Random babblings from an underproductive mind.

The 'nearly' in the first sentence would not be enough to keep the dark fury from burning you on a cross, you know.

I have the LG Cookie. Not a smartphone, but similar. With a full touch sensitive keyboard which can be operated without the pen, if you practice.

You do not need to be online at all times. I am, but that is due to the fact that I am a writer, and I use a desktop pc for such pourposes. I always have Firefox activated in the background, so I have a way to escape the misery of writing.

*distracts Mik*

I am looking forward to the "Mik comment"

*watches as Kim dances with fruit balanced on her head while juggling meat cleavers*
What's brought this on baby? Has someone we know bought an iPhone again? It's getting pretty packed under the patio so I hope not.

Phones...what's all the fuss about? I have a decent job now and can actually afford a really nice phone...
My old brick like pre 2003 Nokia broke the other week...so now I'm using my sister's old Samsung. Piece of junk! So I asked a friend if she has an old Nokia...I said I'd pay her $10 for it...she said it's not worth anything. So I'll be using a brick again soon wooo!

My old collegue is sort of old-fashioned compared to the standards of the reporter-trade - we actually had mobile devices gallore back in the mid-nineties when I had my prime.
When he leaves his job, he leaves all mobile devices at the office. He has an ordinary telephone in his house and nothing else except for a small television set and a radio. And he is by the way a highly estimated newspaper reporter.

He told me, that one day he went to shop at the shopping center and 'a young man with a peculiar hairdo and a fancy logo on his shirt' approached him asking him, if it might be possible to see his phone. 'No,' my friend said. 'Am I supposed to walk around with my phone on me? What idiot would do that?'

The young mobile phone salesman had nothing he could say to this. I suppose his traniee course hadn't included that particular statement.

I just know that everybody and their DOG has Blackberries here now... GAH! Sheep. (although we're prolly 3 years behind on that trend but hey)

BlueBerries - not in Denmark. Why would anyone run around with an entire phone booth in their pocket?

We have Blackberry contracts at work too. Just $95 a month...well, currently I use about $40 of credit PER YEAR!

Don't you have text bundles there?

And don't fall for all the media hype, the iPhone 4 is not that great with it's antenna problems from what i have heard.

Wow i can see what your problem is with the 5200. My last Nokia was the 3310 and then i went over to Sony Ericsson, i had the T300, K700 and K800 which was the best phone i had by far. I now have a C905 which is a good phone but i am planning to get the Nokia E72 when my contract upgrades later this year.

lol, true

The antenna problems aren't hype, believe me. Apple tried putting up videos of other phones with the same problems so they wouldn't have to refund and are currently being sued for misrepresentation as a result of tampering with the phones in order to replicate the problem on them. The screen problems have been over emphasised though.

My heart belongs to Sony Ericsson - and Sony products as a whole, but let's not go there. When I got the new LG, I sort of gave my old SE to my son, because his old Nokia had died. I am seriously coinsidering to take it back, letting him have the new one instead. The SE had features, that I miss on this new touchscreen, for example the torch light - I spend much time in darkness (I know how that sounds, but it's true nevertheless): But what I miss most is the camera which was far far far better than the totally useless one on the LG Cookie.

As a writer, I sometimes need to research, and I sort of made it a habit to just snapshoot document pages, instead of getting the whole damn book from the library or bookshop or going through the complete waste of time of for example achieving permission to lend a four year old newspaper just to read one article. There's no possible way I can do this with the new phone. And getting a pocket camera just so that I can do this seems a complete waste.

So, I guess my touch screen phone adventure is coming to and end.

I've heard the roaming function on the iPhone can be quite expensive. Apperantly, if you take your iPhone to a Danish beach that incidently isn't covered by any ordinary mobile grid, it will roam to the Vodafone satelite grid, the one ships at sea use, which is really expensive. I've heard about several beachdwellers who got a really bad surprise when coming home from their summer residence.

With South African networks, You to specifically activate roaming for the place you intend to visit.

Originally posted by garlingmatthews:

... and I'm growing tired of the twelve key keyboard and low resolution Nokia 5200.

Serious question here: Would getting a desktop USB-keyboard and plugging it into your phone work? Or maybe there's some sort of adaptor, or something ... ?

Would that be the one that doesn't have USB ports? .

The Iphone doesn't have usb ports either

I stay the fuck away from all big companies that don't specialise in making phones I'd rather buy something I trust, rather than go with a big brand name

I would too. I'm even iffy on Ipods. Although, I was checking out a Mac Book today. Looked pretty nifty. If only Alienware didn't exist

Indeed. Pricey, but a man can dream.

True. Windows 7 is bullcrap. I love XP though.

I've never used a Mac. I like the simple layout of Windows XP though.

XP rocks.

I bet, but OsX seems too show offy for me. I like simple things. I don't need a dock, I need a desktop. I don't want a full screen, I want a task bar. And there's less that'll work on Mac too

It's a trade off really. Better security, less programs to use.

During the 90s when I worked with professional journalism at a monthly magazine we had Apple equipment only, including our home stations. Going from Mac to PC is quite an ordeal, but I still prefer PC. However, where PCs have changed and changed back with umpteen versions of Windows OS, Mac's still the same. Everytime I ocassionally turn on a Mac terminal I am greeted with the same, good old Mac-sound, and menus and keyboard operations are still the same. It's sort of nostalgic to me.