"It's time for a phone to save us from our phones"
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I was just playing with the wife's christmas present (a nice little MP3 Player from a reasonable brand) it took me about 5 minutes to realise how to switch it on.. Not content with having one power switch, they decided to design in a second one as well.. 1) If the first one was "off" you had to switch this one on before using the next one to turn the device "on" 2) If the first one was "on" you could hold down the 2nd one for a few seconds to turn the device "on" You can apparently turn the device "off" using either of the buttons, but depending on which one you use, its a different procedure to turn it on again Why????! Arrghhhh!!!
Argyle4Ever wrote:
- If the first one was "off" you had to switch this one on before using the next one to turn the device "on" 2) If the first one was "on" you could hold down the 2nd one for a few seconds to turn the device "on"
Are you describing the phone or your wife? ;) I'll go away now, before the CP cops after me Marc
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
I was ROTFL at the part of the ad where the guy drops his phone into a urinal and then bends down to try and pick it up while the urinal is flushing. I take that to mean the Windows phone will be surgically implanted into our hands and thus takes care of dropping into the urinal problem. :)
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
It's supposed to make it quick & easy to do the things you want to do with your phone so you spend less time staring and poking at your phone.
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
It will be so bad we'll all go back to wired devices.
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It's supposed to make it quick & easy to do the things you want to do with your phone so you spend less time staring and poking at your phone.
Marc A. Brown wrote:
It's supposed to make it quick & easy to do the things you want to do with your phone so you spend less time staring and poking at your phone.
Yeah, I have to admit I didn't get this at first, but it seems obvious now. Which is a little bit of a disappointment. I was perhaps reading too much into the ads. I was thinking more along the lines about how mobile devices have possibly made us more isolated from each other. Not because they're difficult to use but because we're too busy staying connected to our own worlds till we're not paying attention to the one around us. I don't know if that's true; it just seemed to be what was implied by the ad. And somehow the new Windows phone is going to save us from this.
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
It won't be needed. Pretty soon the only way to ensure that you can continue to use your 3G phone in the future will be to not use it. Bandwidth is running out fast and what with all the iWhatevers, Androids etc..... and their bandwidth hungry apps, the problem is escalating.
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
I saw that and wondered the same thing. Is it going to be so revolutionary that we'll never need and ordinary phone again? I'm thinking just a bunch of hype?
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Argyle4Ever wrote:
- If the first one was "off" you had to switch this one on before using the next one to turn the device "on" 2) If the first one was "on" you could hold down the 2nd one for a few seconds to turn the device "on"
Are you describing the phone or your wife? ;) I'll go away now, before the CP cops after me Marc
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It won't be needed. Pretty soon the only way to ensure that you can continue to use your 3G phone in the future will be to not use it. Bandwidth is running out fast and what with all the iWhatevers, Androids etc..... and their bandwidth hungry apps, the problem is escalating.
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Yeah, just like web pages kazaa/etc bittorrent youtube netflix is going to destroy wired internet by overloading the network. :rolleyes:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
At least with wired, they (so far at least) have found ways to increase bandwidth fairly regularly. Wireless seems to be stuck on 3G and has been for some time with only trials of other techs popping up periodically, only to disappear into the ether from whence they came. If the Mobile ISPs have a trick or two up their sleeves it's well past time for them to roll them out. In my area at least. I gave up my mobile dongle, which had worked excellently until the start of this year, because it could not even get a continuous 2G strength signal, never mind a 3G one.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
I pretty much do that with the one I've got, so I don't need to up/downgrade.
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At least with wired, they (so far at least) have found ways to increase bandwidth fairly regularly. Wireless seems to be stuck on 3G and has been for some time with only trials of other techs popping up periodically, only to disappear into the ether from whence they came. If the Mobile ISPs have a trick or two up their sleeves it's well past time for them to roll them out. In my area at least. I gave up my mobile dongle, which had worked excellently until the start of this year, because it could not even get a continuous 2G strength signal, never mind a 3G one.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Sprint's been offering Wimax for a few months now, and Verizon will have LTE phones available Real Soon Now(tm). ATT's supposed to begin offering LET sometime next year, at the risk of being overly cynical I suspect they agreed to an iDelay in turn for an iExtention of the iExclusive iContract in turn for making sure that i4g iPhone is the iFirst iLTE iDevice on the iNetwork. :rolleyes:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Maybe a repost... "It's time for a phone to save us from our phones" That's the new slogan for the Windows phone. The ads show people so absorbed into using their phones that they're oblivious to their surroundings. But somehow the new Windows phone will save us from this predicament. It's an intriguing ad in that it makes you wonder how the Windows phone can accomplish this feat. It's so good that don't have to use it?? Or use it very often? Or maybe so good that you can use it without slipping into some self-absorbed trance, maybe? It definitely made me curious, which I guess is the point of the ad. :)
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