no fanfare for iPhone 2.0?

[Bones]

I had an iPhone for about a week once.  If you just need a phone, it really does suck.  My current phone is much easier to use as a phone.

[SIK1]

When I got my last cell phone I tried to get one without a camera, and I couldn't. Why would I need one that does everything under the sun?
It's a funny thing, I lived most of my life without the need to be constantly in touch, and I still leave my cell phone in the car most of the time. I just don't understand why people need to be a slave to technology.

[mg1942]

now iPhone has serious competetion from Samsung!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLEPy899HFE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKQjitiN5Jk

[mg1942]

When I got my last cell phone I tried to get one without a camera, and I couldn't. Why would I need one that does everything under the sun?
It's a funny thing, I lived most of my life without the need to be constantly in touch, and I still leave my cell phone in the car most of the time. I just don't understand why people need to be a slave to technology.

It's that attitude why USA is losing out in (consumer) mobile technology.

My asian brothers out there are waay advanced by leaps and bounds.

[Bones]

It's that attitude why USA is losing out in (consumer) mobile technology.

My asian brothers out there are waay advanced by leaps and bounds.

Pardon me, but there is nothing wrong with keeping things simple.  Like I said, my phone does what I want it to and it does it better than an iPhone or the thing from Samsung.

If I have no choice but to use an iPhone, or anything like it, versus no phone at all, I will pick no phone at all.  I tried the iPhone and hated it.  Too complicated to use when all you want to do is make a phone call.

People like you are the problem with cell phones today.  The problem being, cell phones are almost impossible to find underneath all the other options stacked on them.  That is why 'text' became popular.  It was too difficult to use the thing as a phone.

[Bones]

Maybe I am going about this wrong.  Tell me what these phones do for me to make my life easier and better.  Maybe I do not understand what they are supposed to do to help me with the day to day things I have to get done.

[mg1942]

whoa

iPhone as "too complicated" to use???  Its GUI is like a gift from heaven, too easy!  No other phone out there is a easy as iPhone (or maybe Samsung's Instinct)

 
I guess some of us are simply not cut off for the all-digital 21st century...

[DiabloTX]

LMAO, you're getting all of this from a cellphone?  If it was something a bit more productive like a PC I could understand.  But to say Americans aren't ready for the "digital 21st-century" because of a cellphone is like saying my parents weren't ready for the 90's because they couldn't care less about how a Sony Walkman worked.

Expand your thinking a bit, ok?

[DREDIOCK]

Maybe I am going about this wrong.  Tell me what these phones do for me to make my life easier and better.  Maybe I do not understand what they are supposed to do to help me with the day to day things I have to get done.

They make you available to everyone all the time 24/7 365.

If you like being able to be in touch with the push of a button. They are great.

Me. the only reason I have one is for business.

I've never been the type that always has to have the latest and greatest doodad out there as soon as it comes out

When I got a new phone I wanted one with a camera.
thought it might be convenient.

6 months later Ive used it intentionally twice.
Once was about 3 weeks ago when I was replacing some door hardware on some new doors I installed and had to match other new hardware the costumer had someone else do.
this is. the style she chose was very similar to about 4 other styles the store had.
So I used the handy dandy phone cam to take a picture of what she had so I could use it as a reference when I got to the store.

That was the only real useful thing I've ever done with it.

The only other time I've used it was to take a pic of a couple of wild turkeys that walked past my ladder one day last fall.

I only need my cell to do two things.
Ring when someone tries to call me.
And connect when I want to make a call.

Every thing else is just more crap then I have a need for

[Bones]

whoa

iPhone as "too complicated" to use???  Its GUI is like a gift from heaven, too easy!  No other phone out there is a easy as iPhone (or maybe Samsung's Instinct)

 
I guess some of us are simply not cut off for the all-digital 21st century...

Seems you are not capable of having an objective conversation about this.  

Like I said.  I had an iPhone.  It simply does not work as well as a phone as it does other things, when I had one.  There are other issues, such as the battery, but that is apart from the functionality..

[Bones]

They make you available to everyone all the time 24/7 365.

I have that with my cell phone.

If you like being able to be in touch with the push of a button. They are great.

I have that with my cell phone.

I do not think I was clear in that last post.  When I referred to "phones" I was talking about the iPhone and phones of their ilk.  What do they do that is so important for me to have one?  I did have one and really did not care for it.  It was cumbersome to use.

Try this with an iPhone.  Pull the phone out of your pocket and do not look at it and make a call.  I can do that with my phone and it is handy when I have to make that call when I am in the car.  I tried it with an iPhone and that was when the realization I had bought a 'gadget' and not a 'tool' set in.

[Bronk]

Meh...just another cellphone with extra flair.

I'd rather spend the money on my car.

Or truck.

[DiabloTX]

Oh, sorry, my bad!

Trucks, too!

[1701E]

Funny how people are willing to pay $200 on a phone then another $100 a month on the contract.  I have a simple little Tracphone and it cost $30 and $20-$60 when ever i run out of minutes (or it is about to expire which happens more often). And that phone does what it says it does...makes calls just a phone is suppose to (if i ever had a need it can text message).  Why would someone honestly need to take that many photos (if any)?  Isn't that what a camera is for?  I understand it's for simplicity, but seems a little overkill to put so much in 1 device.  I'm done now

[DREDIOCK]

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I guess some of us are simply not cut off for the all-digital 21st century...

Lessee. We have kids that cant do math in their head or on paper because its easier to use a calculator.
And kids who cant write complete words in a sentence.

If a kid says he is going to play some baseball. He is just as likely to mean he is going to play it on a playstation or some other gaming system as he is to actually try and hit a real ball with a real bat and actually exert himself by having to run around on an actual field.

In large part because of this everything in an instant technology people don't know how to be patient to wait for anything.
Everything has to be "right now|" as we have become a society based on instant gratification,

We've got people who probably couldn't find their way out of a cardboard box using a map let alone a wilderness situation because they have become so dependant on GPS.

Few people I know actually know how to cook anything from scratch anymore.

God help the general population should some catastrophe ever occur that renders all their techno super gadgetry useless.
As half these people don't know basic survival skills that were common knowledge just 30 years ago.

As I get older I find myself tending to focus more on what I might actually need rather then having the latest and greatest.
I've grown weary of buying into the machine.

With all these goodies out its just another way of finding new ways to separate you from your money.

When I see people clamoring over all these new items.
Two quotes immediately come to mind.

"a fool and his money are soon parted"
And
"There's a sucker born every minute"