Chaim wrote:
Why not just grow up and get an android ?
Because smartphones should really be called uglyphones?
Far be it from me to be a heathen, but the whole purpose of a phone you can
carry is for my
convenience. On the rare occasion that I want to make a phone call, it's there.
I seldom answer
it, it isn't for other people to contact me. It's not for playing games, crap
like that.
It has nice big buttons that I can operate by touch. It has a whole pile of
useless "features" that
I can and do live without. Stereo sound, radio, tv, a dictionary. Sometimes I
use the camera, it
has a QR code reader.
It has osaifu-keitai (phone wallet). Now _THAT_ is useful.
Smartphones, be they Samsung or crapple, don't.
Without osaifu-keitai, felica, (I think merkans call this NFC) smartphones are
BLOODY USELESS,
all that bling and you can't actually buy shit with them.
This is why in japan, if you have a crapple iphone, you ALSO have to have
another phone to make
up for its LACK OF USEFUL FEATURES.
I can travel from one end of the country to the other, by air or train, stay in
a hotel, buy stuff,
all that and more with my phone. Indeed, I did the whole home -> fukuoka ->
home trip without
a single coin or note in summer. Still can't do that with anything from
Crapple or the evil-goog.
(no windows phones here ^^)
My phone is my train pass, it works in combinis, it can even be used as a
credit card. It's also
3 years old and still smartphones haven't caught up *1
P
*1 AU have some android phones with these features. Just starting to get out
there now, but
they are uglyphones. The shape is not conducive to being held at all.
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