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w p h wrote:

I hate "Candy Bar" phones.
Flip phones make so much more sense, the screen is protected, and it folds up to more easily fit in your pocket.

I would tend to agree. The screen stays nice and keylock is a non issue. Moreover, hanging-up and answering the phone feels a lot better.

That said, we all know Apple doesn't give a damn about preventing screen scratches. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the same crappy polycarbonate they've been using on the iPod since day one.

A bar form might also accommodate an iPod-like interface better

My internal antenna Nokia tends to get a decent signal so log as I'm not in any buildings where they totally overdid the Faraday effect. Even then it usually picks of some sort of crappy signal.

ReallyReallyLong LongName wrote:

I used the RAZR for about a day and I hated answering it. It took more time to pull it out of my pocket and open it up than to just pull it out of my pocket and press talk.

It's really very easy. I don't have any issues at all. Also it auto answers as soon as you flip the phone open - no need to press talk.

ReallyReallyLong LongName wrote:

Sometimes I couldn't get the thing open because it was so thin and fragile. It really felt like it was going to break in half if I opened it too hard.

Mine feels rock sollid.

Are you sure you had a RAZR?

Last edited by wellfleation (2006-09-07 11:04 am)

I have a Samsung flip, and it's rock-solid. I've had it for like 3 years now, and no problems. I'm confident I could drop it off a 3 story building on to grass, and it wouldn't break.

Phydeaux wrote:

... I can't even see the benefit in Apple making it without being a hueg liek xbox flop.

xbox flopped??????  I know it didn't make huge profits (and by huge I mean any) but I don't think I would call it a flop...I believe the Xbox acheived around a 30% marketshare in a market that was completely dominated by Sony. 

The Xbox paved the way for the 360 which will make profits for MSFT.

dammit! i just bought a Nokia N91!

damn you Apple and your innovative ways!

Blandford Fly wrote:

dammit! i just bought a Nokia N91!

damn you Apple and your innovative ways!

You'll be fine. Even if Apple did release a phone, last thing I'd want would be the 1st gen of it.

And I just now read your second post, so that this maintains some sort of new info, I'm going to add: The 91 is a beast and is like electronic sex. Enjoy.

Last edited by Phydeaux (2006-09-07 1:08 pm)

Blandford Fly wrote:

Phydeaux wrote:

The 91 is a beast and is like electronic sex. Enjoy.

really?   i never saw that in the handbook!

Really. Set it to Silent with vibration.

For those that don't know what a N91 is.

A high end mo'fo.

Yeah, you let me know when I can touch one.

MVNOs have saturated our market within the last year and none have been runaway hits. And who Apple would probably rather be in bed with, Sprint, isn't allowing any additional MVNOs to operate on it's network at this time.

Regardless, it's still a dependency issue that Apple would want to shy away from.

I don't own a cell phone. Everyone EVERYONE I tell that to looks at me like I was missing an arm. Is it so hard to understand that I have no social life outside my computer?

Seriously though, I've never needed one. I don't go out and all my local friends are online anyway, it's easier to email and IM. But now that I'm trying to "break out of my shell" as the people at work are putting it I am getting more social. So now I need one. Everyone else in my family has one.

I just don't know what one I'd get. Seriously. There's too many. I'd rarely use it. So I wouldn't want to pay out the ass for a plan or something.

I've been looking into a prepaid phone for now. Like a TracPhone or Net10 (Which both are recommended by various people including cow-orkers.) since they'd be fairly cheap to start with. (A TracPhone costs $20 to start and I could pay $20 every 60 days and probably never use up all 60 of my minutes for the two months. I don't see myself using it too much at first.)

My problem with cell phones and it's been mentioned is the UI. They're far from intuitive. Every goddamned cell phone I've picked up is different. I don't know where to find anything on them. This is where I think Apple could succeed. If it's anything like the iPod UI it'd be terrific.

I too would want a flip though. Just because. Also, I love custom ring tones. I want my phone to play something so obscure that every time it rings at least one person in the room will say "Hey, I remember that!" I want a different tone for each person (Like I can do with Adium). I love that stuff. I've just never needed it before.

I just had to call someone and she kept cutting out. I was on a land line and she was on the cell. I hate that.