fmdog44
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Phones were invented so we could talk to each other while new phones do everything but that.
A Thought On Phones Today
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Packerjohn
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The voice transmission on the new "does everything but clean your toenails" phones is not very good. I have a bit of a hearing problem and I hate when I have to listen to a "smart/dumb phone. A flip phone or the now unpopular landlines were so much better for voice transmission. Ya, I know, they didn't count the steps when you went out for a walk! It was tough in the ole' days. LOL
SetWave
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HoneyNut
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I still think it is so cool to facetime/duo-call with people. It used to bug me when my daughter was young and would wander around the house with friends on her phone and I'd be in my pajamas or something and feel all exposed.
But now that she's off on her own it is so great to facetime with her and see her. I am hoping to get my bestie-since-gradeschool to answer a duo-call, I haven't seen her for years and it would be nice to compare wrinkley-ness.
It feels so futuristic to see each other during phone calls, I feel like we're the Jetsons.
But now that she's off on her own it is so great to facetime with her and see her. I am hoping to get my bestie-since-gradeschool to answer a duo-call, I haven't seen her for years and it would be nice to compare wrinkley-ness.
It feels so futuristic to see each other during phone calls, I feel like we're the Jetsons.
Nathan
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I'd like to get rid of our landline, I wish it did have a ringer that could be turned off. Cellphones ARE a pain, but they are easy to turn on "do not disturb" with just the swipe of a finger. As a matter of fact, "do not disturb" gets turned on by accident alot. I hate the Touch Technology, but recognize the necessity on smart devices.
What exactly is the necessity of a smart phone? I don't have one. I don't need one. I don't really want one. However, because so many businesses are pushing their services through smart phone technology it's making it practically impossible to not have one. I think they're too damned expensive. I can't justify paying $500 for something that could hit the floor and break. Something I don't know how to use. Something I gotta worry about purse dialing someone if I go somewhere and set my purse down just right. I appreciate what your saying don't get me wrong. I just don't think certain technology is for everyone. You know?
We have a wall-mounted telephone (landline), and it's left in the OFF position 24/7. It's for emergencies (power outages, etc).
In addition to, we have a portable cordless telephone upstairs and down, both of which can also be turned OFF, and believe me, we do at times.
I can't imagine living my life around a clunky cellphone. When I leave the house I'm tied to zero, zip, zilch, just the way I like it. Telephone is at home where it belongs, not on my person... ringing and irritating me when I am out and about.
Besides, I find it refreshing to not look like the rest of the ding-dongs out there who look as though they've glued their ears and noses to the screens of their cellphones, and/or cannot make a move or do anything without their cellphones being a part of it.
There is no necessity.
It boils down to people not being able to pull themselves away from technology.
Funny how everyone in the past managed perfectly well in the department of landlines.
I don't have a cellphone either, and my husband who's retiring at the end of the year said before he pushes the exit door open when he's leaving the office for the last time, will be tossing his into the garbage can on the way out.
He loathes having to use and have a cellphone.
I have no landline. It's disintegrated and somewhere in the yard. There's not even a spot for a landline in the apartment. So my cellphone is my only communication means. It spends most of it's time on vibrate and it still annoys me. If I go out to eat with someone I have the decency to shut mine off. I don't talk to people on my phone in public either. Most can't even pee without talking to someone on their phone in public. The only thing I like about it is that if I get stranded somewhere I can call for help....provided I have enough phone battery...*RME*
I laid the law down a couple of years ago when I was putting on a family dinner. I walked into the living room at one point and everyone was sitting their quiet with their noses glued to the screens of their cellphones.
I told everyone to shut their phones off, put them away, and that I didn't want to see them out again.
The people who really irritate me are those who stand in a bank line-up carrying on a full-fledged conversation with someone on their cellphone.
HELLO, OH HI JOE, I'M JUST RUNNING AROUND TOWN TODAY DOING THIS AND THAT, HOW YOU DOIN'?
WELL I HAVE A LITTLE BANKING TO FINISH UP AND THEN HOW ABOUT WE MEET UP AND DROP IN FOR A BEER AT SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE?
OH, HEY, BY THE WAY, HOW'S JANE DOING? LAST TIME I SEEN HERE SHE WAS RECOVERING FROM HER HERNIA OPERATION.
MAN OH MAN, GOTTA TELL YOU THOUGH, JOE, BOY, DID I HAVE A CASE OF DIARRHEA THE OTHER NIGHT, BUT I'LL TELL ABOUT IT MORE OVER OUR SIT DOWN WHEN WE HAVE A BEER!
OKAY, THANKS FOR CALLING!
Give me a break! Take your conversation elsewhere DING-DONG, like outside!
IrisSenior
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Cell phones are so much better that the landline we used to have. With landline-need to run sometimes to pick up the phone; I did have caller id and it was a bummer to find out it was an unknown number calling and I ran for nothing. My cellphone keeps me attached to home when I am out. I can turn off the ringer when I want. I can look up shopping when I am out and then map it to give to directions there (don't use that as much right now). I can take pictures and send to others. I charge the phone every night and have a charger in the car when I am driving. We have a family plan so it is cheaper.
SetWave
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One day in early 1970 I was home alone and the telephone rang. I looked at it and decided I didn't want to talk to anyone so just let it ring. That was a very liberating moment as I resisted the Pavolvian response to run and get it.
As for landlines, I live in an area poorly covered by cell towers so it saves the day for talking. Also, this comes to mind, people are fighting the building of cell towers in their neighborhoods and I imagine them talking about it on their phones, "Can you hear me???".
As for landlines, I live in an area poorly covered by cell towers so it saves the day for talking. Also, this comes to mind, people are fighting the building of cell towers in their neighborhoods and I imagine them talking about it on their phones, "Can you hear me???".
HoneyNut
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That's a pet peeve for me that they are apparently easy to break. So not only do you buy a phone but then a need to buy a screen protector and a shock-absorbing cover. And they make the phones so hard to hold onto, but I got a nice grippy sort of case and also a pop-up stand/grip. Then a holder for the car (which I've never used and just remembered I have!). Plus the phones are so big now that I only have one brand/style of pants/jeans that has big enough pockets.
I saved money by purchasing a refurbished phone from Amazon. With it being used and the points I'd saved up on my Amazon credit card, I got the phone for only $250 a couple years ago. The downside of buying the older used model is that now after only two years the maker doesn't put out any more updates for it, so in another year or two I'll need to buy a new phone. The upside of the way I bought the phone is that it is 'unlocked' not restricted to a carrier, so it was easy to insert a sim card for Europe when I traveled.
I don't think smart phones purse/butt-call people anymore because one inputs a pin to unlock the phone before using it, so that is a great improvement.
I'm pretty happy with smart phones now, they are tiny computers and I can use it to play games, deposit checks, get two-factor security codes that are so annoying but important, I can ask it for stuff like 'Hey Google, coconut macaroon recipes', or 'Hey Google, happy cat meowing' (that's how I discovered Butters the Bean on YouTube).
Now if I can just figure out how to get it to tell me where to turn when I'm driving I will be very happy with smart phones.
Also, I ask my phone how to use it when I can't figure it out, and it finds the info for me.
Nathan
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I resisted the idea of having a smartphone until 2013, but I was becoming aware that a smartphone has numerous electronic devices all rolled into one:
Phone
Music player
GPS navigator
Web browser
....so I gave it a shot, was going to be my computer-tech project to learn as my hobby is computers.
I find the cell phone to be indispensable for navigation, particularly in unfamiliar areas. I rarely talk on the cell phone, my hearing is not good but I prefer texting over yaking on the phone. I like having a device that I can browse the web with when out for finding goods and services
The music player is handy, however the sound quality is poor, at least on the cell phones that I buy, which have been in the $250-$300 range.
Last thing I wanna hear about is someone's discussion of bodily functions while I'm eating dinner at a restaurant. Cellphones basically put peoples manners in the corner. I have no desire to sit in a room full oh heathens with no table manners. LOL
AND Marg is right. None of us died from leaving the house without a cellphone. Most of our lives we were disconnected from everyone when we left the house and we survived.
For some this is ok. I'm just not one that appreciates all the stuff cellphones have brought into our modern world.
For some this is ok. I'm just not one that appreciates all the stuff cellphones have brought into our modern world.
JonDouglas
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I remember giving a technology presentation to the top brass of a very large insurance company. One of the closing conclusions presented was the idea that data, text, voice and image would be integrated into one device that would likely be portable. After the presentation, one of the top SVPs and board member pulled me aside and said, "They didn't believe you." I think my response was, "That's their problem." The idea that people would want a multi-function didn't register. What they didn't understand was that the phone, radio and TV were invented to communicate, not just talk. The smart phones are just the latest continuance of that trend.
Yes but some people as usual...don't seem to have any understanding that there's a time and place for that kinda crap. Talking about someone's exploding bowels in a restaurant while people are eating is inappropriate. That crap wouldn't happen if we didn't have portable communication. Why can't they wait till they get home to do that stuff?
To me it's the equivalent of me standing in a crowded restaurant telling them all my business. I'm sure they wanna know that I shart myself while I was sick with the flu last week and my dentures have some sort of scum on them because I never soak them while they're eating. (Just examples)
To me it's the equivalent of me standing in a crowded restaurant telling them all my business. I'm sure they wanna know that I shart myself while I was sick with the flu last week and my dentures have some sort of scum on them because I never soak them while they're eating. (Just examples)