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had 50% better signal reception (Score:4, Informative)
Re:50% dumber. (Score:3, Informative)
Mod parent up.
For what, being a curmudgeon? If you don't want a smart phone, don't get one. Plenty of "just phones" out there. http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/cell-phone [verizonwireless.com]
Okay, so the lowest end phone *also* has a camera. Quelle horreur! Dopes like this AC are the ones who wailed on me a few years ago for mentioning I liked my Kindle. "But I love *real* books! Those things are shit!"
50% less intrusive in normal social situations (Score:2, Informative)
And honestly, I wish it was everyone else's cell phone that had this feature, rather than mine.
You should not be taking a social phone call while eating dinner with friends. I don't want to hear how your grandmother has really bad hemorrhoids while I'm riding the bus. And I damn well don't want to be blinded in the theatre because you're sitting in front of me playing Candy Crush Saga during a horror movie.
Full disclosure - I don't have a cell phone.
Endless spam? (Score:5, Informative)
How many marketing gimmicks do you respond to? I get a spam text maybe 30 to 60 days apart. I'm always surprised when I get one, they are that infrequent. And, of course, I NEVER respond to the damned things. If you are inundated with spam, you might reconsider your use of the phone. Do Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all have your phone number? DUHHH!
Re:open and fair (Score:3, Informative)
You might be interested in the fairphone [fairphone.com].
Re:Endless spam? (Score:4, Informative)
How many marketing gimmicks do you respond to? I get a spam text maybe 30 to 60 days apart. I'm always surprised when I get one, they are that infrequent. And, of course, I NEVER respond to the damned things. If you are inundated with spam, you might reconsider your use of the phone. Do Google, Yahoo, and Facebook all have your phone number? DUHHH!
Depends where he is from. In some countries (eg. India) all you need is to have a local phone SIM and the networks themselves will send SMS spam several times a day.
Re:50% dumber. (Score:4, Informative)
That's every phone, if all you do is make phone calls.
That's not true. My phone reboots occasionally when trying to make or receive phone calls. It has never rebooted doing any of the other ancillary or unnecessary things, but the one thing that a phone should do unfailingly, it fails at about one time in ten.