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Platystemon posted:You’re telling me it doesn’t flip or slide or spin? I thought it did, until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb_cGG1S_UE What you see is what you get. 
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Platystemon posted:You’re telling me it doesn’t flip or slide or spin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb_cGG1S_UE Edit: Beaten 
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Aug 9, 2015 17:02
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The rapid evolution of cell phones has really made it easy for movies to become extremely dated. Cellular, for example, the movie where Chris Evans plays a superhero whose power is pretty much just having a phone with a camera.
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Aug 9, 2015 17:25
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Roaming is still an issue in the UK within the EU, but thanks to EU law (assuming we don't get all stupid and leave come the referendum) that will soon be a thing of the past. You still hear 'horror' stories in the tabloids, of people using their phones in Europe and coming home to a massive phone bill because they downloaded some app or little Timmy watched too much YouTube. But personally I've always found, no matter what UK network I'm with, I have to give consent before I can use data abroad, and even then it's capped. No idea what these other fuckwits are doing. For measure I'm paying £12.90 a month for unlimited texts, 4G data and 200 mins. I also have fibre broadband at 80mb down and 20mb up for £30 a month; unfortunately I also have to pay £14 a month for landline rental which is only getting used for the broadband. Within the home I know of no-one who uses their landline phones anymore, and everytime I plug mine it the only people that ring are scammers.
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Aug 9, 2015 17:30
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I use mine, mostly because i get free evening and weekend calls, and I can actually hear it at home whereas my mobile stays on vibrate the entire time so I often can't. And the mobile doesn't get free calls at all - though I almost never use all my minutes. It's also frequently cheaper for calling commercial numbers for which mobile networks often charge. But I'm something of a throwback from that perspective.
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Aug 9, 2015 17:36
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Yeah, I'll admit I only plug my landline back in if I want to call a 0800 (free) number as mobile networks usually charge for the privilege. But that's also being looked into.
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Aug 9, 2015 17:39
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DarthBlingBling posted:Yeah, I'll admit I only plug my landline back in if I want to call a 0800 (free) number as mobile networks usually charge for the privilege. 0800 numbers became free in the UK from mobiles at the beginning of July. Though apparently some business have started advertising non 0800 numbers so they can collect charges again.
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Aug 9, 2015 19:22
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less than three posted:Everything from Nokia back then was indestructible. Is that the stainless steel one? It cost a drat fortune here in Sweden.
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Aug 9, 2015 19:34
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Slavik posted:0800 numbers became free in the UK from mobiles at the beginning of July. Though apparently some business have started advertising non 0800 numbers so they can collect charges again. That's a bit weird as they didn't use to collect any money from 0800 calls; in fact they had to pay for the service. 0845 and 0870 are the bastard ones tho, they do profit from these.
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Aug 9, 2015 20:45
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Collateral Damage posted:This is why you buy a Nexus. No branded bloatware and no wait for updates. Not all of the nexus phones are good. The Galaxy Nexus is already a candidate for this thread. That thing was a god awful slug of a phone. It had rotten battery life, poo poo reception and it was built out of the cheapest, greasiest plastic ever. I have a Nexus 6 now and its pretty good. I've since boycotted all Samsung products because of that phone.
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Groda posted:Is that the stainless steel one? It cost a drat fortune here in Sweden. Tubesock Holocaust posted:I thought it did, until I watched this: It was certainly an "interesting " phone to have. I felt the SMS managed to be quicker because it would learn your commonly used words with some usage, and there was a tiny bit of feedback for each notch you rolled the wheel, so you'd eventually get a feel for just how far to move between clicks to type quicky. But overall, it was simply a phone that went for form over function, perfect for the narssicist who wanted a mirror built into their phone. The legacy continued with the Sidekick/Hiptop from Danger, who had a key combination to blank the screen so you could use it as a mirror to check your hair/makeup. edit: Holy poo poo I paid €500 in 2006 for that. less than three has a new favorite as of 06:38 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Aug 10, 2015 06:33
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DarthBlingBling posted:That's a bit weird as they didn't use to collect any money from 0800 calls; in fact they had to pay for the service. Sorry even confused myself on that. The 0800 are now free and yes business didn't collect on those its other numbers starting 08 such as 0843 and 0844. They must declare and justify service rates or change numbers such as to 03. https://www.fairtelecoms.org.uk/uk-calling-clear-call-rates.html
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Not all of the nexus phones are good. The Galaxy Nexus is already a candidate for this thread. That thing was a god awful slug of a phone. It had rotten battery life, poo poo reception and it was built out of the cheapest, greasiest plastic ever. I have a Nexus 6 now and its pretty good. I've since boycotted all Samsung products because of that phone. That said it's starting to get a bit long in the tooth and I'll probably get myself a Nexus 6 unless a new Nexus pops up in the next month or two.
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Platystemon posted:You’re telling me it doesn’t flip or slide or spin? Yeah, looks pretty useless. All this talk of phones and data/internet made me wonder if my old nokia (e:) 6120c works. Until now I was happy with the old phone-phone 8250 and not worried about internet access on the street. But yep, still works, so I upgraded firmware and removed the old '3' branding firmware and software. Not sure if I'll use it out and about, or just use it to play music and podcasts. I'm stuck at home with a busted knee so I'm getting bored. Finally fixed an old nforce3 mobo with a 4400+. The capacitors near the cpu socket died in it 7 years ago. lovely electrolytic capacitors should be old and obsolete technology I had a go at replacing the caps 7 years ago, but wouldn't post, so I shelved the system. Just today I redid it and with the help of a decent soldering station and a PCI fault diagnostics card (obsolete tech on it's own), now I've got it running perfect so I have a spare PC. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 15:09 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Aug 10, 2015 14:59
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My chinaphone is here and I've been using it since yesterday. I left it sitting on the bedside table all night, unplugged, and when I checked this morning it still reported 100% battery, which is pretty cool. It does phone calls, text messages (no MMS that I can tell), and has a very very lovely web browser. I haven't gotten anything except Google to load properly. The camera is extremely bad (surprise!). It's better than one of those Gameboy cameras, I guess, but not much. The flash is just a regular white LED that does almost nothing. It has a little antenna that pulls out and actually makes the FM tuner work really well--you don't have to have the headphones plugged in to make it work. It also has an analog TV tuner which can pick up a single Mexican TV station. So far it's not too bad for $25 but goddamn does texting on a keypad suck. No predictive text either.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My chinaphone is here and I've been using it since yesterday. Is that the one Ashen reviewed with the stupid aerial that he poked himself in the eye with?
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Pham Nuwen posted:My chinaphone is here and I've been using it since yesterday.
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Aug 11, 2015 04:27
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mystes posted:You promised pictures. well now for whatever reason my regular phone isn't turning on and I'm too  to haul out the DSLRedit: ok the bastard turned on, pictures incoming Pretty innocuous lying there:  Then the antenna deploys!  Too bad the only analog signal is a single station out of (I believe) Mexico:  But the FM tuner works great:  You can play the radio in the background too:  Here's the app drawer thing:   The browser sorta works, but it craps out if you try to go to an https link. Thanks to the EFF and all those drat "security people", that happens a lot!:  Sending a text: 
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Non Serviam posted:Why did you want that phone? Why would you not?
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Everyone at my school wanted the Nokia 8110 just because Matrix:  And we wondered what awesome phone would be in the sequals! This loving thing: 
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I mentioned that Matrix Reloaded phone a while back in the last mobile derail. It's known as the Samsung SPH-N270 and cost $500. It was a pretty basic phone beyond the novelty branding where your call was answered from activating the snap up speaker. But it had no bluetooth, no MP3 function and no text messaging. Yup it's 2003 and you release a phone that can't text. Apparently 10,000 were made but people suspect that's a lot lower as ID numbers only seem to reach around 2000 on ebay. It's possible the thing tanked and they pulled it. Another never-to-really-exist phone was the Ericsson JB988.  The first mobile seen in the Bond films. It control cars via remote, picks locks, scans fingerprints and tazers you! Sony Ericsson (nowadays Sony) has had a fairly long run with the James Bond series since 1997. One amusing cameo was a Sony Ericsson P800 in Die Another Day being used as a way for a North Korean agent to message a photo of Bond over to HQ to check. Which beyond fancy screen graphics wasn't completely impossible - save for the fact North Korea didn't have a mobile phone system in 2001. The phone tie ins got blatant with the Craig films where they were everywhere. Just the problem was that a magical phone was becoming a bit twee. So everyone just texted each other allowing for blatant product shots. At best there were cool screen graphics or a GPS in action; or at the most extreme Quantum of Solace had his phone be able to take clear photos in low-light and be clear enough for MI6 to ID in realtime.
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Aug 11, 2015 12:19
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Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good.
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I had a 7110 for a short time. It had the same Matrix-like slide function with a button on the side that made the "mouthpiece" shoot out. The latch for the slide tended to wear out quickly though and after a while it wouldn't stay closed.
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Non Serviam posted:Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good.
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Humphreys posted:Everyone at my school wanted the Nokia 8110 just because Matrix: Isn't that thing worth a good bit to collectors since they had a really short run?
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Aug 11, 2015 12:26
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Non Serviam posted:Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good. Doesn't everyone use swype? Last time I used a nokia smartphone (pre android) it had swype, and a later (early) android google smart phone had it too.
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Fo3 posted:Doesn't everyone use swype? Last time I used a nokia smartphone (pre android) it had swype, and a later (early) android google smart phone had it too. I tried and never liked it. In any case, Swiftkey also supports swype
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Non Serviam posted:Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good. 
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Pilsner posted:Just installed it and I'm impressed. The flow typing feature is is rather amazing I must say. I got it when it was still a paid software. Now they charge for custom themes. Great app.
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Collateral Damage posted:Seconding SwiftKey. If you use it turn off the built in spell checker though, otherwise when you tap a word the spellchecker will cover up the SwiftKey suggestions. I've never had that problem. I do have a problem with the predictive text constantly suggesting "Nazis" in any imaginable context, though.
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Speaking of terrible phones in mediocre movies, Peter Parker in the Amazing Spiderman uses a Sony X10 Mini Pro: I couldn't find a decent movie screenshot (great job marketing there, Sony), but it was an Android 2.x smartphone with a slider keyboard and pretty decent 5mp camera. It was early in Android's evolution, when manufacturers didn't yet realize people wanted big phones, so I think it's got the title as one of the smallest Android phone ever. There was a non-slider version that was thinner. My wife wanted a phone with a hardware keyboard, so I purchased one from an eBay seller in Hong Kong. I don't think this was ever sold in the US. I guess it wasn't terrible and in terms of movie tie-ins, it makes sense that Spider-man isn't hauling around a phablet in his costume. And a hardware keyboard is good if you're touch-typing while swinging from one skyscraper to another. But it was far too small to be practical for the non-superhero market.
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This was on stock Android (Nexus), I think the spell checker is different in the branded phones. Also Swiftkey bases its suggestions on what you commonly type, so...  edit: ^^ I had the full size X10 for about two months before I decided that it was an utterly terrible phone and traded it for a HTC Desire. Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 15:32 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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What was the PDA that Reed Richards uses in the second (?) Fantastic Four movie? I want to say it was a Nokia?
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Non Serviam posted:Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good. I just installed it, as I was pretty annoyed at Google's keyboard I had installed previously. It was supposed to be better than Samsung's own, but I found the swype function to be a lot less accurate. SwiftKey seems slick, though.
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mng posted:I just installed it, as I was pretty annoyed at Google's keyboard I had installed previously. It was supposed to be better than Samsung's own, but I found the swype function to be a lot less accurate. SwiftKey seems slick, though.
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Non Serviam posted:Those who have mentioned bad text prediction, I strongly suggest (if they're Android users) to give SwiftKey a try. It's really drat good. I just did. It's like Swype but better!
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Non Serviam posted:Why did you want that phone? ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Why would you not? Almost 2 days since I charged it, 75% battery. I actually took a semi-decent photo with it this morning, but I can't upload it until I get home because I can't plug in outside USB devices at work.
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Collateral Damage posted:I had a 7110 for a short time. It had the same Matrix-like slide function with a button on the side that made the "mouthpiece" shoot out. I had that phone, and I got lucky with the slide I guess. It was like a tank and I used it for years until ATT forced me over to GSM.
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Collateral Damage posted:This was on stock Android (Nexus), I think the spell checker is different in the branded phones. I believe SwiftKey also gets suggestions from some kind of Cloud service. I usually send texts in spanish so there's a lot of "Buenos días", however that doesn't stop Swiftkey from suggesting I should maybe type "Buenos Aires".   Argentina.gif
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