Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  Just a phone ...
... even the iPhone doesn't hold any interest for me and neither does this.
I just want a phone that's good at being a damn phone. You can keep yer bells and whistles sonny.
--
Pretty Fly for a White Guy™ |
|
fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Wandering
 ·Comcast Digital Vo..
 ·Comcast
| Your response brought to light how automakers are throwing in all kinds of crap into cars such as MP3 players, Bluetooth devices, etc.
Like you, I just want a car that is good at being a car and not a mobile entertainment center....like there isn't enough ON THE ROAD to distract you. Now you have additional crap in your car to do it!
--
The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary. |
|
Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to Matt
Whenever the Verizon Wireless guys ask me "What do you want your phone to be able to do?", I always answer "Make calls." Everything else, to me, is icing on the cake.
However, I've come to expect one more thing from my cell phone: openness. Ideally, I'd like to take an MP3 that I've made and upload it to my phone by myself to set as a ringtone. I'd also like to be able to import/export contacts and download any photos/videos that I took. My previous phone (LG VX8100) let me do that via BitPIM, but apparently Verizon locked down my new phone (VX8350) so that BitPIM can't work with it. Instead, they want me to pay them $2 each for ringtones from VCast.
Thank goodness for MyxerTones.com. |
|
Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
| reply to fatmanskinny
Amen, what every happened to a vehicle being a vehicle. I thought that the primary reason for a vehicle was to get from point A to point B as safely as possible. The MP3 players, Bluetooth devices, etc., and texting, talking and, probably, watching video's on the iPhone, GPhone, whatever, don't give me a warm fuzzy feeling when driving down the road. And yeas I only want a phone that can send and receive calls. |
|
rec9140
Provoice just DO it
join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL
| reply to Matt
said by Matt  :
... I just want a phone that's good at being a damn phone. You can keep yer bells and whistles sonny.
Amen!
I am so over the "cool phone crowd" and the smaller is better, and can't have antenna, and has to flip open, or slide, or flip up or some other drivel...
Bring back The Brick! Long live the UHC8000.
--
Lorem ipsum ei pro stet equidem labores, at enim animal expetenda nec. Ea vix argumentum dissentiunt, usu esse ridens ex. |
|
djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Jason Levine
quote:
Thank goodness for MyxerTones.com
That's Verizon's suckiness at work. I've been able to upload my own ringtones, tether to data, and download pictures from every Cingular phone I've had "out of the box". I'm in no way a fan of Cingular's network, but they're a LOT more lax about selling their handsets with all the features enabled. My old 3650 wasn't even locked to their network. |
|
djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Matt
quote:
... even the iPhone doesn't hold any interest for me and neither does this.
I use mobile internet a lot. I just like to check news on websites when I'm waiting for something or riding as a passenger in a car. I've been using Motorola phones, symbian phones, and windows-mobile phones to do this for a while now.
Just yesterday I got an "ipod touch" for my birthday. I should NEVER EVER have touched the Safari browser on that thing. Holy geeze. It really makes the browsers on my current and old phones look like a sad, crude pathetic joke. Now I want an iPhone so bad I can taste it. But they gotta get 3g on the thing. I'm not really a koolaid drinking Apple fanboi but they seem to be the first to figure out how to make a FAST, fluid, usable browser on a tiny mobile device.
I REALLY hope Google can do the same or better with their phone OS. |
|
sivran
Long Live The Suite
Premium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Matt
I barely use my cell phone as a phone. I realized what I wanted most was something with a qwerty keyboard and net access, hence my purchase of a Sidekick. It's not the best, but it is the cheapest way to accomplish what I want. It's not bad as a phone, either.
The iphone's lack of a keyboard disqualifies it completely, IMO, to say nothing of the price. |
|
Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA | reply to djrobx
Of course, just when I post about how wonderful MyxerTones is, Verizon manages to mess it up by rejecting my latest ringtone messages.  |
|
