.

― gear (gear), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

nerding out on treo 700p =

4gb media player
+plays non-apple supported media)
+blue-tooth stereo broadcast to bluetooth headphones (no cords/wires)

no wi-fi, but has evdo
+dsl wireless speeds in metro areas (pricy but get your employer to expense it)

if cutty likes sailing clicker, he might like MyTunesRSS/orb
+remote streaming access to your home media library
+i'm not a TV head but you can even slingbox in to live TV

early adopter syndrome = :-\

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

only semi-related but i want a squeezebox

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

cutty never sleeps at night

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

yes but that's for different reasons

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

he goes in and out and in and out

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

ddb's got a squeezebox

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

all i care about is that i can do TEXT MESSAGING. other creature comforts can go fuck themselves.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

the lg/verizon text messaging suxors because it won't tell you if your message was delivered successfully unless you're texting to another verizon phone. if not, it says "delivery incomplete" regardless of whether or not the message went through.

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

i like the RAZR because it is thin but it has a weak camera and the vibrate feature is really poor, which is bothersome.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I want a PDA-style phone just so I can text message. Scrolling through letters is more trouble than it's worth.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

If the Treo 700p had wi-fi and didn't cost $650, it would be perfect.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah one thing i miss about my old phone is that my razr has no "vibe and ring" feature

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

i should also mention that i have a razr only because i am too lazy to transfer the number over to my blackberry.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

never had a cellphone

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

i hate verizon because i can not get the pretty phone i want because it is gsm and not cdma and verizon is the devil when it comes to locking phone features and texting (only unlimited to other verizon peeps so i end up paying a lot anyway). i still have a year left :(

i have had the e815 pictured above for a year... works pretty well. it does freeze occasionally. do you think i could complain and get a new phone for free???

ugh i just checked verizon to see if i could change the txting plan and apparently now the $5 a month covers 250 unlimited messages to anyone, but if i change to that i would have to renew my contract i think. bastards.

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

verizon has best service
worst phones, worst data plan
i hate

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

otm on all counts

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

i plow through 250 text messages in a day

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

why

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

i want the shoe phone from get smart, only baby shoe size

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

ericsson t630. not bad but the navigation joystick is playing up I think. not ideal. it was cheap to buy though.

― genital hyphys (haitch), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

cutty, blackberrys are crappy unless youre a corporate type

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

law school = crackberry = necessary evol

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys, i'm not a lawyer anymore, i'm a rock star. change your filofaxes.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty happy with cingular. service is fine, plan rates are decent, and though they've screwed up every bill so far it only takes a quick call to get them to sort things out. in fact, they always credit me back more money than i deserve. i like that feature.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

how the hell are you texting that much?...yr not a fourteen yr old girl!

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

that was an exaggeration

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

I wish my nokia 770 had an app to allow me to bluetooth texts to my nokia 3660.

While I'm wishing, it'd be cool if it could pull incoming texts into the email app.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

well to anyone who has verizon: always remember when you renew/change your contract i think they're supposed to give you a new phone or a new phone discount. even if they aren't you can easily convince the idiots at the union sqaure verizon store that they should

― bla$$$t (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I could get a blackberry pearl today but I have no particular use for it. Also I heard EDGE is slow, my reception is bad enough without paying extra for something slow and useless.

What other T-mobile phone should I get instead? The PEBL is out, I don't want anymore motorola shit in my life.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Motorola is the Sony of mobiles, amirite?
Which makes Sony Ericcson like the Creative of mobiles?

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Somebody should take note of the fact that all phones currently on sale from everywhere would look 200% better if you inverted the color scheme

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

example?

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

get the pearl!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/88/241674428_a564e518da_o.png

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

dude I know the pearl is like the best looking one, wtf RIM going for form as well as function

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

haha nice pic

― ([][][][][][][][][]) (blastocyst), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

note subliminal phosphorescent boogers on the sidekick keyboard, there

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://pics.rbc.ru/img/cnews/2006/01/23/7380-7280.jpg
NOKIA 7x80

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Theresa to thread to talk about crazy spin flip phone

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

These are features I want in my next cellphone:

1. hardcore rubber casing so no more fatal concrete drops
2. built-in flashlight

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ideally I'd like cellphones that worked and looked exactly like Star Fleet comm-badges.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

nick:

http://www.sonamobile.com/themephones/images/def_header.jpg http://www.gadgetlounge.net/images/BluetoothStarTrekCommunicator.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

also the pebl has nice rubber casing i think

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i spent approx $4000 american on txt messages last month. chumped.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

dude?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

or should I say, "14 year old girl?"

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

verizon called me in the middle of the day one day to tell me i was avging 181 txts a month and that i could save 8 bucks a month if i got a txt plan.

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

the black pearl seems cool but thirty extra bucks a month for EDGE is ridiculous

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's better than Sprint's EV-DO plan at $60/month (it's faster, but I don't need cable modem speed on my cell).

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm using the TMobile TZones WAP plan ~$6 a month IIRC which gives you an HTTP-proxy'd connection. Works fine for web browsing from 770 and Pppppowerbook though.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

that nokia was insane w/ the scrolly wheel... maybe you'd get used to it after a while but it just seems like a txting nightmare to me.

7370 = PRETTY

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

THERESA THE SOLUTION IS A BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD IN YOUR PURSE!!!

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

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i hate love the cell phone industry