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A dozen gadgets that were killed by the Cellphone

Started by Iason Ouabache, November 18, 2008, 08:19:20 PM

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I'm warming up to text message, despite the charge.  :x

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Text is ridiculously more convenient to deal with than voicemail as well.
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Quote from: Rumckle on December 03, 2008, 12:32:14 AM
The easy solution to this is not having friends.

Bah. I like friends, I just don't like them constantly calling me.
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i seem to like phones. i remember when the mobile phones got more ubiqitous, and i didn't have one (neophobia?) i was using public phones a lot because i wanted to stay in contact, and had to call people "on the go" a lot. finally i got one, and it was good :)

now i don't have a land line.

which may be stupid because of the emergency thing, even though mobile phones have special features to prioritize emergency calls as well. i heard something about, when it's new years eve, and all the networks are clogged, ringing the emergency number once, hanging up, would put you on a prioritized network and be able to call some one. not that i would do that, ever, of course (srsly).
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Quote from: Requiem on December 03, 2008, 04:22:44 AM
Text is ridiculously more convenient to deal with than voicemail as well.

Unless you're in a car, then it sucks ass.  You've just asked someone for directions, and they send you a motherfucking text.  :kingmeh:

Until they come up with a bluetooth that allows you to HEAR the fucking text, meh.

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Quote from: Jenne on December 08, 2008, 11:23:50 PM
Quote from: Requiem on December 03, 2008, 04:22:44 AM
Text is ridiculously more convenient to deal with than voicemail as well.

Unless you're in a car, then it sucks ass.  You've just asked someone for directions, and they send you a motherfucking text.  :kingmeh:

Until they come up with a bluetooth that allows you to HEAR the fucking text, meh.

No.  Phone application.  That should not be a feature of a bluetooth earpiece--the process is too complex to implement efficiently in a peripheral.




I just read the first page of this thread, and would like to say that a cell-phone (implementation) COULD do all-these-things-and-more, but

1.  It would then be a "personal device": cellphone is a comms device.  I'd enjoy portable processing with a desktop-class OS, but that wouldn't be a cellphone.
2.  what part goes obsolete first?
3.  who the fuck could concentrate the will to assemble such win at a decent price?

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I usually pull over when I need to get directions. Of course, also my phone has GPS.
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Jenne

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Quote from: Jenne on December 08, 2008, 11:23:50 PM
Quote from: Requiem on December 03, 2008, 04:22:44 AM
Text is ridiculously more convenient to deal with than voicemail as well.

Unless you're in a car, then it sucks ass.  You've just asked someone for directions, and they send you a motherfucking text.  :kingmeh:

Until they come up with a bluetooth that allows you to HEAR the fucking text, meh.

No.  Phone application.  That should not be a feature of a bluetooth earpiece--the process is too complex to implement efficiently in a peripheral.



You're right--I just hate texting instead of talking is all.  If I wanted to text instead of receive a phone call back from someone I just called, then I would email.  I say bluetooth also because we have laws here that prevent you from using a phone while driving unless you are doing so with your bluetooth or other headphone/speaker device thingie.

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Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 18, 2008, 08:19:20 PM
It's looking more and more like that people will be completely useless without their credit phones in the future.

I initially misread this -- now I'm thinking of patenting it....

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The tricorder will kill the cellphone, eventually.



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Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 18, 2008, 08:19:20 PM
Wired had a pair of good articles about different tech gadgets that have been rendered obsolete by fast-moving cellphone industry:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/five-gadget-whi.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/seven-more-gadg.html

If you are lazy and don't want to click, here's the list:

1. PDA
2. Camera
3. Ultra Mobile PC
4. Landline telephones
5. MP3 player
6. Pager
7. Wristwatch
8. Pocket Calculator
9. Alarm clock
10. SatNav
11. book
12. Handheld Console

I disagree with the inclusion of the MP3 players, books, and handheld consoles. The rest of the list is pretty dead on though.  I don't know anyone under the age of 40 that still has a landline. Pagers died a very swift death about 10 years ago. Wristwatches are used only as jewelry anymore.  It's much easier to just take your phone out of your pocket or just look at the time on your computer.  I still have an old digital alarm clock, but I always use the cellphone when I'm not at home.

It's looking more and more like that people will be completely useless without their cell phones in the future.

It's only a matter of time as far as mp3 players are concerned.  I am 31 and have a landline though.
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