My New Phone Has A Camera In It, part II

[gominokouhai]

It seems there's no escape.

The old phone died with a pathetic whimper, but the nice people at the Orange Shop told me that I was due for a free upgrade. So now I have this thing with a 3.2 megapixel camera with Zeiss lenses, radio, mp3 player, video player, and an ARM processor core driving quad-band GSM, GPRS, and UMTS. I'm told it makes phone calls too, but I've not found that function yet.

All I actually want is something that will allow me to sometimes make phone calls when I'm not near a telephone. Instead I'm lugging around a billion times the processing power of the Apollo missions on my belt, probably. Meanwhile, even as they cram unsolicited silicon into my pocket, I can't help but think about all of those proteins going unfolded.

Having said that, the radio is quite nice. I'm rapidly learning about the current standard of voiceover talent, and thus that breaking into the industry really shouldn't be very difficult. On the other hand, given the quality of the scripting, I'm not sure I want to any more.

Comments

[calcinations.livejournal.com]

I believe the Motorola F3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_F3
is the most basic phone you can get just now. Mine cost me £20. So far it has survived being thrown on the floor, and is easy to use.
Ok, no phone, no colour screen, no video, no bluetooth, no IR, no GPS, but hey, it makes phone calls.

[gominokouhai]

Unfortunately I've been locked-in to the Nokia UI for nine years now.

[digitalraven.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask what you're carrying around at the moment? A lot of modern phones are let down by poor usability, but if I've any experience with it, then I could help you work out how to turn the crap off and get the most of your portable computer.

[gominokouhai]

What I got now is a Nokia 6500 slide. Usability seems reasonable, and the features are growing on me.

I'm just concerned about my flop footprint. Can you get a SETI@home client for this thing?

[leila-child.livejournal.com]

Heh, My sister recently asked me to help her pick a new phone. The 6500 slide is the best one going at the mome, if you're a Nokia fan. I prefer my Sony Ericsson myself, though that is mainly for the purpose of collecting more Cat pictures.

I will stop. Now.

[digitalraven.livejournal.com]

I'm a big SE fan as well—picked up the C905 camera with occasionally-attached telephone not too long ago and it's utterly brilliant.

[leila-child.livejournal.com]

*drools*

I'd love a C905 but it is waay out of my price range at the moment. Come to think of it, so's the C902. I'm getting a K810 very shortly, as the in-between releases were, well, pish. No real upgrade from my trusty K800, which is getting a bit wonky around the headphone socket(after nearly two years of use and looots of abuse).

[digitalraven.livejournal.com]

You and your Nokia fetish.

No SETI@home client, though it's surely only a matter of time until someone rolls one in J2ME.

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

I bought a Nokia from the Vodafone shop a year or so ago I think. Can't remember what it cost but it must have been less than £20. It can do phone calls and text messages, and the battery charge lasts for ages.

I now also have an iPod Touch for playing with, techy style, but I'm still happy not to have an iPhone with a ludicrously pricey contract. I think it's a big mistake to mix up phones and toys. I keep fun and phone calls strictly separate. I know that's a minority view, but never mind.

Hope you don't mind my friending you, after last night.

[gominokouhai]

Not at all! Welcome on board.