There! Just sayin' !
Posted on 12/18/2011 4:22:25 PM PST by varmintman
Prior to 02 I'd gone for some time hoping I could die of old age without ever touching a cellphone but that clearly wasn't going to happen; I was getting into too much trouble from not being able to find pay phones which basically stopped existing around that time. I mean, superman never had to look more than 30 feet for a phone booth to change in, but he'd go crazy now.
And then, a bit less than a year ago, the company I work for insisted on me buying an Iphone and the main idea was having access to email on the road. I mean, I'd never wanted anything to do with Apple after the stunt they pulled shutting down the Atari 520ST in 85, but I ignored any misgivings I may have had and bought the thing....
The biggest problem has been the thing getting a mote of dust or lint or something in that little hole for headphones and believing it was working with headphones when it wasn't. That keeps the user from hearing the other guy unless he figures out what's going on and puts the phone on speaker. The problem can usualy be fixed by blowing PC cleaning air into the headphone hole but it can take an hour or more of doing that.
That is still preferable to taking the thing to the local Apple store for service. Their normal mode is to have you make an appointment to be seen in two or three or four days and that basically means going several days off the air.
Then there's the thing about batteries. If a battery dies on any other cell phone you buy a new battery for $20 or $30 and replace the dead one. The Iphone needs to be replaced if a battery dies and, that's right, you need to make an appointment for that and that can mean several days off the air.
I mean, who the hell would buy a car which had to be replaced whenever a battery died.....
But the kicker came yesterday morning when the thing (actually the second one after the first being replaced for a battery), not only pulled its ugly little thing of acting like it thought it was on imaginary headphones, but aside from me not hearing other people other than on speaker, nobody else could hear me.
The normal deal with ATT is to be eligible for phone upgrades every two years; in this case the situation wasn't going to go for another year or more and I simply paid the full price for a Samsung/Android phone and the best ATT could do was a trade-in program which gave me 200 for the Iphone so that the whole deal cost more like 400 than 600, but I view that as money well spent, the Samsung Galaxy appears to be a much nicer phone.
I’m a prepaid tracfone user. Its the perfect phone for someone who has no use for all the other crap they put on cell phones these days.
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HEAR HEAR
real phones have real buttons and fold in half when not in use. Those angry birds playing contraptions remind me of those silly calculator wrist watches that were popular in the 80s.
just sayin
P.S. I never use the phrase “just sayin”, but feel compelled to do so on this thread.
No, he’s just in the closet, by all accounts.
There! Just sayin' !
You have to excuse jonty30, critical thinking problems...
Is that a Don Adams reference?
All I know is that cellphones killed a whole sub-genre of country music having to do with the dilemma of using one’s last dime for the jukebox OR for the payphone to call one’s lady to tell her “sorry”, or “he’ll have to go”, or “sayonara, baby”! How many jobs did that cost in the music industry?
“And two to take him.”
Apple has no large screen offerings, so I am using a Dell Streak and will upgrade to a Samsung Note next year. I require my phone to double as a bookreader.
>> “10 million other people just love it...” <<
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Obama voters all.
I’m waitng for the fish finder app.
I don’t own a cellphone and could care less if I ever get one. I am successful without it and I value that I am not attached to an electronic leash.
Yeah, I know some people ‘can’t live without it’, to each his own, I guess.
You’re in for a rocky ride with the Sam song too.
Their phones don’t even work in a rain storm unless you keep it in a ziplock bag.
if you buy an iPhone from AT&T (or the carrier) instead of direct from Apple, you kinda deserve the service you get.
I have had 2 iphones replace (outside of warranty) FOR FREE. Same day, walk in.
As I told my nephew, if you show up and act like a !@@**@* you will get treated like an *@&#&#. Attitude DOES matter.
I had a Droid for 2 years and my iPhone 4S does everything 10x faster and much better than the Droid......
And my case has soft rubber flaps to protect both the headphone jack and the camera lense......
VERY happy with it.....
And most of them voted for Obama. Just sayin’...
Then, I wouldn't be making this comment...
It should be half the price then it currently is.
It's than...."half the price than it is currently. (don't worry, a lot of Obama voters don't understand correct grammar either...Just sayin')
I use PCs.
I haven’t had active virus software on any computer since 2003.
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