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exotics4me (0)
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I've never been one for having the newest phone, but my wife used to work for one of the big three carriers and even though she no longer is working there they do allow former employees to stay on a discounted plan. They email me every two years to tell me I'm able to upgrade to a new phone model and I've used it the last few times. I tried and tried to avoid the iPhone, but finally got one when the 5 came out. I'm now using a standard not (S) iPhone 6. I doubt I'll upgrade it. I've gotten used to it and it works well. My family got me into the iPhone since they all use them and I got tired of getting texts that said, "Did you get my text (imessage)? I can't see if you read it or not". The 6 has impressed me. I like the size (4.7 not plus). I can still use it with one hand and everyone I text now knows if I've read their texts or not.
I'll probably never come all the way around to phone technology. I always ask them, "You do realize you can call me and ask me the question instead of waiting for me to read the text and reply?"
So I picked other since I don't pay for the upgrade. If I had to pay then no. I would probably still be trying to use my Kyocera Soho flip-phone from over a decade ago lol.
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05-31-16 12:21am
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pat362 (0)
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I'm too conservative by nature to crave the newest piece of tech when I have something that still works fine. Now if I made significantly more money than maybe I might have a different opinion but I doubt it. I would probably buy the best and most expensive piece of tech at that time and stick with it for a long time.
I don't own a cellphone and it's not really on my wish list for this year. In large part because I still have a land line for people who want to reach me and I'm not a huge fan of being disturbed when I'm out.
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05-31-16 03:15pm
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pat362 (0)
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REPLY TO #1 - exotics4me :
I don't know if it's because of my age or that I find the concept of texting over calling to be somewhat dumb but why text someone when calling and talking takes significantly less time and you get the bonus of actually interacting with another human being. One I assume you have some kind of relationship since they are texting you.
I heard on the news this morning that they estimate that there are still about 46 millions slaves in the world. That is an unbelievably huge number of people living under the yoke of other people and that is tragic but how many millions (dare I say billions) of people are slaves to that tiny piece of technology that prevents them from going anywhere without it or turning it off at night to get a nice sleep or take a piss or shit?
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05-31-16 03:25pm
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Drooler (Disabled)
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I'd only need to do that (get the latest) in order to "impress" people whom I would hope were as shallow and materialistic as I would be. Sure, the new device might have new features, but it's rare that they're "must have" in a true sense.
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05-31-16 05:10pm
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exotics4me (0)
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REPLY TO #3 - pat362 :
Hey Pat, good to hear from you.
I think calling is much better. We don't have too much trouble with the zombie texting. There can be as many as seven people living in our house. We don't allow texting (unless emergency) in any of our rooms except bedrooms. My 78 year old uncle came to visit a few months ago and my two nephews sat there texting the whole time. If not for my wife, their cellphones would have been destroyed.
It's hard to believe, but there really are some good uses for cellphones. I even believe texting was originally intended to be used in work environments that made calling/talking/hearing too hard (Construction comes to mind). As those first cellphones with texting ability were always the rugged, hard body, good grip phones.
I use texting in a side project I work on. Since I gave up on Psychology (probably more like on people lol), I fell back on my past engineering experience. We live in an urban city, but are right beside the Appalachian Mountains. Along with two other engineers, we have developed electronically-controlled harnesses for bridges. The bridges in the Appalachians are often 50+ years old, terrible erosion if over a creek, lake or even worse the Nolichucky River. These bridges are used by farmers, fresh produce trucks and the random lost trucker. The local cities/counties won't fund the repair or replacement of these bridges. Once we have a harness in place all we have to do is go to the bridge, prior to an expected rain and measure the erosion, foundation shifting, we then text the measurements back to our office. It makes the necessary changes in real-time, by tightening, loosening, tilting, the harness. Calling would be just as good, but there's no phone reception back in the mountains. However, the iPhone can send texts as iMessages to any other iPhone or i product (Pod, Pad, Mac), these get delivered about 95% of the time even with no reception. That's what people should be using them for.
But mine are usually my two nephews. Goes like this.
Them: Need ride
Me: Just call me
If I haven't replied or read their text after 5 minutes I get this one.
Them: u busy?
It's annoying.
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06-02-16 10:20pm
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pat362 (0)
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REPLY TO #5 - exotics4me :
I can see where texting can be vastly preferable to calling and your example of loud noises that make talking and hearing difficult is probably one of the best. Another can be where you want to describe the file you are attaching like a photo, video or any other type of file.
What I find both frightening a quite sad is when a bunch of teenagers are all sitting together and not a single one of them is talking because they are all texting on their mobile device. There are now going to be countless generations of human being that are incapable of having a normal face to face conversation because they simply don't know how. Good luck to them when they go for a job interview.
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06-05-16 09:00am
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Homegirl (Disabled)
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They are too expensive. Who needs the newest?
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05-13-20 09:41am
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