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Plain Cell Phones Fading Away?
An anonymous reader writes "According to this Reuters article plain old vanilla cell phones are fading away in the US. Instead, the author claims, (after quoting some 'expert' from this company) that phones with fancy features (cameras, games, etc.) are starting to dominate. I beg to differ - one of the few things stopping me from purchasing a phone is the fact that I do not want to pay for hundreds of features that I will never use. All I want is an address book and a way to make calls."
Personally I just want one that has a ring tone that sounds like a damn phone ringing instead playing really annoying songs....
My phone, an LG 5350, has exactly that - a ring tone that sounds like an old fashioned bell phone. It's wonderful, and I've received several compliments on the tone.
I'm not sure why thats insightful...
Its not. He may not be able to discern significant differences in the engineering of your car from a photo, but someone whose life is designing cars very well may be able to.
Say I was on a tour of the factory your DOHC engine was being made in, and I am making pushrod engines. I'm a mechanical engineer, say, who has devoted his life to making engines. The photo of your engine on the assembly line where I can see the timing chain wrapping around two gears at the heads may say something pretty damn important to me, that you clearly are synchronizing your valves from above, not below. If I hadn't thought about that before, thats huge.
Maybe I can see a detail of how you are running the intake plumbing that is keeping your intake charge cooler. Thats something I can easily get from a photo, especially if your car is on an assembly line and I can see the routing of the plumbing.
My unique ring tone is that my phone sounds like a phone ringing.
Everyone else can suffer with painful sounding synth music.
(what's really perverse is I can download new ring tones, but it's a $2/mo charge. wtf!)
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