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#1 2008-09-30 12:41 pm
- davic3
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cell phone features
How many of your phone's features do you actually use?
My cell has a camera, text , video message, music player, internet, stop watch,and a few other features.
All I really use is the phone 
some light texting and occasionally the camera but not to much since the quality is not all that great. The manufacturers cram all of these things in there but are they really necessary?
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#3 2008-09-30 1:30 pm
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Re: cell phone features
I haven't even activated my message service.
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#4 2008-09-30 1:49 pm
- mrreet2001
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Re: cell phone features
a camera,
I use this many times a week ... anything from seeing something a friend would enjoy to a VIN of a car I want to carfax.
text
I use this (also messengers) more than I use the phone. I allows me to talk to more than one person, or send quick questions ... also considering none of my friends check their voicemail, I find texting a necessity.
video message,
I don't have this ... but I do picture message all the time ... see "a camera"
music player,
I don't use this directly ... but I do love being able to have mp3 and midi files as ringers ... from a programing point of view if you have high tech ringers you might well have a "music players"
internet,
movie times, phone numbers, addresses of businesses, heck ... I don't know how I survived before I had the net.
stop watch,
I don't know, if I have this ... it could come in handy.
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email
lost if I didn't have it.
GPS
garbage compared to my tom toms but ... none the less, I would literally be lost with out it. I have had to use it when I didn't have one of my Tom Toms.
calendar
very useful sometimes.
Come to think of it ... I would say on "average" I use my phone as a phone less then 2 hours a month.
I <3 unlimited data and messaging.
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#5 2008-09-30 2:23 pm
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Re: cell phone features
There is also how well those additional functions are integrated into the phone. The menu scheme on my older cell phone is so arcane that there are likely functions there that I have not used simply because I have never accessed them.
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#6 2008-09-30 2:39 pm
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Re: cell phone features
no music...
no camera...
no interwebs..
rings like a ( gasp) real phone
has an ON and OFF feature I use.
has a volume control on the ringer so I can turn it up while driving.
most used function.... MUTE ALL
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#8 2008-09-30 10:01 pm
- mo' ron
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Re: cell phone features
For my personal phone, it has the works, but I just use the phone and the address book.
For my work phone, I use the camera, alarm, games, and bluetooth, but not any of the network stuff because there's no data package.
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#9 2008-09-30 10:36 pm
- mmonte
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Re: cell phone features
Hardly any of them, except for the alarm clock and the bright LED light which works well as a night light.
I'll send or receive an occasional text message.
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#10 2008-10-01 7:03 am
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Re: cell phone features
I use the phone and voice mail, occasionally the camera, and that's about it. I might use it to check the time, but I usually have a watch on. I really don't see a use for all the extra crap.
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#11 2008-10-01 1:04 pm
Re: cell phone features
I use the phone and text messaging.
Occasionally the alarm clock.
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#12 2008-10-01 9:13 pm
- Macskeeball
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Re: cell phone features
I use these regularly:
-Clock
-Text messaging
-Phone
-Alarm
-Notepad
I also sent an alarm sound to it via MMS once, and yesterday I started playing the little game that came with it.
PS- Although texting and voice calls are very basic features, I use them for some powerful things. For instance, I can and do use web services such as Facebook and Google via text messaging, and get alerts severe weather and campus emergencies. I also use Jott.com to hear RSS feeds when I'm away from my computer for an extended period of time (such as my recent hospital stays)- Google news, Tech news, and my friends' Facebook statuses. In spite of the simplicity of my phone, I've beenn able to do some powerful things.
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#13 2008-10-02 8:31 am
- Nefarious
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Re: cell phone features
iPhone: Safari, Mail, calendar, alarm, phone, Airsharing, music, youtube, maps, weatherbug
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#15 2008-10-02 6:25 pm
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Re: cell phone features
Ah yes...MMS messages.
A capability us iPhone users are sorely lacking.
Grrr....
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