Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
Sure...augering is a little ill chosen rhetoric ...but I have seen a pic of the fone and it sure fills a big hand and thensome ...hand sized tablets should be called that ...even my thinkpad x31 can function as a fone although it is not stylish up to my ear... -Original Message- From: phartz...@gmail.com [mailto:phartz...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 8:56 AM To: rleesimon Subject: Re: Phones and guys, even Computer Guys On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote: The new google fone is a big brick ...I have seen it described as a trough ...sounds like it's just what you are augerin'4 ...rush right down to your T-Mobile store to get on line... ha! Well, I was not arguing for it. I was just pointing out a little observation about guys and phones and testosterone. Portable phones are on their way to getting bigger. The manufacturers gotta find a way to sell new stuff. These phones are much like clothing styles in regards to how to sell more of them. Hemlines go up, then they go down, then they go up again. Earth tones are in, then earth tones are out, then back in again. I am sure that within a couple or so years, we will see cell phones being carried in shoulder bags as bag phones of the 70's and early 80's were, but they won't really be cell phones as much as they will be tablet computers being marketed as cell phones. Manufacturers will most assuredly come up with a new name for these things. They will also claim that they are only responding to consumer demand, as if consumers actually run and dictate policy to their design and engineering departments. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote: As a PRACTICAL matter, a small cellphone fits more easily into a pocket, especially if you're wearing snug bluejeans. A small cellphone also doesn't make you look geeky--you don't have to have one of those dorky cellphone cases attached to your belt to conveniently carry your cellphone (as you probably did in cellphone prehistory, in the 1990's). I agree that small can be handy when carting something around. However, since most cell phone users today deal more with text messaging than they do with talking on their phones, that smallness can present a problem. Still, I find it amusing how phone manufacturers found a way to capitalize on feminine side of guydom when it comes to cell phones. Not only are cell phones status symbols, or bling, as you have said, they are also considered as being virtually a masculine necessity, as in don't leave home without one. The marketing of cell phones is absolutely riddled with testosterone. It is just difficult for me to imagine how a device that is so tiny as to be easily held between two fingers has become symbolic of all that is manly. Gosh, what would Ashley Montagu have had to say about this turn of events? Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
I can recall cell phones being at their smallest about 10 years ago. At the time, people would have desktop chargers at the office, with a cradle for the little phone. It seems to me that increased functionality has reversed the trend. On 1/8/10, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote: I agree that small can be handy when carting something around. However, since most cell phone users today deal more with text messaging than they do with talking on their phones, that smallness can present a problem. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
At 09:34 PM 1/7/2010, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: -- WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. You got that right! Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of other folks besides the NSA who are doing it. Nothing you do on the Internet has any expectation of privacy. They do it whether it's legal or not, and no one (no law enforcement agency) cares a whit about stopping them. Fred Holmes * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
The new google fone is a big brick ...I have seen it described as a trough ...sounds like it's just what you are augerin'4 ...rush right down to your T-Mobile store to get on line... ha! -Original Message- From: phartz...@gmail.com [mailto:phartz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:35 PM Subject: Phones and guys, even Computer Guys Anyone remember the Princess Phone? Remember how guys would have nothing to do with one of those. Guys would rather walk three blocks to a pay phone back in the day if their only other choice was to use a Princess Phone. Their problem? It was a size thing. No real guy was going to use a small little phone for anything other than throwing one across a room. These days, guys are obsessed with getting the teeniest, tiniest, most mini-demi Princessy Phone they can get their manicured hands on. Just an observation. So what happened? Steve -- WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
Anyone remember the Princess Phone? Remember how guys would have nothing to do with one of those. Guys would rather walk three blocks to a pay phone back in the day if their only other choice was to use a Princess Phone. Their problem? It was a size thing. No real guy was going to use a small little phone for anything other than throwing one across a room. These days, guys are obsessed with getting the teeniest, tiniest, most mini-demi Princessy Phone they can get their manicured hands on. Just an observation. So what happened? Steve -- WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
Odd, isn't it, those teeny tiny cellphones? I just finished watching an episode of The Mentalist--which has some of the best writing on network TV--in which the big biker gang members, in full biker regalia and built like brick outhouses, are using dainty little cellphones to conduct their biker-gang criminal enterprises. (The TV audience is expected to accept this as realistic and true-to-life.) As a PRACTICAL matter, a small cellphone fits more easily into a pocket, especially if you're wearing snug bluejeans. A small cellphone also doesn't make you look geeky--you don't have to have one of those dorky cellphone cases attached to your belt to conveniently carry your cellphone (as you probably did in cellphone prehistory, in the 1990's). And these days, microminiature gadgets of all kinds are status symbols, in part because the latest model of anything is likely to be smaller and to have more functions--and possibly better design. And you can always secretly pretend that your flip-phone is a Communicator, if your favorite Star Trek is Star Trek Classic. (Which mine is; it's dated, of course, but Classic had some of the best writing and acting available at the time, which is more than some of the later series and movies can say. Especially the latest Star Trek movie, which doesn't even PRETEND to be SCIENCE fiction. It turns out that the current producers have made a conscious decision to keep science per se out of the movies and books. Hand- waving is so much more fun!) --Constance Warner --Constance Warner On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:34 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone remember the Princess Phone? Remember how guys would have nothing to do with one of those. Guys would rather walk three blocks to a pay phone back in the day if their only other choice was to use a Princess Phone. Their problem? It was a size thing. No real guy was going to use a small little phone for anything other than throwing one across a room. These days, guys are obsessed with getting the teeniest, tiniest, most mini-demi Princessy Phone they can get their manicured hands on. Just an observation. So what happened? Steve -- WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. ** *** ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http:// www.cguys.org/ ** ** *** * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Phones and guys, even Computer Guys
I'm sure there have been others...but the last true sci fi movie I can think of was Gatica. As far acting/writing went, I'd put DS9 up there with the best...nothing like Hawk commanding a base station. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Constance Warner cawar...@his.com wrote: And you can always secretly pretend that your flip-phone is a Communicator, if your favorite Star Trek is Star Trek Classic. (Which mine is; it's dated, of course, but Classic had some of the best writing and acting available at the time, which is more than some of the later series and movies can say. Especially the latest Star Trek movie, which doesn't even PRETEND to be SCIENCE fiction. It turns out that the current producers have made a conscious decision to keep science per se out of the movies and books. Hand-waving is so much more fun!) --Constance Warner * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
