Ulukai on 7/11/2009 at 14:57
For example Queue, last month, I was up at the crack of dawn and driving to work down a country lane which gets little traffic. Upon rounding a bend, I found a Renault Clio in the middle of the road on its roof with a girl inside, bleeding profusely and screaming at the top of her lungs.
She was pretty glad I had a phone. So was I.
The nearest house was about half a mile away, but I'm glad I was able to call an ambulance immediately.
henke on 7/11/2009 at 15:50
Wow, scary story Ulu.
Quote Posted by Queue
You can make
necessary phone calls on your land-line
Don't you find the whole business of having to memorise and keep track of people's numbers bothersome though? And what if you have to write something down right away and you don't have pen and paper? There are plenty of stupid modern inventions to hate on but something as usefull as cellphones? It's as ridiculous as raging against washingmachines or indoor plumbing. Queue, when you're ready to join the 21st century, you're welcome, but until then I'd advise you to keep quiet about your no-cellphone-lifestyle. It doesn't make you look like a brave soul who goes his own way, rather just a wierdo stuck in the past.
You
do have indoor plumbing, right?
Shug on 7/11/2009 at 16:39
what's up with these people that just HAVE to have personal computers and the internet
in my day that shit was a hanging offence
Enchantermon on 7/11/2009 at 16:58
Another example of the use of cell phones: I'm renting a room in a beach house in Virginia while I'm in school. I have free reign over the use of appliances and such, including the telephone. However, the guy I'm renting from (who lives in the house) only has basic phone service, i.e., no long distance. My parents, along with most anyone who would ever call me or whom I would ever want to call, live in North Carolina. I can't use his phone to call them, thus incurring long distance fees, and I can't give anyone his number to call me. My cell phone solves that problem. I can call anyone I want and not worry about long distance charges (unless I call outside of the country, which I don't).
That said, I don't get the attraction of all of the bells and whistles either. My phone can call, take notes, and has a calender and alarm. And calculator (which I almost never use). That's all I use on it. I don't text (the plan with texting was too expensive, anyway), and I have an iPod nano as my mp3 player, reducing pocket bulge. I don't really need Google Maps, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, TTLG, etc, etc. on my phone. But being able to make calls whenever I need to is quite convenient, especially in a large city where everyone trusts everyone else as far as they can throw them.
But of course, it's not a necessity. If you can get along without a cell phone, more power to you. I got along without one for quite a while.
Quote Posted by thefonz
2) Use a replacement phone and purchase a new mp3 player (ipod touch?)
I'd suggest this option, but there's no reason to buy an iPod Touch if all you're going to do is listen to music. I have an iPod nano, and while it can do a few other things (videos, games), I never use those functions. If you go Apple, I would suggest a nano since it's small and uses flash memory as opposed to a hard drive. I thought about getting a Classic for more storage space, but I'd listen to it in the car a lot, and I'd be afraid of the bumps knocking the read/write head into the disk (assuming it works like a traditional hard drive, which is what I've been told).
If you don't want to buy an Apple product, there are plenty of others out there. Hit up Google.
As an aside, the only thing I don't like about iTunes is that it won't let you copy music from your iPod to your computer unless you bought the music from the iTunes store. Other than that, it's a handy tool for making playlists and adding album art and media tags.
Shug on 7/11/2009 at 17:07
no, FUCK your "gotta have" mentality
Turtle on 7/11/2009 at 17:10
I thought this thread was about RBJs new droid.
Disappointment ITT.
37637598 on 7/11/2009 at 17:25
Be patient, find a used piece of shit phone to activate in the meantime, and order the iPhone in January.
SubJeff on 7/11/2009 at 18:00
Why use iTunes when you can use MediaMonkey or one of the others? With your iPod, yes.
There is nothing the iPhone does, that I need, that is exclusive to the iPhone. Everything it does that I want other phones do. I can't see the point of it really, unless it just fits what you need. Lots of people seem to have it needlessly, not using it to its full potential.
Also - RBJ has a Droid or a droid?
Enchantermon on 7/11/2009 at 18:24
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Why use iTunes when you can use MediaMonkey or one of the others? With your iPod, yes.
Because iTunes works just fine. As I said, the only functionality I'd want that it doesn't have is copying music back onto my computer, and I already have a small program to do that. Plus, iTunes newsletter almost always has at least one free song offer in it, which has helped me discover some great stuff like Kate Earl.
I also didn't know any other iPod management programs existed, but that's beside the point.
Renzatic on 7/11/2009 at 18:29
Quote Posted by SE
I can't see the point of it really, unless it just fits what you need
I can, considering I'm speaking from the position of someone who is currently using Blackberry's rather sad attempt at the iPhone. My snazzy smartphone life is plagued with the OS crashing when I go to answer the phone via touchscreen, having to pop the battery out to reset apps that refuse to shut down and drain battery life even when I power down the phone, that has a flaky at best internet connection...oh I could go on. At least with an iPhone, I know the thing will work 99% of the time.
Course, if I had a chance to do it all over again, I'd avoid the smartphones altogether and get a netbook.
