I'd like a phone that was just a good phone.
It's not just that the phoneness is degraded by the extra features.
It's also that the phone is harder to use as a phone just because of the presence of the other features.
Sometimes I turn it on and it uses it's last bit of charge to show me a bunch of bright color pictures (promoting the carrier) and then shuts itself down. I suppose there's a way to change that but that's how it came setup. I just want to use it not study it.
The way it came set up, I sometimes answer it in speaker phone mode without even realizing it.
Another thing: If I had a good phone _and_ a good computer, I could _call_ the computer and talk to it. The phone doesn't have to carry the capability around to give you access to it.
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Better: Cheaper, cooler, robuster, securer, privater. Enough: Easy, capable.
I'd like a phone that was just a good phone. It's not just that the phoneness is degraded by the extra features. It's also that the phone is harder to use as a phone just because of the presence of the other features. Sometimes I turn it on and it uses it's last bit of charge to show me a bunch of bright color pictures (promoting the carrier) and then shuts itself down. I suppose there's a way to change that but that's how it came setup. I just want to use it not study it. The way it came set up, I sometimes answer it in speaker phone mode without even realizing it. Another thing: If I had a good phone _and_ a good computer, I could _call_ the computer and talk to it. The phone doesn't have to carry the capability around to give you access to it.