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I dont, cannot stand them really, I love gadgets and stuff, but phones, nah..total rubbish..I hate touch screen stuff...rubbish rubbish rubbish..
anyone NOT have a mobile/cell phone
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CodeRedR51
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They still sell these. No touch screen "rubbish".
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Its still a phone tho...ha
Capacitive touch screens are indeed rubbish. Misplaced button/icon presses, menus that refuse to open, swipes that don't register...I hate using them because nothing is as reliable as physical keys. It's a fundamentally inferior novelty and I had enough of it after I got an iPod Touch in 2008.
My flip phone is indispensable, though. We don't pay for land line service, so it's my only number for everything. @Mrs Wolfe and I can contact each other wherever we are, and I can call for a tow truck, etc.
My flip phone is indispensable, though. We don't pay for land line service, so it's my only number for everything. @Mrs Wolfe and I can contact each other wherever we are, and I can call for a tow truck, etc.
BobK
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So you don't even have a landline phone then, I take it?
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I don't, because it drains so much from you, which is fine if your one to use it a lot but I wouldn't, there is no reason for me to use a phone for anything other than talking when absolutely necessary.
When I do get a job, I know I'll eventually have to get one for work stuff, which is going to suck because I hate how expensive phones are with their continuous payment of credit and data.
When I do get a job, I know I'll eventually have to get one for work stuff, which is going to suck because I hate how expensive phones are with their continuous payment of credit and data.
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Scaff
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I'm on the internet without a landline at home, fibre fixes the need for that.yes there is a landline in the house, obviously thats how im on the internet...yes there is a land line phone, but rarely do i ever use it, i never answer it aswell, if its just me in...
However I have two smart phones, my work one (HTC One M8) and my personal one (Nexus 6P).
With my personal one I don't make or take that many calls, but it's still my main communication tool (when not face to face) and makes things a hell of a lot easier for me in that regard.
Things have moved on a lot in that regard since 2008.
Not that I can tell from any smart device that has been handed to me ("here, check out these photos!"). @Mrs Wolfe uses her Kindle Fire every day and still fumbles on tapping a desired web browser tab. I admit that I don't know anyone with an iPhone, since Apple's screens are apparently the best.
Matej
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I have a mobile phone, but I don't use it for anything other than wireless communication. If I could, I wouldn't use it for that purpose either, but nowadays you just can't work and live without it.
I also wish good old key phones were still popular, I dislike touch screens.
I also wish good old key phones were still popular, I dislike touch screens.
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- neema_t
@Wolfe To be fair, of the three types of touchscreen I've used (resistive, capacitive and acoustic), capacitive touch is by far the best. The issues with them are almost all down to the controller or the host device (though they can be prone to interference and certain fluids can confuse them); it's not like you can accidentally not press them hard enough like a resistive screen since a lot of them can work without direct contact and it's not like they need regular maintenance to keep the touch sensors working properly like an acoustic screen.
Also since there's no moving parts they will outlive mechanical buttons, though they're rarely what kills old devices - that's the battery or LCD backlight - so I don't personally subscribe to the theory that several devices with "bad" capacitive touchscreens means they're all bad; it's the software that controls or takes input from them that sucks. They're infinitely more versatile than buttons and smartphones could not exist without them. I'd argue that smartphones have been a huge driving force in technology, too; battery improvements (energy density, charge speed, etc.), antenna design, LCD pixel density, 3G, 4G, 802.11ac, subscription services, cloud services, rolling shutter camera technology, ARM architecture development (to the point where a tiny $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is now a usable alternative to even a desktop x86 computer for basic tasks), USB OTG... The list of things that the demand for smartphones has driven and paid for is huge and I honestly believe we could never have gotten to this point without the flexibility of a decent touchscreen. And yes, obviously touchscreen technology is on that list too.
That doesn't mean, however, that you must love touchscreens. I just believe technology on the whole would be quite different if mobile devices never got beyond using buttons.
Also since there's no moving parts they will outlive mechanical buttons, though they're rarely what kills old devices - that's the battery or LCD backlight - so I don't personally subscribe to the theory that several devices with "bad" capacitive touchscreens means they're all bad; it's the software that controls or takes input from them that sucks. They're infinitely more versatile than buttons and smartphones could not exist without them. I'd argue that smartphones have been a huge driving force in technology, too; battery improvements (energy density, charge speed, etc.), antenna design, LCD pixel density, 3G, 4G, 802.11ac, subscription services, cloud services, rolling shutter camera technology, ARM architecture development (to the point where a tiny $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is now a usable alternative to even a desktop x86 computer for basic tasks), USB OTG... The list of things that the demand for smartphones has driven and paid for is huge and I honestly believe we could never have gotten to this point without the flexibility of a decent touchscreen. And yes, obviously touchscreen technology is on that list too.
That doesn't mean, however, that you must love touchscreens. I just believe technology on the whole would be quite different if mobile devices never got beyond using buttons.
I have a phone, used to work for a huge mobile phone/cellphone company here in the UK and we had to have multiple devices as not having one due to it breaking was unacceptable (to be fair we could buy them for £10/$15 for a very basic spare so I sort of see why they thought that.
My latest is a year old Huawei Y635, I need a new one and can afford it but I simply cannot be bothered looking around, choosing one etc when this one works well enough until either I see one I want or Christmas comes and no-one knows what to buy me.
My latest is a year old Huawei Y635, I need a new one and can afford it but I simply cannot be bothered looking around, choosing one etc when this one works well enough until either I see one I want or Christmas comes and no-one knows what to buy me.
@neema_t -- I'm aware of how capacitive screens can vary depending on how the device/software interprets the signal from your finger(s).
I'm not against touchscreens outright, which is why I specified the type. I like Nintendo's resistive touchscreens and find them painless to use, even when pressing a button on the tiny screen of my original DS with a finger or fingernail. I'll take responsibility for not pressing hard enough over a screen that registers non-contact and reacts to a smudgy field of conductivity. A fumbled input on a resistive screen is self-explanatory, not frustrating. And it could be the size or conductivity of my fingers (like "zombie fingers"), rather than one device versus another.
There are other reasons I don't want a smartphone, but a resistive screen with a stylus would be more appealing.
I'm not against touchscreens outright, which is why I specified the type. I like Nintendo's resistive touchscreens and find them painless to use, even when pressing a button on the tiny screen of my original DS with a finger or fingernail. I'll take responsibility for not pressing hard enough over a screen that registers non-contact and reacts to a smudgy field of conductivity. A fumbled input on a resistive screen is self-explanatory, not frustrating. And it could be the size or conductivity of my fingers (like "zombie fingers"), rather than one device versus another.
There are other reasons I don't want a smartphone, but a resistive screen with a stylus would be more appealing.
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I have these problems with all touchscreens and biometric recognition devices, sometimes they don't "find" me. For a while, the school I went replaced conventional attendance methods with biometric ones and I always were late because the biometric sensor didn't find me or they thought was someone entirely random and didn't let me in because the class was in a different time.
The only touchscreen phone I liked was the Nokia Lumias, they had a dial for adjusting sensitivity of the touchscreen and when my fingers weren't recognizing, I simply cranked the sensitivity up and it was very awesome. Problem is the new Microsoft Lumias don't have this and Nokia don't "exist" anymore. One thing that helps is a capacitive touch stylus, I'm about to buy one but it is somewhar annoying to find where I live.
The only touchscreen phone I liked was the Nokia Lumias, they had a dial for adjusting sensitivity of the touchscreen and when my fingers weren't recognizing, I simply cranked the sensitivity up and it was very awesome. Problem is the new Microsoft Lumias don't have this and Nokia don't "exist" anymore. One thing that helps is a capacitive touch stylus, I'm about to buy one but it is somewhar annoying to find where I live.
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