Progress???

[Termite]

Well a few years ago the company I work for dragged me kicking and screaming into the modern age of communications. ie. a mobile phone. So being the with it swinger that I am I chose one that just made phone calls and could receive phone calls and messages, I mean whats a phone for anyway?
Well we're with Vodaphone and they have a loyalty programe, so this morning arrived a super whizbang thing about as big as a matchbox with buttons the size of a pinhead and it does everything. SMS, PXT, TXT, Voicemail, email, pictures, video, pxt video, games, songs, internet, and when I finally figure out how to turn the bruddy thing on I might be lucky and find that it actually does phone calls too. Its got a colour screen and I can, for a fee of course, download god knows how many ringtones and songs from people I've never heard of, pretty pictures to stare at on the screen while I figure out which mini-button to try and press with my pudgy digits. I can take a video of a dancing dingbat and send it to some poor SOB who doesn't realy give a rats behind.
All this in the name of progress, all I want is a damn phone.

[jackiew]

you're in good company ... my son was amazed that I'd never even tried the games on my phone, much less modified the ring-tone.

So far its survived being kicked around the dance floor at a gig ( its sufficiently old fashioned that I got it back ), dropped from heights and otherwise abused.

Why would I want a new one? I can just about see that there might be occasions when taking a photo of something while you're out would be useful but its just one more thing to worry about losing.

From my observations those who can least afford an all singing and dancing phone are those who HAVE to have one.

[Wongo]

All this mobile stuff is getting ridiculous. A phone is a phone. That’s why I still refuse to have one.

Here is a trick question for you. Would you buy a mobile phone that takes photos or a camera that makes phone calls? Something for the marketing gurus to think about.

[craigb]

The only reason I have one is because work wants me to have it and are prepared to pay for it.
They'll only pay for the bog standard one though so I don't have to worry about cameras and such like. It's probably only a matter of time though.

[silentC]

The friggin things are getting so small and complicated it's a joke. There should be a law against it because the only motivation is to sell them to kids and get them to ring up huge bills that their parents will have to pay.

Beam me up Scotty... (now THAT would be a phone feature I'd pay for )

[Wongo]

A bit off the topic and sorry to termite.

Can someone please tell me why would you want to access the internet on a fridge? And who the hell came up with such idea? :confused:

[barnsey]

Me too - my phone has all those features and I'm flat out answering the bloody thing much less able to memorise the 360 pages of detailed instructions for all the other fandangled money spending features :mad: :mad:

PS If the telly screen was on the fridge at least I wouldn't have to walk so far to get a tinny

[jackiew]

A bit off the topic and sorry to termite.

Can someone please tell me why would you want to access the internet on a fridge? And who the hell came up with such idea? :confused:

apparently its so you can create your online grocery order as soon as you realise that everything in your fridge has turned into a health hazzard.

If its a really smart fridge it will detect the fact that you've just removed the last tomato and order you some more without you having to do anything

I'd just settle for a self cleaning fridge

[Rocker]

I have had a bog-standard mobile phone for three years and still don't know how to use it. I only got it because the phone was free and the monthly rental is $4.99. Of course, if you do actually make a phone call on it, they charge about $2 per second. Only time it was used was to report that our land line was out of order, and that cost us about $25 to do

I suppose it may come in useful if the car broke down. But we have a very reliable car.

Rocker

[Wood Borer]

If the telly screen was on the fridge at least I wouldn't have to walk so far to get a tinny

Perhaps a fridge under your TV rather than a TV on your fridge.

If it keeps heading this way, what will happen to woodworking? CNC machines in every shed? Doing woodwork remotely? Perhaps I can suggest to Thomas Lie Nielsen that he brings out an addition to his planes so the tools in my shed can be operated from my desk at work or when I am flying. Gee that would be fun!!!

[ozwinner]

be operated from my desk at work or when I am flying.

What have I told you about borrowing Megs Broom!! :eek:

Only jokeing Meg!!

Al

[AlexS]

I thought I was the only neanderthal who didn't have a mobile phone. Don't need one, don't want one, got better things to waste my money on.

When mobiles first came out, I hired a brick to check out reception for some field instruments that we had installed. There I was, sitting in the middle of the Hay Plain when the thing rang. I answered it and a voice said "Is that the Wagga stripper?" Explained that I would be if the price was right, but he probably wouldn't be happy.

The guy we hired it from said that it had been hired out previously, and when it cam back, they were getting about 20 calls a day for the stripper.

Guess I took up the wrong career!

[echnidna]

Guess I took up the wrong career!

Go where yer heart takes yer baby.

[Caliban]

Are you sure it was a phone? Might have been part of the strippers act! Did it vibrate or just ring? Hope you washed your hands after you returned it!

[graemet]

Fellas, I have an old 2nd hand phone that was unwanted by a family member who just HAD TO HAVE the latest, stuck a prepaid SIM card in it and occasionally turn it on when I really need the thing. A friend who works for Telstra finding stolen phones told me I could leave it lying in the middle of the footpath and no one would even stop to pick it up.
Graeme