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Horace posted:Oh, I love these. I'd forgotten all about them until a couple of months ago when I found some magazines from the early 00s. Here's an ad picked at random: I would scan these, use a bitmap editor and import them using a regular nokia data cable. I remember spending a lot of time getting various programs working and uploading those logos, but in the end, probably changed the logo twice ever. It's hilarious to even contemplate spending money on 28x32 monochrome BMPs, isn't it?
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Let's not think about that too hard, we all spent $5 on 125x125 JPGs/PNGs/GIFs.
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Squish posted:I would scan these, use a bitmap editor and import them using a regular nokia data cable. I remember spending a lot of time getting various programs working and uploading those logos, but in the end, probably changed the logo twice ever. That just reminds me of something I used to do in Mario Paint - I'd take a magnifying glass to issues of Nintendo Power, and pixel-by-pixel recreate sprites in it so I could use them in my "art". I think I had the whole FF4 cast done at one point.
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Jul 31, 2015 17:20
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My most shameful purchase ever was a $4.99 ringtone of Song 2 by Blur. A MIDI version of Song 2 by Blur 
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Jul 31, 2015 18:31
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You could have spent that money on a lovely knockoff usb cable and put all the midis you wanted on instead! I think I had Doom e1m1 as my ringtone for all of 10 minutes before I realised I was a tool and put my phone on vibrate only. I don't even know what my ringtone is now as I havent used anything other than silent for the last 10 years.
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Jul 31, 2015 19:38
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Mine's actually still the Mother 3 thing 
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Jul 31, 2015 19:40
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robodex posted:My most shameful purchase ever was a $4.99 ringtone of Song 2 by Blur. Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. I bought a fold-up keyboard for my Handspring Visor back in the day.  
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Jul 31, 2015 19:55
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My Lovely Horse posted:Mine's actually still the Mother 3 thing It's a good ringtone. That or I Will Give You My All
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Jul 31, 2015 19:57
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. Me too, and a wifi card.
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Jul 31, 2015 20:22
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So you want a smart phone, but you're old and can't give up your flip phone. Well... 
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Mister Kingdom posted:So you want a smart phone, but you're old and can't give up your flip phone. I want this very much even though i have a great phone and it's almost certainly dumb and bad
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Jul 31, 2015 22:56
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Mister Kingdom posted:So you want a smart phone, but you're old and can't give up your flip phone. $170? I'd buy it so long as it could manage 2 days battery life. Of course I'd still install the Awful app and burn through the battery on the shitter so it probably wouldn't matter...
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Jul 31, 2015 23:00
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Mister Kingdom posted:So you want a smart phone, but you're old and can't give up your flip phone. Oh man. As someone who is still hasn't upgraded to a smart phone yet this is extremely tempting. Unfortunately two reasons I do want to eventually move onto something more modern are 1. I will break that hinge at some point, it has happened to every phone I've owned and it's always shocking and devastating when it happens 2. I just want to use my phone in public without people coming over being like "DUUUDE FLIP PHONE LOLOL THEY STILL MAKE THOSE?!?!" I'm really not trying to make a political statement I just hate change  I will seriously be considering this though, thanks for enabling me
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Jul 31, 2015 23:30
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. I had a keyboard for my Palm IIIc, that poo poo was awesome! Then I got a keyboard for my Tungsten E, but the ports changed and you could only get a lovely flimsy IR keyboard that lagged or disconnected constantly or a Bluetooth one that cost half as much as the device itself.
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Manuel Calavera posted:It's a good ringtone. That or I Will Give You My All I'm using Ministry's "New World Order". I don't have to worry about feeling the vibrate when the phone is in my coat pocket, and I sure as hell don't have to worry about not hearing my ringtone for the first few seconds.
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ddddddffdfddddfddf posted:I want this very much even though i have a great phone and it's almost certainly dumb and bad Oh I would love that.
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sweeperbravo posted:Oh man. As someone who is still hasn't upgraded to a smart phone yet this is extremely tempting. Unfortunately two reasons I do want to eventually move onto something more modern are After you own a smartphone for a few months you'll quickly forget why you were so opposed to getting on in the first place.
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Jmcrofts posted:After you own a smartphone for a few months you'll quickly forget why you were so opposed to getting on in the first place. Or a few days, in the case of both of my parents.
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Wanamingo posted:Or a few days, in the case of both of my parents. My mom is still a holdout on getting a smart phone stating "why do I need to be always connects, you and your brother have a smart phone if I need something" even though we are both no longer around. Recently I got a Galaxy Note 4, and have been working at convincing her to get one since it wouldn't be much of a change from her Kindle Fire. Currently she has the Motorola Rush 2.
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Jmcrofts posted:After you own a smartphone for a few months you'll quickly forget why you were so opposed to getting on in the first place. "Heh, why would I ever need a smart phone? My Nokia is great, I can text super fast on it, it fits right in my front pocket and the battery lasts for days with typical use. I bet I'd never use the internet features anyway.  " -Cobalt shortly before being given a Galaxy S2 to replace her 6650I still hate having to charge the goddamn thing every day, though.
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Jmcrofts posted:After you own a smartphone for a few months you'll quickly forget why you were so opposed to getting on in the first place. I know. I mean it was the same thing when I went from no phone to my first cell phone, or even my first flip phone to my second, you adapt after a while. I'm mostly sad about losing my ability to text without having to look at the screen/without having a million autocorrect misunderstandings. Love being able to walk around watching where I'm going while effectively touch typing. Never seen anybody be able to do that on a touch screen, no matter how long they've had the thing for, but maybe it's possible to do it and people just like looking at their phone while they text. I've had the same model phone since 2009. There's kids as old as my phone who have smart phones
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sweeperbravo posted:I know. I mean it was the same thing when I went from no phone to my first cell phone, or even my first flip phone to my second, you adapt after a while. I'm mostly sad about losing my ability to text without having to look at the screen/without having a million autocorrect misunderstandings. Love being able to walk around watching where I'm going while effectively touch typing. Never seen anybody be able to do that on a touch screen, no matter how long they've had the thing for, but maybe it's possible to do it and people just like looking at their phone while they text. I can't shake the feeling that these negatives are somewhat outweighed by the positives in this situation
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Aug 1, 2015 02:21
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You can use voice recognition for texting on a smartphone if you don't want to look at the screen.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. I still use mine with my Prism
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Humboldt Squid posted:You can use voice recognition for texting on a smartphone if you don't want to look at the screen. You can always get a Blackberry Passport
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Aug 1, 2015 05:21
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I had a type-it-in ringtone of the pager alert from GTA 3, that was the poo poo
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Aug 1, 2015 06:18
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I had a midi ringtone of slayers raining blood, and it was the best thing ever. The vibration motor even replicated the double bass drums. To this day I wish I still had that tone on my iPhone. Nothing will ever come close to being as awesome, especially when some redneck would recognize it while standing in line at the local head shop.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. It wasn't just you. And I had a modem and a special cable to jack it into the 14.4 cell modem in my old Sprint phone. And there were more Visor goodies on hand too...
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Humboldt Squid posted:You can use voice recognition for texting on a smartphone if you don't want to look at the screen. When it decides to work. Say long message. Phone responds "I'm sorry I can't take any requests right now, please try again later." Much help you are Siri. Or the voice recognition software on your smartphone in general doesn't understand what you're saying and guesses completely wrong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc
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drgnwr1 posted:When it decides to work. Say long message. Phone responds "I'm sorry I can't take any requests right now, please try again later." Much help you are Siri. Or the voice recognition software on your smartphone in general doesn't understand what you're saying and guesses completely wrong. That's because the iPhone doesn't decode your speech. It sends your request to a data center in North Carolina and transmits the results back to your phone. I think I read iPhones will start doing all of that in-device in the next year or two, which should make it more reliable. I don't know if Google and Microsoft do it the same way, but they seem to work better than Siri.
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Samizdata posted:It wasn't just you. And I had a modem and a special cable to jack it into the 14.4 cell modem in my old Sprint phone. And there were more Visor goodies on hand too... The Dataport adapter I mentioned earlier was designed for the Palm I used another adapter to use USB 1.0 for my laptop.
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Having used the most basic of phones since the 80's I can. Honestly say smart phones suck at being phones but are okay as handheld media devices
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Krispy Kareem posted:That's because the iPhone doesn't decode your speech. It sends your request to a data center in North Carolina and transmits the results back to your phone. I think I read iPhones will start doing all of that in-device in the next year or two, which should make it more reliable. Even when speaking English, the thing mangles every single thing I ask it to do. Maybe it will get better once Cortana becomes available here, but I very much doubt it. I've seen dedicated speech recognition software that works half decently, but the licence costs are insane and it needs significant training time, and even then it will not write anything resembling grammatically correct Dutch. Also god forbid someone from the next city over tries to use it, because it won't understand a thing if the dialect is slightly different. Speech recognition is worthless and will remain worthless for at least another decade. Hell they can't even do half decent text to speech yet, never mind speech to text.
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Aug 1, 2015 16:23
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Go Classic... http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-voxbox/
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Ye Olde Nokia 33-whatevers had voice call functions. Which usually amounted to randomly calling someone else.
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robodex posted:My most shameful purchase ever was a $4.99 ringtone of Song 2 by Blur. I bought the Ein Fall für Zwei theme tune for my Nokia and that's probably the least shameful thing I've ever done 
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Google Now's voice recognition seems to work okay, not infallible but it's usually pretty close.
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Deedle posted:My Lumia is just as poo poo at speech recognition as any other phone. Voice recognition actually works really well if your accent resembles the training data used to program the voice recognition. So basically, if you're american or can fake it to sound sort of like an american.
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