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Anyone getting tired of "smartphones"?
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Lol good phone in its day. Had one of those also.
daneoni said:I have the perfect phone for you
It'll last a week or more on a single charge. It calls, texts, doesn't have 'smart' attached to it, and even has games.
Lol good phone in its day. Had one of those also.
Nope. I don't live my life by how much battery I use. I use my device, when it dies, it dies. If I can charge it, so be it. If not, I get peace and quiet for a while until I can. Lol
Most times I am sitting in front of a computer, in a car or at home so it's not like I can't charge my phone. Plus I have 2 APC battery chargers that I can use with any USB device for charging. They are the same size as my iPhone, maybe a tad smaller.
So nope. No worries. Don't care.
Most times I am sitting in front of a computer, in a car or at home so it's not like I can't charge my phone. Plus I have 2 APC battery chargers that I can use with any USB device for charging. They are the same size as my iPhone, maybe a tad smaller.
So nope. No worries. Don't care.
Nope. I don't live my life by how much battery I use. I use my device, when it dies, it dies. If I can charge it, so be it. If not, I get peace and quiet for a while until I can. Lol
Most times I am sitting in front of a computer, in a car or at home so it's not like I can't charge my phone. Plus I have 2 APC battery chargers that I can use with any USB device for charging. They are the same size as my iPhone, maybe a tad smaller.
So nope. No worries. Don't care.
EXACTLY!!! Some people act as if they are going on some epic journey across the world to throw a ring in pit of fire.
I think this is exactly what the OP is talking about: nowadays you have to have those chargers, pocket batteries. Almost like an 'energy hunter' when your smartphone displays "Only 10% of battery", WHICH IS COMMOM <-- and thats the point of this discussion.
To the OP: yes, I know the feeling. I have a 4S and this week I was searching on ebay for a regular Nokia like the 6303i classic. I mean, when you sit to study or work, you get disturbed by the signs, beeps, vibe etc. And EVEN IF YOU disable these notifications, its a smartphone with hundreds of apps, so its kind of hard to not check your phone every 5 minutes once you buy one.
How about reading? I used to read a lot. Now, iPhone + 3G + Google made me save some hours of study/reading per day for the sake of getting answers quickly. Apple, Samsung and the others says its better this way. But I don't agree. Its like cheating in a test by copying the answer vs knowing the subject because you've studied it. You don't learn a lot (or nothing at all) in the first case.
We are trying to do everything faster and do many things in one single day since smartphones have been part of our lives. So much worry about it that we forget to be social, have conversations, read more books, appreciate nature without spending 10 minutes taking pictures and sharing on instagram for the sake of "likes".
For the trolls: its just my view of the situation, just my opinion. Before you come here and disagree, ask yourself if you have never wanted to do something more with your time instead of checking your phone frequently...
When you give people what they want they will grow to hate you for it...because they never knew what they wanted in the first place.
I think smartphones have plateaued. The iPhone 5 and Nexus 4, and Nokia Lumia 920, pretty much all do the same thing very good at the end of the day. Each phone, can text, e-mail, surf the web, give you GPS navigation, pretty much the same.
Sure us hardcore nerds can spot the differences in each OS, but to the average smartphone user, there truly isn't radical difference between each of the three top OS's.
What else can truly be done on a smartphone that isn't being done already, by any of the big 3 ? Sure they will get faster, thinner, better screens, etc...but to me all smartphones seem to have reached a limit.
An iPhone 5 or Nexus 4, can do pretty much anything right now. What would a iPhone 6 or Nexus 5 really add to the game, over the current phones ?
Sure us hardcore nerds can spot the differences in each OS, but to the average smartphone user, there truly isn't radical difference between each of the three top OS's.
What else can truly be done on a smartphone that isn't being done already, by any of the big 3 ? Sure they will get faster, thinner, better screens, etc...but to me all smartphones seem to have reached a limit.
An iPhone 5 or Nexus 4, can do pretty much anything right now. What would a iPhone 6 or Nexus 5 really add to the game, over the current phones ?
Not surprisingly some of you spend quite a bit of emotional energy for a tool. All I can say is you let your tool run your life instead of the other way around. The disease will subside after you have a couple of kids, mortgage, bad boss blah-blah then a smartphone will seem like a small potatoe.
Apply made my solution easy: The screen is too small to do most of these things anyway, so I use it only for music, navigation, phone calls, camera and an occasional text. If I want to do any browsing or serious work, I use a real computer.
Ahaha! Nice!
Sorry to ask but... how old are you?
Anyway, dont you feel tempted to check internet, social network, emails, etc?
I'm not tired of smartphones whatsoever, they have made my life so much easier. I never worry about my battery life. It always lasts me all do no problem even though I have every possible battery draining feature on all day. When ever I get into the car I plug it in and whenever I got to bed I plug it in. Yes it was nice having a phone last a few days but considering I can do so much more with my iPhone I will take it over those bricks any day.
It wouldn't be hard for a company to make a smartphone that lasts a few days it would just be bigger. But I would take my slim iPhone that lasts all day over a fatter iPhone that lasts three. Smartphone manufacturers know that people charge their phones every night and that a phone that lasts more than a day is just excess battery.
-Brandon
It wouldn't be hard for a company to make a smartphone that lasts a few days it would just be bigger. But I would take my slim iPhone that lasts all day over a fatter iPhone that lasts three. Smartphone manufacturers know that people charge their phones every night and that a phone that lasts more than a day is just excess battery.
-Brandon
So, what you're basically saying is that people who complain about smartphones sucking their lives have nothing to do all day unless they have children or a bad boss?
I agree. I spend $30 for 2GB, and I only use 5% of it per month. I'd probably be just as happy going dumbphone/iPad(or iPod), which I'm considering. It certainly would be a lot cheaper. The iPad mini makes it an even more tempting idea.
I just have a feeling I'll really miss being "connected" everywhere (spots where there is no wifi etc.)
Thats EXACTLY what smartphones make us think: *We MUST be connected*
What the heck? Why do we need to be available E-V-E-R-Y second? Its like if we have, we have to read that last message on Facebook/twitter/email instantly while we are having dinner with someone in a good restaurant.
Thats starting to annoy me.
BUT, in the other hand, although I complain about this situation, sometimes I have that feeling "Im glad I have 3G connection to reply my emails here in the restaurant". Its something like... uh... "not good with it but worse without it", maybe?
Not necessarily the exact direction I was heading, but I get your point. I would just like to able to google a store's phone number to check their hours type of thing. I don't even have a Facebook or twitter
account. (So maybe I could make it work).
^this doesn't even make sense. If it was you're saying that the battery technology was better 10 years ago, then it is now. Obviously, those lights and whatever else was beig done was no where near the amount of battery strain we put on devices today. Battery technology has come a long way since then. If you put one of those old batteries in an iphone it would last about 20 minutes. Getting a full day is a big deal considering how much we use our devices w/ big hi def displays, LTE, Internet, video, etc. I agree that it would be nice if our phones lasted a few days on a single charge. But it's a big challenge to pack all that power in an already crammed device.
I get what you're saying and for additional reasons I stick with a regular mobile. Adding up the yearly cost, the price of the hardware and the fact that I don't feel the need for constant connectivity, a smart phone is not for me.