On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:25 AM, James E. LaBarre wrote: > You know, it's amazing just how many *days* of battery time you can get on a > non-smartphone. On top of that you don't get gouged & ripped off on > excessive charges from your wireless company. And without all that useless > cruft, you'll find the phone can actually still make and receive phone calls, > which is what a phone is for anyway.
This is the sort of quandary I find myself in all the time. There's times where I don't want to bring my typical "data-device" (an iPad) with me, and it's nice to be able to just check an e-mail quickly while sitting in a concert venue, or whatever. But I really do miss like the simplicity of the old RAZR phones which had a battery lifetime of "forever and then some" and - as a phone - were far superior in quality to anything a smartphone can do. The perfect-world product for me would be a RAZR-like phone (simple) that could hotspot for some other device in a pinch if need be, paired with something like a WiFi-only iPod Touch or some mythical Wifi only Android-based phone-sized device. So you wouldn't need another "contracted device" but that if you were going somewhere you wanted data-access you could get it as well. D _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 3 - Scala - 100th MHVLUG meeting Sep 7 - DIY 3D Printing and the Makerbot Thing-o-Matic Oct 5 - Distributed Authentication Systems
