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Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete
An anonymous reader writes "recombu.com has an article examining ten things mobile phones will make obsolete, including phone booths, wristwatches and handheld games consoles. It's interesting to see how many devices have been absorbed into mobile phone technology, and it raises the question: are we better off having everything in one device? The author poignantly concludes that while it's great to have so much power at our fingertips, it does mean that some of us will rely on mobile phones for even basic mental tasks, which is great until the battery runs out." See also Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power.
My phone keeps the time just fine when out of reception. Likely better than an old pocket watch. What kind of brick-phone do you have?
Maybe it's the Aspergers that makes me obsess about things being technically correct, but begging a question if very different from raising a question. Just saying.
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Asimov - "The Feeling Of Power"
Can be read here: http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
Another thing you can do on most modern web enabled phones is look up phrases like Begs the Question and see what a fool you are making of yourself prior to posting on slashdot.
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Brought to you by the obligatory and gratuitous grammar snarks.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
you've never been to Japan...
Please, someone make something that will obsolete slashvertisments disguised as rehashed top ten lists.
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I think this is/was a common thing with CDMA (or whatever the non-GSM protocol is called exactly) telephones. They get the time from the network and don't/didn't bother storing it anywhere locally.
SE K800i 3Mpix, SE K850i 5Mpix, Sony sensor. Better than N95. Better than most old 2-3Mpix cameras.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
[X] Allowed: I work in a secure facility. I must leave my phone in a locker outside the facility. My watch goes everywhere I do.
[X] Real water resistant, mine goes scuba diving with me and it ain't an expensive dive watch, it's a $40 Timex.
[X] Battery life in excess of eight years and counting (it's only rated for seven).
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
The main trigger was about 10 years ago, when I suddenly developed a serious rash on my wrist under the watch. I carried it in my pocket for a week or so, to see what happened. The rash slowly went away, and a doctor told me that he'd seen quite a lot of watch-caused rashes recently. He didn't know what they were putting in or on the metal, but it wasn't anything good.
You have a nickel allergy.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
I have the same problem when I visited Knoxville. The city is located about 60 miles inside the Eastern Time Zone, but my phone occasionally thinks it is in Central Time Zone. Luckily, my phone has a setting to specify the time zone, so I put it on Eastern Standard and kept the auto-sync.