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Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?
zaba writes "The original iPhone was a dream come true for me. Phone, camera, mp3 player and data all in one device. It had more cpu and memory than my first computer! Several generations of smartphones later, my wife and I have some random smartphones (some iPhone, some Android) lying around. Between privacy concerns, bad batteries, etc. these phones are not worthy of donation. So, I ask you, Slashdot readers, have you done anything fun with an old smartphone? Any suggestions/ideas?"
Phone, camera, mp3 player and data all in one device
Older Symbian s60 devices did the same for a much lower price and IIRC better battery life
It wasnt a dream come true, it was a feature phone dressed up as a smartphone
Intelligent people don't even HAVE a TV.
Intelligent people have a TV but don't watch what you watch. You're confusing the device for the content.
I don't think it's fair to decide somebody's intellect by the technologies they own. There are plenty of great TV shows, there's just many more horrible shows. That does not mean people that own a television are less intelligent than people without TVs.
I'm pretty sure all that counts as more of a life than going to a bar and getting wasted on the weekends. Really. Don't put yourself down just because you do something with your life.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Just fuck off and die, ok? He's looking for ideas. There is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong with being a misanthropic trolling pile of turd though, which you are doing a stellar job of.
Lots of organizations donate old cell phones to the underprivileged. The point is that the telcos are required to accept calls from cellphones dialing 911, regardless of whether they have a plan or not. As long as the old cell phone has a charge and a signal, it provides security to folks who might have (say) a problem with spousal abuse, or...
how does it count more? Its all just doing stuff.
I am amused that you say "laptops with much larger screen, keyboard and USB ports are far more cost effective" than using an old Android phone. If he doesn't have said laptop and DOES have said android phone...how exactly is it more cost effective to throw away the phone and buy a laptop?
Got to love the demonisation of the poor. It's much cooler than being racist. SImply change the word "black" for "welfare recipient" in all of your rants and no-one will bat an eyelid.
It's not like we're in the middle of the worst economic crisis for decades, with many people being laid off and needing society to help them get by while they try to be the one person out of the two thousand who applied to actually get the menial, low-paid job that is all that's on offer in the ex-industrial town they had the misfortune to be born in. Heaven forbid anyone would aspire to owning a consumer good which the constant saturation of advertising states is the only way to validate yourself as a person.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chavs-Demonization-Working-Owen-Jones/dp/184467696X might open your eyes (UK context but applicable to many western countries)
Well, what do intelligent people watch on TV? The Learning Channel hasn't been about learning in a decade. Same for Discovery. The "news" networks are atrocious. CSPAN is pointless. CSPAN2 on the weekends is good, but that's BookTV so why not just read? Charlie Rose is on past my bed time.
I like the Daily Show and Colbert, but let's be honest that's not exactly smart TV. Smarter than average, but still a guilty pleasure.
If you want to watch something smart, skip the TV entirely and check out Academic Earth. Why can't we have a cable network this good?
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