Why do iPhone owners...?
I know I made a joke about iPhone owners elsewhere, but really, why do iPhone owners feel the need to tell you that they have an iPhone? And then most of them will say something like "best phone in the world..." yes, okay, we get the message.
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Shaun.
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Shaun.
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I wouldnt mind if people used the iphone for all the functionality it has, the people i know with an iphone just like it as it displays the txt messages in a nice way they like ! Forget the millions of apps etc it has, they just get one simply as its an 'iphone' and to become a sheep and follow the masses. Ridiculous. Might as well get any type of mobile if youre not going to use it for lots of other stuff.
To be fair over the years you've had some geeks waffle on about their mobiles, talking about the games, but worst of all 'i have 78 ringtones, listen, when someone calls me the Star Trek theme plays !' (oh god no).
But i must admit i'm a slight convert. Since buying an ipod touch a few weeks ago i love that tiny machine, best thing i've bought in the last 20 years (even the wifes engagement ring is 2nd on the list ;)
Because that's what they were told and they fell for it it. Suckers!
TBH i don't really use it as much these days
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=sony+k320i&tag=googhydr-21&index=electronics&hvadid=7598786206&ref=pd_sl_1zr3o1jxlm_b
As a recent iPad convert, I am apparently sending e-mail with a similar tagline. So I am going to assume that iPhone owners have also not deliberately chosen or know of the tagline...
It's like the way, up until about 2002, every PC owner you met seemed to think that you couldn't survive the next minute without being told what sort of PC they had, in tedious detail, including a complete inventory of the total amount of RAM on the thing, not that the owner actually knew what RAM was of course.
"It's a Pentium 3 with eight-hundred and fifty hertz, it's got two Voodoo two graphics cards, they're the best they are, connected together, a Soundblaster soundcard, they're top they are, a hundred and twenty mega-byte hard disk, a CD player, two USB holes , Windows 98, which is much better than that rubbish Windows 95, and it's got", and he knows total this by heart of course (and it's always a "he"), "a hundred and thirty-seven megabytes in it, because there's two lots of 8 mega-bytes in the graphics cards, hundred and twenty mega-bytes on the hard disk, but that's called giga-bytes 'cos it's faster than normal mega-bytes, half a mega-byte on the soundcard, and half a mega-byte on the motherboard".
Nowadays of course, since the naming and numbering system of motherboards, graphics card, and CPUs became so complicated that not even their manufacturers know which is which, you don't tend to get PC owners boasting about their specs. anymore, as they can't tell if their's is any better than any one elses, so mobile phones are the new "Alrigtht, so I can't get a girlfriend, but at least I've got an impressive" gadget. Trouble is, half of these people can't even dial a number on their phones now without ten minutes of random button pressing.
I'm quite happy with the Blackberry I got from Virgin just before Xmas. Does everything I need.
I've always had the attitude with a phone (mobile or landline) that I'll answer it when I see fit - especially useful these days being able to see who's calling you. I once had several calls from someone at work on a Sunday afternoon and I didn't answer one of them (I knew what the call was about and it wasn't even remotely important) as I was busy with the family. Then I had the "what's the point of having a mobile if you're not going to answer it?" remark the next day at work. Well, that was like a red rag to a bull...
Yeah don't you just hate it when people say that.....pricks!
It's like since you have a mobile you owe them your time and you've got no excuse for not giving it to them.
Precisely. What made it worse was it was a works mobile which gave them the attitude that no matter the time of day, whatever I may have been in the middle of doing, ANY time would be perfectly reasonable for them to ring. I tore a strip out of that prick, believe me, and handed in the phone.
The Blackberrys have gone in favour of iPhones, and now he is trying to get iPads used everywhere. (In fairness there is a good case for touch screen tablet use but apparently only Apple make them).
It bugs him that I refuse to have an iPhone and use my ?10 Nokia instead. I told him the most useful feature for me was the mini torch on the Nokia and no end of apps would help me trace cables with the phone held in my mouth,
It also really bugs him that I keep referring to iPads as fondleslabs on the basis that they can't do anything I need to do so all I can do with it is fondle it.
Why people feel the need to tell you they have one I don't know (especially as you can get one for $49 now with contract renewal), but those people talking crap about it are equally jumping on the 'lets 'dis' apple/Microsoft' bandwagon I think to some extent.
The only issue I have ever had with it is the battery life, other than that it does everything I want so I'm very happy with it.
(BTW, I hear more android owners telling you about there phone than I do Iphone users...can't remember last time someone blabbed about their iphone to me as they are common as muck).
I think it was about 2000 when I got rid of mine - kept going to obscure places on the motorbike for a pot of tea and to meet folk and realised I was getting the phone out the second I sat down and it just seemed a bit unsociable. So I got rid.
My big question is this - where do you guys keep your phone numbers?
Mine are on scraps of paper which keep falling off the fireplace and getting lost.
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Posted by iPhone
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I don't have any friends and so I don't need to remember any phone numbers!!!! No - only kidding!
I keep them on a small spreadsheet on the PC. Nothing fancy - just names, addresses and numbers.
I always feel that computers are being left out now as there are all these mobile devices around. I still hold onto the '80's idealisms that the computer should be used for all those sort of things. I collect old British films (I have over 600) and I have all the details of them on a database which means that I can search for any film and it will quickly show me the title, disc number, year and so on.
Beanz, please don't get me wrong - I think the new generation of phones and mobile devices are fantastic and I really don't buy into the Apple/Microsoft bashing at all. It's just that they aren't for me.
Mind you, saying that I do have an iPod touch!!! I don't really use it, though. It sits in the docking station of my hi-fi waiting to be used......waiting......waiting!!
See i was anti apple, had a lot of friends who arent really into computers but they had to buy an Apple computer to be 'cool' (and just use it for browsing the net thats it). Same for iphones, the people who use it for more than just texting/calling people - good on em, the ones who just txt/call and nothing else, just posey, just get any type of phone then.
I do think in this day and age its essential to have a mobile though, just a pay as you talk as if you break down its well worth the 10 quid or so you have to put on it every few months.
But i was converted a few weeks regarding the Ipod touch. itsallgood - cant believe you havent added any games on it ? The Speccy one is superb, theres a ton of great retro ones, i've been veryyyyyy surprised how good it is for gaming. I've totally done a u-turn about them
One of the most funnist things I've seen is when an iphone user drops it and its smashes to bits, also when they are texting and walk into a sign or lamp post making them drop it.
On the BBC the other week they showed this woman (Think from America) in a shopping mall, txting and went straight over this little wall into the fountain. Got up, very embarassed, got her phone and carried on walking out. Caught on CCTV, very amusing.
But still think a cheap mobile is essential if you drive anywhere in case you break down etc.
I don't have a car either! So not much use for a phone.
Woman falling into fountain? Here you go :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpzj4PjNjU
I have tried some games on the iPod touch. They are good but the screen is very small. Call me old fashioned but I like to play games on an old fashioned monitor ;)
summer before the last, nipped out on my bike, didn't take my mobile - wasn't going far, on the by pass got a puncture at a touch above the national speed limit, pulled off the by-pass and..... no one about, only a couple of houses - what isn't far on a bike, is miles as a pedestrian, no phone boxes around - and I had to contact the RAC..... so someone stopped and let me use their phone - but the RAC didn't come and cancelled the job cos they couldn't find me. So I waited over three hours in the end.
so I always take my phone now!
I could actually have nursed the bike home on a flat, I've done it before, but the tyre was salvagable ?20 repair, didn't want to wreck it and buy a new one
I looked into getting a phone just for the GPS 'cos I was gonna get a Garmin satnav that could sit on both my pushbikes and motorbikes. The top of the range new garmin is 400 quid now and that's the one I'd want but is it possible to use a pay as you go phone and do it cheaper?
I did try asking in couple of the big phone shops but they said I'd need a contract really 'cos GPS uses a lot of data.
Now, I know oviously they are just trying to sell me a contract. So has anyone tried used a GPS phone on pay as you go?
Sure, but be honest now. You could have had a smartphone years ago from the likes of Nokia, Palm or Blackberry that would have done most, if not all, of that. Few people did, and of those not so many made a big song and dance about it.
I suppose the iPhone does benefit from a better interface and more high quality apps than its honorable ancestors, but even there I'd think that it's being rapidly overhauled by Android.
Well Android is finally off and running with their games/apps but theyre still a long long way behind the ipod/iphone. The amount of games has really taken off the last year and theres a ton of games being added every month. Be interesting to see if Android can ever catch up or overtake.
It could be worse, 15 years ago people were waffling on about their 90 ringtones they have on their phone !
My phone is a cheap Android one (T-Mobile Pulse) and to be honest, whenever I use it I keep comparingly it unfabourably to the iPod. Yes, it's not really like-for-like (the phone cost ?100 on PAYG; hardly fair to compare it to a less capable device which cost more), but while the iPod is a joy to use, my Android phone is adequate, nothing more. The Android market seems to be getting dangerously fragmented, too; there are countless manufacturers, and they all seem intent on rolling out newer and better phones every 6 months or so, all with wildly differing specs.
Also I was annoyed when Apple announced that they wouldn't be releasing iOS4 for my iPod Touch, but my Android phone is STILL stuck with 1.5 (despite being not all that old a phone); 2.1 was released but withdrawn after problems (to do with text messages not being received, I think) and last time I checked there was no indication whether it was going to be fixed or not. I'm sure I read that one major manufacturer (Samsung I think?) won't be upgrading their existing devices to 2.2 or beyond either, which is pretty terrible really.
Also, Apple's App Store makes it easy to find and install things, whereas Android's is WOEFUL; there's no official web interface to make it easy to link to stuff from your computer (although there are unofficial third-party ones you can use), the store on the phone is hard to navigate, and if the phone manufacturer hasn't paid the appropriate fees to Google then you might find that your phone doesn't even allow app store access.
With iOS you're very much locked into doing things the way Apple wants you to do them whereas Android gives far more flexibility; but with only a very few exceptions (eg. custom on-screen keyboards, and to be fair the one in iOS is excellent; I only installed a custom one on my phone because the default was awful), I'm happy with the way it does things.
I think basically what I'm saying is that it's easy to hate the iPhone for its ubiquity and the fawning regard in which many people hold it, but it IS a genuinely great phone.