21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
1:54 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
See, I'm somewhat atypical there... I want a phone that's good at making phone
You are not alone there. I use a cellphone for making voice calls only.
OK, I may have sent the odd SMS message, but I don't _need_ that
facility. I certainly don't need a colour display, or internet access, or
a camera (all that I have seen make an instamatic's pictures look good!),
and so on.
packs in
after a few years. I'll admit that they may well go out and
buy a new one two-four years down the road, but if they keep it, it
has to keep on working. (I'll admit that this generally does not seem
to apply to mobile phones - no idea why not).
The matter with cell phones is that there is always innovation. A TV
set is a TV set, there are no news on that. Same to a stereo, what else
would you want into a stereo? calls. I don't want it to do a million other
things, most of which I won't
need *ever*, let alone occasionally. I'd rather that all the time and money
that had gone into developing that phone had been spent on making it as easy
The phrase 'Jakc of all trades and master of none' springs to mind.
-tony