Mobile phones & tablets thread

[Dave B]

iOS... Android... whos cares? they're all evil. It's my impression it's not the man owning the smartphone but the smartphone owning the man. You see them walking around listening to the evil device, talking to it... texting all the time... they text while driving.... facebook status... just missed a red light hihiihi.. forget about privacy... you go some place it's on the internet in a few seconds... X cheched in with Big Ben at some place... Big Ben went from being "in a relationship" to "it's complicated" or in a relation****...

and there's all this cheap internet, phone calls and loads of SMS'... if someone wants to come by I receive 4-5 calls on the matter... hey I might come by... hey just left... hey want me to buy something... hey just arrived. Sometimes I miss the days when you'd had to think a bit before making a phone call.

So instead of fighting lets unite and burn them all. grab you pitch forks and light the torches.

Two points. (1) Smartphone ownership and use is not compulsory, (2) there are also a lot of productive uses for said technology.

[Big Ben]

Two points. (1) Smartphone ownership and use is not compulsory, (2) there are also a lot of productive uses for said technology.

I agree

[airshifter]

iOS... Android... whos cares? they're all evil. It's my impression it's not the man owning the smartphone but the smartphone owning the man. You see them walking around listening to the evil device, talking to it... texting all the time... they text while driving.... facebook status... just missed a red light hihiihi.. forget about privacy... you go some place it's on the internet in a few seconds... X cheched in with Big Ben at some place... Big Ben went from being "in a relationship" to "it's complicated" or in a relation****...

and there's all this cheap internet, phone calls and loads of SMS'... if someone wants to come by I receive 4-5 calls on the matter... hey I might come by... hey just left... hey want me to buy something... hey just arrived. Sometimes I miss the days when you'd had to think a bit before making a phone call.

So instead of fighting lets unite and burn them all. grab you pitch forks and light the torches.

All good points. All of this "social networking" has resulted in sometimes useless information overload.

I got a smart phone when it was required by my job, and I always lived just fine without one. If I want to check the status of a friend, I use the "phone" feature. I don't consider liking one of their posts an actual contact of sorts.

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[ArrowsFA1]

Extraordinary to remember the time when the only phone a family had between them was plugged into a socket in the wall and went nowhere. All you could do with it was make and receive phone calls. I rarely used ours, not because I wasn't allowed to but because I didn't need to.

What were we thinking?!!

[Big Ben]

I'm 28 in 10 days so it can't be the age gap :P:

[airshifter]

I'm probably alot younger than you but I use facebook and twitter daily. I'm not one of those people who writes silly status updates and whinges about trivial things nobody is really interested in. I stay in touch with friends from all over, and usually after a meet up or a drunken night out, the pictures end up on FB and friends discuss humorous things and memories etc lol. I couldn't be without a phone that has access to social networking, as I use it as often as email and text. I think thats the way technology has gone and has made people alot more sociable. Some people think facebook and twitter stop people actually talking to people in person but I think it bridges the gap between actual socialising and has encouraged people to stay in touch and make more of an effort. For me anyway. I've also rekindled friendships with people I haven't seen for years over facebook and met up after messaging. Social networking can be a great tool if people use it properly IMO. It doesn't mean friends don't phone each other anymore, certainly not in my life.

This type of use makes sense to me... you are simply staying in touch with mostly a group of people you actually know.

What I'm speaking of is the people with 1000 "friends" most of whom they have never met, and never intend to meet. For the game players and such they often add each other to exchange items and such things, and that does make some sense at least. I just don't get the people that substitute online friends for reality.

[BleAivano]

All good points. All of this "social networking" has resulted in sometimes useless information overload.

I got a smart phone when it was required by my job, and I always lived just fine without one.
If I want to check the status of a friend, I use the "phone" feature. I don't consider liking one of their posts an actual contact of sorts.

Well calling would b very expensive if you a have a bunch of friends and particular if someone isn't living in the same country.
Also social networking like this forum gives you an opportunity to "meet" people that you otherwise would not have get to meet.

Also a smart phone is so much more then the facebook and twitter. I find it very useful, i regularly use features such as calculator, maps, direction finder,
public transportation apps, curerency converter, calendar, weather, email, messaging, mediaplayer...

[Mark]

If there were no iPhone then there would be no Android at all. Nokia would likely still reign supreme.

[ioan]

If there were no iPhone then there would be no Android at all. Nokia would likely still reign supreme.

And the proof to that is?