Thread: Cell Phones

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yeah, a 10 or 20 year generation gap makes a big difference. Today's youngsters and their parents seem to walk around with their face in their brains, it sometimes seems? Tried a smartphone for a week. It seemed too much for me!

Tom's smartphone,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Tom's smartphone,,,,,,

Fit's right into my watch-pocket!

Dude, I remember when every house with kids had a hallway phone and about 40 feet of curled extension cord. The phone got drug all over the house! We also had 'TV carts' to roll the tv about. Then the aluminum foil flags and such on the antennas.
Times have changed!

Pixel,,,, you need to go to Wal Mart & get a cheap little prepaid GPS cell phone with a $25.00 limit,,, just for emergencies. You could be headed to the grocery store,,,run into a ditch,,,damage the doors & can't get out,,,succumb to starvation in a week or two,,then get eat'n by bugs,,, all because you didn't have a cell phone.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Pixel,,,, you need to go to Wal Mart & get a cheap little prepaid GPS cell phone with a $25.00 limit,,, just for emergencies. You could be headed to the grocery store,,,run into a ditch,,,damage the doors & can't get out,,,succumb to starvation in a week or two,,then get eat'n by bugs,,, all because you didn't have a cell phone.

I always take food when I travel,I drive about 5 miles a week

What's a cellphone?

Originally Posted by nipper

What's a cellphone?

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

I always take food when I travel,I drive about 5 miles a week

I am hip. Setting the points and turning the airscrews is nice for a trip into town to the PO. As you use up the 'forever' stamps you hoarded, you will get those new-fangled 'peeley stamps' and you won't have to lick 'em. Saves that lovely flavor from the tongue!

I'm fairly young so I have a basic cell phone. Its a phone so I use it to talk and the occasional text. I don't need it for anything else. I do hate when someone will spend 20min of my time texting me when they could have just called and spent 2min. Seems like nobody wants to actually talk to anyone anymore.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I am hip. Setting the points and turning the airscrews is nice for a trip into town to the PO. As you use up the 'forever' stamps you hoarded, you will get those new-fangled 'peeley stamps' and you won't have to lick 'em. Saves that lovely flavor from the tongue!

Ha ! You have to be old to know what points are. I put Boyer ignition on my 73 Bonnie back in the day. The points used to vibrate & wear after one good run.

Originally Posted by nipper

What's a cellphone?

Basically a pain in a location that Preparation H is applied to!!

I use a cell phone extensively for work, but the moment the work day ends, which is a blurred line in construction, the phone hits the top of the dresser. When I'm with someone I am with that person. When I need to go somewhere I do a little preparation, get some directions and go there. Too many people half-heartedly do things while they are on the phone, or they aren't really listening to what the person on the other end is doing, or not totally paying attention. My wife and I went to a concert not long ago and from the balcony level looking over the dance floor it looked like a bunch of big lightning bugs blipping all over the dance floor. Either they were alone and wanted to show everyone they were doing something, they weren't interested enough in who they were with, or I don't know what. I'm not a big conspiracy theorist but I could really see the smart phone being just the cats meow to advertising firms when it came around. You used to have to sit at the desk in the hallway to talk on the phone. Then some advertiser was paid by a cord manufacturer to sell people on the idea that if they had a longer cord they could do things while they were on the phone. I call this Level 1 Disconnect. Then the home phone went to multiple locations. Now you could have one in any part of the house. Then the home phone lost its cord all together. Suddenly you're "more free". Level 2 disconnect. Then came mobile phones expensive so not everyone could get one. Now you can do some work on the road. Then the mobile phone got more affordable and small businesses could get them for their employees. More people have mobile phones means more people are talking on the phone so realistically more work is done more efficiently. Then the mobile phone gets inexpensive. Suddenly everyone can get one. Level 3 disconnect. All of the sudden there is this culture shock that we can talk to anyone who has a mobile phone at anytime so now we feel the compulsion to do so. At the grocery store. At the parts store. Walking down the street. Then they come with games, because people obviously aren't spending enough time on their phones. Level 4 Disconnect. Then you can store music on it. Then a few phones can do some very basic things on the internet, but this phone isn't really inexpensive enough for everyone. The masses are still enamored with their not so new found method of communication, and the first smart phones didn't have enough shiny things to draw them in. Then suddenly the Palm Pilot came out (maybe not the first of its kind, but I don't know). Suddenly you can have a small computer and it makes phone calls. Useful in the business world, but advertisers manage to convince people they "need" this shiny thing. But its still bulky and not so easy to just put in your pocket. Then regular mobile phones went through this phase of getting exaggeratedly small. This seemed to distract from the smart phone. Then the IPhone came out. Level 5 disconnect. It looked like your IPod. Websites embrace this new audience and now we don't need computers to chat with our friends online. (anti)Social Media goes mobile. Heck the whole internet goes mobile. Now people are stuck to their phones where ever they are. If you were told in the 1970's by a salesman that you had to buy a $400 electronic devise, carry it constantly after work and then pay $100 a month to use it you'd have told that guy to take a hike. No one would pay that kind of money for a phone, and why would you need to be on the phone so much anyway?...........