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Helll yeah. My G1 is awesome but I've gotta press like four different buttons
to get to the screen where I can dial a phone number.
ok, I just realized it is only 3, since you can hit the green button to go
straight to the dialpad instead of picking it off the menu. But you still
need one press to wake up the phone and another to unlock it.
Not thast I'm complaining -- no one said that I *had* to get a smartphone.
Not thast I'm complaining -- no one said that I *had* to get a smartphone.
Hmm... slide, then one button for me on the Incredible. At the bottom of the screen, there's a Phone button that I can tap to make phone calls.
Unless I'm actually in an application, of course, then I have to tap the Home button to see the Phone button.
Tapping Phone gives me a numeric keypad for the number, with a slidy-thing up top for previously-dialed numbers that I could also press.
Man, you guys have it good.
When I have to dial a phone number, I have to pick up the handset and tap out each number on the hook one-at-a-time.
Nines and zeroes are a pain in the ass.
When I have to dial a phone number, I have to pick up the handset and tap out each number on the hook one-at-a-time.
Nines and zeroes are a pain in the ass.
Well, this is after I got away from tapping the hang-up key repeatedly to dial my numbers. Nines and Zeroes were really awful when I had to dial with that system.
I'm of the opinion that many battery-pwoered devices we use today should
have cranks with flywheel generators, or at least the option to attach one.
How nice would it be to be able to crank-start your car when the battery up and died on you?
Or you need to make a phone call, but your cell battery is dead? Just crank it up!
They already have flashlights that you shake to light up. I think with a little clever engineering, it wouldn't be that difficult to add some kind of mechanical-electrical fall-back.
Crank Binder
How nice would it be to be able to crank-start your car when the battery up and died on you?
Or you need to make a phone call, but your cell battery is dead? Just crank it up!
They already have flashlights that you shake to light up. I think with a little clever engineering, it wouldn't be that difficult to add some kind of mechanical-electrical fall-back.
Crank Binder
they have those things as separate 3rd party gadgets.
what they SHOULD design into every single gadget is a standard inductance charging platform. So you can just put your phone down for a few minutes to recharge it whereever you go and the chargers are ubiquitous.
what they SHOULD design into every single gadget is a standard inductance charging platform. So you can just put your phone down for a few minutes to recharge it whereever you go and the chargers are ubiquitous.
Actually that would be totally cool Ford. I think you should do it and make
a fortune. But at least now we are getting to the point of having the same
connector on most phones, that is to say two connectors.. both of them USB.
So unexpected opportunities to grab a charge come up far more often than they used to.
So unexpected opportunities to grab a charge come up far more often than they used to.
problem with those inductive chargers is you gotta have real good
alignment in all 3 axes before you get good transfer of current. This
is why toothbrush chargers have the nubbin in the middle. Can't just
set a device on a large pad and expect it to work well.
alignment in all 3 axes before you get good transfer of current. This
is why toothbrush chargers have the nubbin in the middle. Can't just
set a device on a large pad and expect it to work well.
This all sounds very cool, but for all practical purposes a standard plug
connector is just as good. It's pretty much like Pulse said -- when all the
plugs are the same, there are lots of opportunities to pick up a quick charge.
Of course, we were pretty much there until Motorola and others fucked it up by switching from Mini USB to Micro USB.
Of course, we were pretty much there until Motorola and others fucked it up by switching from Mini USB to Micro USB.
Of course, we were pretty much there until Motorola and others fucked it up by switching from Mini USB to Micro USB.
No no, motorola has been fucking it up by making their wall chargers output 6V over USB and making phones that wouldn't charge over 5V USB.
I would have been happy if they had all settled on Mini-USB, but that was
really not a standard. The micro-usb is the actual standard.. the EU passed
a regulation of some sort requiring everyone to agree to a single charger
type.. and they all did, except Apple. But now Apple has sucked it up and
so all the new models after some such date have to have micro-usb. Not that
it's going to be very helpful to me in the short run, but it is something
I will look for in a new phone.
This guy has a clever response for all those damned telemarketers:
http://revk.www.me.uk/2010/07/what-moron.html
He works for a cell phone company, so he created a honeypot of phones to tarpit telemarketers.