Nokia phones are nearly indestructible [unless you submerge them when turned on], and they have far better reception than almost any other phone.
US network companies don't want a phone that won't break, and work too well. Customers won't pay for new phones so often. My husband is still using my 2004 Nokia phone--it's rubber. OTOH my son gave me his 2 yr old [permanently locked] iPhone to use as an iPod when the screen and back both cracked.
My 6 year old Nokia phone has multitasking and a camera. My N79 [2008] has a front facing camera, and 5 mpx back camera. N8 same with touch screen, 12 mpx camera. FFC is a standard and doesn't have to be even mentioned. iPhone was one of the last to get one, and last to use FFC for calls instead of just WiFi. Sony Ericcson had a phone for video calls [not just chat] 8 years ago. Phones with FFC have been very popular in Japan since 2005, Europe since 2007, but are the latest new shiny objects in the US.
The best thing for Nokia to do now is to release their phones with a choice of several OS's. When you get your new phone, you pick one--MeeGo, Symbian, Windows, Android--and lock it in. When you get bored or annoyed with your choice, you can switch. Or have dual-boot, or boot from SD card, like I do with my tablet [or computer] so I can have multiply systems.
US isn't the biggest market for smart phones, it's the biggest market for shiny things that don't always work well. I'll keep my N8, thank you.
Jobs should have retired in 2004-2005 when he was first sick with cancer. He hadn't been rational since then. He'd been doing the same things that got him fired the first time, multiplied by 10. In his presentations he made stuff up, then upped it to insane lawsuits. Otherwise we wouldn't be stuck with almost an entire line of disposable electronics made overseas. Macs, R.I.P.
Apple could make a tiny bluetooth headset that slides into the iPhone. Slide it out and it can attach "magically" to an embedded magnet in your earlobe, like jewelry. Should be easy for the multiple-piercing crowd.
I live east of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The only phones with any reception are Nokia phones. Best is the old 1100, then 6010, older N-series. Newer phones get worse reception. Nothing at all with Moto, S-E, iPhone. Samsung. Bummer.
Nokia 1100 doesn't even have a camera. The flashlight is wonderful.
Isn't the monthly charge similar in Euros in other European countries? I bought a SIM card for less than 10 Euros that had unlimited data.
Where I live, the only choice in broadband is slow DSL [1 Mbps] for $15/month--a great deal compared to our dial-up---and cable for $68/mo 5-15 Mbps. The other provider said we'll never get fiber because "nobody" lives here [on the Chesapeake Bay].
Choosing between too slow for downloads and highway robbery is not a choice.
It's rubber! It has phenomenal reception, sounds great, easy to use, and it's got a built-in flashlight. Battery life is better than any other phone I've ever used; standby, at least 2 weeks; turned off, it will hold its charge for months. Talk all day. Text longer. Can't do that with an iPhone.
Has a loop so you can attach a lanyard to wear around your neck. Good for hiking, walking, driving.
Sometimes simple is better. [Find it on ebay for $10-$1000]
Not quite. Apple THINKS it's designing devices to quickly become obsolete, but forgets repurposing.
I was seriously considering replacing my iPod Touch v.1 with a new Touch 4 for its speakers, mic and camera. Then I found out that I'd need more than a spudger to open the Touch 4 to replace a battery, etc. It's GLUED shut so you need a heat gun AND a spudger to open it. It's designed so that very delicate parts are very likely to break, as in the 80GB iPod where the socket for the battery is thin plastic that breaks off when you unplug it to install a new battery.
My son dropped his iPhone 3G and cracked the corner of the glass. He "needed" a new iPhone 4. He gave me his 3G and it's better than the Touch 4, cracked glass and all. But I need to figure out how to make it mine, jailbreak it and unlock it so I can use it overseas. Maybe not. My Nokia smart phone is a much better phone than any iPhone--better reception, camera, and sound, so the 3G is my new Touch! Free is good.
...of how well you can take tests. We took a psych class on testing and discovered an interesting thing. I took a series of tests--around ten of them. The ones where I answered with what I thought or knew to be the correct answer scored about 15-20 points lower than where I answered with what I thought the testers wanted.
I must be really smart. I can get the right answers even when they're wrong. AND I can psych out the test writers. AND I'm a genius, according to the psyched tests.
Around here it costs well over $400 a month for heating and cooling. House is 2200 sf. Electricity and propane have been very expensive for years. We don't have PV panels yet, but may get them soon, unless we decide to build a wind generator [ maybe]. Or the 'powers that be' will OK building the offshore wind farm that we've been promised for years and don't see yet.
We played that alternative renewable energy game 30 years ago. Quietly. Saved an extra +$100k to do better things than to heat or cool our house, like paying tuition, paying off our mortgage early and finding good naturist beaches.
Conservation and passive solar can replace more than 50% of the energy you--not ME--waste. Easy. High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) -- BTDT ca. 1980. We even have almost free air conditioning from long underground pipes.
Research? Make a list of what's already been done and change the building codes to require more insulation, air-to-air heat exchangers, solar hot water, PV panels, credits for being good [with energy]. This is OLD tech. We got our $3300 tax credit and turned it into a +3000% return. Pretty sweet!
Anywhere I go in Europe where there's a T-Mobile network, there's plenty of bandwidth, even in medieval fortresses. Why tempt US customers with HSPA+/HSPDA/4G then moan when they use it!
T-Mobile: If you build it they will come. Can't wait to get the Nokia N8 and suck up bandwidth everywhere.
BBV mailing list yesterday requested techs and analysts to review election results. Software tools available here, http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/74942.html.
Brad Friedman, http://bradblog.com/ and Mark Crispin Miller of NYU, http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/ report almost daily about election fraud. Yes, that's ELECTION FRAUD, not voter fraud.
E-Vote tampering can be lessened by having verifiable paper ballots, and using open-source software for both machines and central tallying. E-vote tampering can be eliminated by using hand-counted paper ballots, and requiring recounts when the resulting spread is 1% or less.
E-voting is very profitable for voting machine companies and owners like Chuck Hagel who miraculously won a Senate election after being so far behind--until votes were miraculously added overnight for an amazing victory.
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Nokia phones are nearly indestructible [unless you submerge them when turned on], and they have far better reception than almost any other phone.
US network companies don't want a phone that won't break, and work too well. Customers won't pay for new phones so often. My husband is still using my 2004 Nokia phone--it's rubber. OTOH my son gave me his 2 yr old [permanently locked] iPhone to use as an iPod when the screen and back both cracked.
My 6 year old Nokia phone has multitasking and a camera. My N79 [2008] has a front facing camera, and 5 mpx back camera. N8 same with touch screen, 12 mpx camera. FFC is a standard and doesn't have to be even mentioned. iPhone was one of the last to get one, and last to use FFC for calls instead of just WiFi. Sony Ericcson had a phone for video calls [not just chat] 8 years ago. Phones with FFC have been very popular in Japan since 2005, Europe since 2007, but are the latest new shiny objects in the US.
The best thing for Nokia to do now is to release their phones with a choice of several OS's. When you get your new phone, you pick one--MeeGo, Symbian, Windows, Android--and lock it in. When you get bored or annoyed with your choice, you can switch. Or have dual-boot, or boot from SD card, like I do with my tablet [or computer] so I can have multiply systems.
US isn't the biggest market for smart phones, it's the biggest market for shiny things that don't always work well. I'll keep my N8, thank you.
Jobs should have retired in 2004-2005 when he was first sick with cancer. He hadn't been rational since then. He'd been doing the same things that got him fired the first time, multiplied by 10. In his presentations he made stuff up, then upped it to insane lawsuits. Otherwise we wouldn't be stuck with almost an entire line of disposable electronics made overseas. Macs, R.I.P.
Didn't follow the Buddha's teachings.
Why use a jack at all?
Apple could make a tiny bluetooth headset that slides into the iPhone. Slide it out and it can attach "magically" to an embedded magnet in your earlobe, like jewelry. Should be easy for the multiple-piercing crowd.
I live east of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The only phones with any reception are Nokia phones. Best is the old 1100, then 6010, older N-series. Newer phones get worse reception. Nothing at all with Moto, S-E, iPhone. Samsung. Bummer.
Nokia 1100 doesn't even have a camera. The flashlight is wonderful.
Isn't the monthly charge similar in Euros in other European countries? I bought a SIM card for less than 10 Euros that had unlimited data.
Where I live, the only choice in broadband is slow DSL [1 Mbps] for $15/month--a great deal compared to our dial-up---and cable for $68/mo 5-15 Mbps. The other provider said we'll never get fiber because "nobody" lives here [on the Chesapeake Bay].
Choosing between too slow for downloads and highway robbery is not a choice.
I'm beginning to think that locked-down Apple is infinitely more evil than M$.
Steve Ballmer's problem is that he doesn't have a huge reality distortion field like Steve Jobs.
Word of the day for Steve Ballmer: PREVARICATE, but don't quit!
It's part of APPle. Naturally.
They can convince iPhone and iPad owners to pay too much for their devices AND advertise for Apple without payment every time they send a message.
Everything Apple says is true. Because. They said it. Naturally.
BEST basic phone, hands down: Nokia 1100.
It's rubber! It has phenomenal reception, sounds great, easy to use, and it's got a built-in flashlight. Battery life is better than any other phone I've ever used; standby, at least 2 weeks; turned off, it will hold its charge for months. Talk all day. Text longer. Can't do that with an iPhone.
Has a loop so you can attach a lanyard to wear around your neck. Good for hiking, walking, driving.
Sometimes simple is better. [Find it on ebay for $10-$1000]
Not quite. Apple THINKS it's designing devices to quickly become obsolete, but forgets repurposing.
I was seriously considering replacing my iPod Touch v.1 with a new Touch 4 for its speakers, mic and camera. Then I found out that I'd need more than a spudger to open the Touch 4 to replace a battery, etc. It's GLUED shut so you need a heat gun AND a spudger to open it. It's designed so that very delicate parts are very likely to break, as in the 80GB iPod where the socket for the battery is thin plastic that breaks off when you unplug it to install a new battery.
My son dropped his iPhone 3G and cracked the corner of the glass. He "needed" a new iPhone 4. He gave me his 3G and it's better than the Touch 4, cracked glass and all. But I need to figure out how to make it mine, jailbreak it and unlock it so I can use it overseas. Maybe not. My Nokia smart phone is a much better phone than any iPhone--better reception, camera, and sound, so the 3G is my new Touch! Free is good.
...of how well you can take tests. We took a psych class on testing and discovered an interesting thing. I took a series of tests--around ten of them. The ones where I answered with what I thought or knew to be the correct answer scored about 15-20 points lower than where I answered with what I thought the testers wanted.
I must be really smart. I can get the right answers even when they're wrong. AND I can psych out the test writers. AND I'm a genius, according to the psyched tests.
Around here it costs well over $400 a month for heating and cooling. House is 2200 sf. Electricity and propane have been very expensive for years. We don't have PV panels yet, but may get them soon, unless we decide to build a wind generator [ maybe]. Or the 'powers that be' will OK building the offshore wind farm that we've been promised for years and don't see yet.
We played that alternative renewable energy game 30 years ago. Quietly. Saved an extra +$100k to do better things than to heat or cool our house, like paying tuition, paying off our mortgage early and finding good naturist beaches.
Conservation and passive solar can replace more than 50% of the energy you--not ME--waste. Easy. High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) -- BTDT ca. 1980. We even have almost free air conditioning from long underground pipes.
Research? Make a list of what's already been done and change the building codes to require more insulation, air-to-air heat exchangers, solar hot water, PV panels, credits for being good [with energy]. This is OLD tech. We got our $3300 tax credit and turned it into a +3000% return. Pretty sweet!
Anywhere I go in Europe where there's a T-Mobile network, there's plenty of bandwidth, even in medieval fortresses. Why tempt US customers with HSPA+/HSPDA/4G then moan when they use it!
T-Mobile: If you build it they will come. Can't wait to get the Nokia N8 and suck up bandwidth everywhere.
BBV mailing list yesterday requested techs and analysts to review election results. Software tools available here, http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/74942.html.
Brad Friedman, http://bradblog.com/ and Mark Crispin Miller of NYU, http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/ report almost daily about election fraud. Yes, that's ELECTION FRAUD, not voter fraud.
E-Vote tampering can be lessened by having verifiable paper ballots, and using open-source software for both machines and central tallying. E-vote tampering can be eliminated by using hand-counted paper ballots, and requiring recounts when the resulting spread is 1% or less.
E-voting is very profitable for voting machine companies and owners like Chuck Hagel who miraculously won a Senate election after being so far behind--until votes were miraculously added overnight for an amazing victory.