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Do you have a Mobile Telephone? Is it 1995? You must have one by now…. They are all the rage! Everyone who is anyone has one! You should get one… I’ll call you when you get one. They are the FUTURE!
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Phone
Who ya gonna call?
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Nokia Makes Phones I Like
I’ve got a Nokia 7610. I like it. I use Cingular, and so far, I don’t hate them.
My phone runs the Symbian OS. It’s a Series 60 device. There are a whole lot of applications I can install on it. A whole bunch of applications.
I’ve installed a bunch of applications on my Nokia phone. I still manage to make and receive calls just fine, and I’m 99% sure I’ve never disrupted the Cingular network in any noticeable way. If an application I’ve installed misbehaves I usually just delete it. There is at least one app I use that doesn’t quit, and I use another utility to force it to quit. (Hmmm, my Mac does something similar with applications that get stuck.) There is one game I installed that froze my phone so bad, I had to remove the battery to reset it, Luckily, removing the battery was very easy, and I don’t use that application anymore. Besides those two bad app(les) they other two dozen applications I’ve installed work just fine.
Just fine…. Just like almost all the other phones out there that people have installed applications on.
I didn’t just randomly pick this phone, I got a Nokia phone so I could take photos, shoot video, record audio, and transfer the things I created to my computer under my control. I can create my own ringtones at no cost. I can sync the calendar with my desktop calendar (though I do need iCal in the loop to make it happen.) I can sync my contacts with my desktop contacts. Damn, it’s pretty good. Things work. I like my phone and how it works.
Nokia is a big believer in open source. I like open source. I like to use my phone (which is really a mobile computer) for all sorts of things Nokia and Cingular probably don’t care about. Have you seen the Nokia 770 or N800? Those are cool devices, very open to new applications and new ideas. All of the Nseries devices look interesting.
Remember, we still have choices, and we vote for those choices with our dollars and our words.
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TrumpTone?
I found this to be disturbing…. I found a major error as well… From CNN: Hold the phone: Trump on your cell (via ringtonia):
“When Donald Trump’s voice is coming out of your cell phone, everyone around you will know you mean business,” Trump said in a statement to the paper.
I’m pretty sure what that should say is:
“When Donald Trump’s voice is coming out of your cell phone, everyone around you will know that you are a complete jackass doofus loser,” everyone said.
Doesn’t the second version sound better? I thought so…
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More New Phones
We got new phones for the house last year, since we started using caller id, and I picked up a dual-handset (two phones, one home base, one recharging station) from Uniden fairly cheap. One still works, but a few months back we noticed that one of the phones seemed to not be transmitting sound when you talked, so people would call, we could hear them, and the could not hear us, they’d get frustrated and hang up. (It was actually sort of amusing… “Hello? Hello? Ok, I’m hanging up now!”)
I eventually opened up the broken one and found the microphone had come loose, and since it did not seem like a fun soldering job, it was time for new phones. (I don’t want to knock Uniden, as the phones did take a good deal of abuse in the form of falling, dropping, etc. and our old Uniden phone is like 10 years old and it still works ok.)
Nonetheless, I had heard good things about Panasonic phones, and picked up the aptly named Panasonic KX-TG2344B. Again a dual-handset model, but this time, it’s got neat features like intercom between the handsets and the base station, speakerphone, (easy to use) phonebook, and I’m sure other stuff…
Let’s hope these last a while…