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Luc1d
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Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod
#16660286 - 08/07/12 12:33 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I got a Nokia Lumia 900, windows phone 7,
The user interface and overall smoothness of this experience is blowing my fucking mind, what an unbelievable piece of technology....it was effortless to make this post from it
Anybody else smartphone owners? Share your experiences on this New Age phenomena
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SimpleFarmer
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: Luc1d]
#16660293 - 08/07/12 12:35 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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HTC EVO ... Can't wait till the i5 gets out
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phaded
Wu Li
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: SimpleFarmer]
#16660306 - 08/07/12 12:38 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I recently got the Samsung Galaxy S3. This thing is the beez kneez!
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The Ecstatic
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: phaded] 1
#16660504 - 08/07/12 01:19 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Welcome to 2006, OP.
Have you heard about facebook yet?
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VaeVictum
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: The Ecstatic] 3
#16660515 - 08/07/12 01:21 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'll probably never join the smart phone club. Why do I need an overpriced phone that does 5% of what my computer can at the cost of $30 a month for a data plan AND a contract I'm locked in to? Answer = I don't because I'm smart and realize that my phone is a phone and my computer is a computer.
People with smart phones IMO are pretty dumb in a very ironic way unless you actually use it for business reasons or don't own a computer.
VV
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SimpleFarmer
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660534 - 08/07/12 01:25 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I use my phone in place of my laptop.... And Im smert!!
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DieCommie
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum] 1
#16660542 - 08/07/12 01:27 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
VaeVictum said: I'll probably never join the smart phone club. Why do I need an overpriced phone that does 5% of what my computer can at the cost of $30 a month for a data plan AND a contract I'm locked in to? Answer = I don't because I'm smart and realize that my phone is a phone and my computer is a computer.
People with smart phones IMO are pretty dumb in a very ironic way unless you actually use it for business reasons or don't own a computer.
VV
Mine cost $30/month for phone, txt and unlimited data. And I am in no contract. It need not be expensive. If you buy it at the mall like the advertisements tell you, sure you will get ripped. But there is value out there.
I dont even think of mine as a phone. I never had a cell phone before I had a smartphone, I dont like talking on the phone. It replaces many of my electronics and has an array of functions from a remote control for my HTPC to a flashlight.
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igCorcaigh
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660556 - 08/07/12 01:30 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
VaeVictum said: I'll probably never join the smart phone club. Why do I need an overpriced phone that does 5% of what my computer can at the cost of $30 a month for a data plan AND a contract I'm locked in to? Answer = I don't because I'm smart and realize that my phone is a phone and my computer is a computer.
People with smart phones IMO are pretty dumb in a very ironic way unless you actually use it for business reasons or don't own a computer.
VV
My android phone cost €59, no contract. I use wifi when it's available and almost never the mobile data network. Plus, unlike my laptop, it fits in my pocket.
I can read the shroomery in a pub or cafe =)
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VaeVictum
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: igCorcaigh]
#16660597 - 08/07/12 01:37 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Laptop carrying bags don't exist, forgot about that.
Everyone these days has a smart phone because it's the "cool" thing to do or because "everyone else has one so I might as well". Make up your mind for yourself I say. Everyone I know with smart phones finds some excuse to have it. The saddest I ever heard was "I can play angry birds!".
It's turned the United States into a bunch of whiny babies who can't live without their phones. It's also created an immense rise in motor vehicle accidents I'm sure.
I like how Louis CK puts it.
Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy. I think the smart phone has been wasted on the biggest piece of shit generation ever. I'm right there with him.
VV
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660601 - 08/07/12 01:39 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
VaeVictum said: I'll probably never join the smart phone club. Why do I need an overpriced phone that does 5% of what my computer can at the cost of $30 a month for a data plan AND a contract I'm locked in to? Answer = I don't because I'm smart and realize that my phone is a phone and my computer is a computer.
People with smart phones IMO are pretty dumb in a very ironic way unless you actually use it for business reasons or don't own a computer.
VV
I have a computer.
And a smartphone.
I can't carry my computer with me.
I use my smartphone way more than my computer.
OMG, I AM TH3 SH33P.
PS. I also haz tablet.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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VaeVictum
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: Madtowntripper]
#16660611 - 08/07/12 01:41 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Perhaps you should consider selling your computer, should cover your cell phone bill for a year.
VV
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660617 - 08/07/12 01:42 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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But how would I write papers?
They're each useful for their own thing.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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DieCommie
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: Madtowntripper]
#16660628 - 08/07/12 01:44 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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I recently used an app called Tasker to set my phone to automatically connect with my car stereo, pull up a map and play a sequence of news podcasts that are downloaded automatically.
Before my smartphone I had to set my computer to download my podcasts. Then every morning I would connect my mp3 player to my computer and sync my podcasts. Then I have to dig though my mp3 player to find and play them.
Sure, I can live with out it. But this is just one of the many ways its has reduced annoyance in my life.
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SimpleFarmer
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: DieCommie] 1
#16660642 - 08/07/12 01:46 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Don't hate smart phones just bc you don't have one VV
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igCorcaigh
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: DieCommie]
#16660648 - 08/07/12 01:47 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ah yes, podcasts, music streaming and internet radio. So much better with headphones and smartphone.
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VaeVictum
Sativa Cyborg
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: SimpleFarmer]
#16660659 - 08/07/12 01:49 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
SimpleFarmer said: Don't hate smart phones just bc you don't have one VV
My fiance has one, I used it once to pull up a recipe while she was playing WoW. It took me 4 minutes to load.
The majority of people use their phones so they can be even bigger facebook whores. That's a fact.
VV
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igCorcaigh
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660664 - 08/07/12 01:50 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Use it for what you think is worthwhile (if anything) and forget about everyone else, would be my advice.
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SimpleFarmer
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum] 1
#16660668 - 08/07/12 01:50 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Are the phones too smart for you?
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VaeVictum
Sativa Cyborg
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: SimpleFarmer]
#16660685 - 08/07/12 01:54 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nope, download speeds are lol worthy is all. Navigating on smart phones is far more difficult as well. Plus on top of it you don't even get full web pages for 50% of things because they have a shittier mobile version of the website for you.
VV
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SimpleFarmer
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Re: Joined the Smartphone club - this thing is incredible omygod [Re: VaeVictum]
#16660693 - 08/07/12 01:55 PM (11 years, 7 months ago) |
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mines a little faster that my laptop....
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