Fighting obsolescence..... - do you REALLY use a smart phone, and if so, how?
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Nope. No cell phone either. Hate the damn things.
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norm_fox wrote:
This is exactly why I have a basic cell phone/plan and an iPod Touch.
I'm doing exactly the same thing. Basic phone and iPod Touch. I had a couple of smartphones over the last year or two and found that I was paying $30/month for access to data that I was already paying for (through my home router) or got free at the office or other WiFi spots. It was "cool" to be able to do a Google search or something when out and away from everything or even check e-mail (which I don't get a *lot* of anyway). I quickly grew tired of paying the extra $30 and trying to make up reasons to get online when all I needed to do was go to my PC or get in range of a WiFi. I'm not a road warrior - my work doesn't require me to be "online" constantly, particularly when I'm not at one of my keyboards. The iPod has tons of stuff on it that I don't need to be online for and when I do, I just get to a WiFi for the 1 or 2 minutes I need to exchange some data. Now Verizon is talking about carrying the iPhone. I am really pleased with my iTouch and it has occurred to me to switch to an iPhone but, then again, I'll just be throwing away $30/month and gaining what? Practically nothing. As "cool" as the idea sounds - I just can't sell myself on it. I think I'll just buy another "basic" phone with a good texting keyboard on it and leave well enough alone. -Max
I recently went on holiday and while my family waited patiently to start our trip I was stuck in my office trying to upload a large file to a client. I finally gave up so we could get going, having no real idea of how I would solve the problem. I had my computer with me, but our rental house had no Internet connection of any kind. I was able to get the file from my laptop to my new Droid Incredible via USB cable. The Droid has built-in VPN so I connected to my client with just a couple of tries. Poking around in the Android Market I found a free FTP app that allowed me to send the file, and a free RDP app that let me remote control my client's server, map a network drive, move the file to the proper folder, and unzip it. All ready to go. This was an important client, so I could almost justify a year's worth of Verizon charges with just this single mission. -David