Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

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  1. susanofstohelit

    I was at coffee with a friend the other night, and she was surprised when I said her phone probably had a calculator. She said all she wants from it is a phone – she’d never looked at all the features before.

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    • neilh

      Thats true, but the calculators they include are still considerably more difficult to use than a standalone unit. They’re not a replacement if you’re a heavy user but for most of us they do the job.

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      • susanofstohelit

        yeah, they’re not useful for lots of use (keys are just too small) but for little things, like trying to figure out a math problem too big for in the head while at a coffee shop, they have their moments.

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  2. mobbsy

    “I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.”
    — Bjarne Stroustrup

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  3. godgirl

    i have no idea how to get my pictures off my phone or use the browser!

    pete wont set it up for me as i complained that he was “messing with it” when he first tried.

    :o(

    but it’s tri-band.

    :o)

    oh and i use the alarm clock and calculator sometimes.

    :o)

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  4. purple_peril

    I use mine to make and receive calls, send and receive text messages, store people’s numbers and as an alarm clock when travelling. Oh, and it has an IR port thingy that means I can upload contacts between phone and laptop, or use it as a dial up connection if I’m desperate.

    It also has:
    games, which don’t interest me
    picture messaging, I can’t imagine why I would want to do that
    WAP services, I don’t know specifically what they are and I suspect they are expensive.

    So far I haven’t felt an urgent need to email someone from my phone rather than texting them.

    And the keys are really stupid shapes and the numbers have worn off them, which is stupid, annoying and useless no matter how cool it looks.

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  5. incy

    I like to think of myself as vaguely tech knowledgabel. However I have difficulty finding a phone that meets only the requirements I have. I only want the balsted things to make and receive calls and sms. I have a camera fo phots a diary for umm diary things, an iriver for my mp3s and son. All fo which are much better at their task then a phone. Apparently I must be sad as far as phone shops go,

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    • neilh

      That makes you an imperfect consumer too, they don’t know how to deal with people like us.

      I wonder whether anyone at Nokia has cottoned on to the idea of rehashing the old 2110 firmware into a new, smaller physical package?

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  8. neilh

    Nokia firmware? Sounds unlikely (screen size is wrong for both S40 and S60, and I’m not sure they’d run a Nokia OS anyway).

    S60 limits only by the amount of (flash) memory you have for your scheduler, though the ‘alarm clock’ only has one alarm. So I’m not sure what Moto are on…

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  9. neilh

    I started writing an LJ client, but thats rotted rather while I was away and I’ve not had a chance to pick it up again yet.

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    • vcubed

      Yeah, remember you saying something like this when u were here. Anyway, wish you luck with finishing it:-)
      And I picked up a mobile phone recently. It displays the weather on the main (idle) screen. Probably need it to know when I’m heading out from office since never seem to know what’s going on outside when inside:-)

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      • neilh

        I’m still using 7610, since I can’t find any sensible upgrade path except 6630 but thats not available on my network yet :(

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