Out of the loop - don't judge me!

Daveysil15

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I'm not getting a smart phone. Ever. Not unless normal run-of-the-mill phones become obsolete and I'm forced to buy one. The reason? I don't want or need one. I've got the most basic of Nokia phones and it's perfect for my needs. It's got Snake, a flashlight, a little calendar to note down birthdays and Shark Week and it can text and make phone calls. It also has a ringtone sounds like a baby giggling and who doesn't love a (cute not ugly) baby? I'm happy as Larry!

Yeah but just imagine snake in colour on a bright HD screen. Nah what ever works for ya. I only got a smart phone recently because my old one which I had for 3 years broke, and I didn't like the look of the new non-smart phones. It's a basic one though and I don't bother using it for bookface or twitter or any of that shyte. Calls, texts and mp3's - that's all I want.

Legs.Eleven

Steve O wrote: »

Same as, brilliant on the bus if you are stuck in a traffic jam. Plus the fact that they double as a music player.

So is a book and an mp3 player.

P_1

Who cares what other people think op

Yitzhak Rabin

My friends and I have a rule when we go out to dinner. We leave our phones on the table and if anyone checks theirs during the course of the meal they have to pay for everyone. Good way of getting peoples face out of their phones.

Steve O

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

So is a book and an mp3 player.

Mp3 player?! ohhhh look at you.:p

Liamario

You are single-handedly holding back technological progress. tut tut tut

I would even go as far to say that if people like you were in the majority, we'd still be without electricity.

Daveysil15

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I sound like an old fuddy-duddy when I say I think they're destroying face-to-ace interaction. I see every teenage person with their faces stuck in it constantly and I wonder what the future holds. There has to come a point when we say "enough is enough" and I think we're well beyond that point at this stage.

Some people just live their lives online, face buried in the phone. It makes it difficult when you're trying to ask them for a shift.

Gorilla Rising

Sofiztikated wrote: »

So you have what, actual conversations with people?

How do you instagram pictures of mediocre food, while saying its the best meal evarrrrr?

How do you take selfies with your besties?

Can you actually find your way anywhere?

How can you breathe without an app to remind you?

People are the problem here, not smartphones.

dark crystal wrote: »

It's spelled they're.

No spellcheck on that smartphone of yours? For shame!

Spelled? If you're going to be a grammar nazi at least get it right.

Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

My friends and I have a rule when we go out to dinner. We leave our phones on the table and if anyone checks theirs during the course of the meal they have to pay for everyone. Good way of getting peoples face out of their phones.

Why have such a silly annoying rule, you wouldn't get a rule like that among my friends how can people keep up to date on things?

Spunge

what ****ing sucks abotu smartphones is you have to charge them EVERY DAY. i only got one for the first time a few weeks ago and its a pain in the ass. my old phone would last a few weeks without charging, i think ill still use it as my phone and use the smartphone well not even as a phone just as a smart.

tacofries

Get with the times woman!!!

Posted from iphone

Mr Benevolent

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

you probably get better battery life too

With antibiotics? Definitely.

dark crystal

fortune wookiee wrote: »

Spelled? If you're going to be a grammar nazi at least get it right.

http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/spell

I did.

Koptain Liverpool

joetoad wrote: »

So you like yo check your facebook, respond to emails, check sport scores is avoiding real life hmmm. Brace yourselfs the high horses are coming saying its stupid to have a smart phone and shud replace it with a nokia 3210. bahaha

I check facebook, respond to emails and check sport scores when I'm on the internet at home. When I'm not at home I talk to people and have fun with my friends. You probably have no friends (teenage thai ladyboys on facebook don't count) so it probably is best you have a smartphone to have something to keep you occupied when sitting in the pub alone.

woodoo

I don't have one either, mainly because the battery on my current phone lasts about a week and anyone i know with a smart phone is charging it everyday. I couldn't be bothered with that hassle.

Ruu

Nokia 6310i, great job. Snake, calculator, text, call, triband. All I need.

woodoo

joetoad wrote: »

Once you go black you'll never go back!

Thats racist and i'm outraged. Page 32 of the PC bible forbids such utterances.

_Kaiser_

woodoo wrote: »

I don't have one either, mainly because the battery on my current phone lasts about a week and anyone i know with a smart phone is charging it everyday. I couldn't be bothered with that hassle.

It's not a hassle.. charge it overnight when you go to bed?

I have a Galaxy Note 2 and it's fantastic. Best phone I've owned yet (having come from the Note 1, Galaxy S2, HTC etc)

Battery lasts about a day and a half with medium-heavy usage.. and I'm not into FB either.

irish bloke

Koptain Liverpool wrote: »

I care! I agree with the OP and find it interesting to discuss.

Maybe you need to get a smartphone too, then you wouldn't be so bored as to care abt the OP wanting one or not.

I agree on people checking their phones during a meal or something.
If you're expecting someone on their way or something that's actually important and you clarify and explain and don't do it again, fine, but sitting there with your face in it is rude

Mr Benevolent

bluewolf wrote: »

I agree on people checking their phones during a meal or something.
If you're expecting someone on their way or something that's actually important and you clarify and explain and don't do it again, fine, but sitting there with your face in it is rude

Yup, I agree. Actually between all my closest friend (there's only three of them) none of us will do more than glance at our phones unless we get a text or call and even then we won't respond to a text.

PizzamanIRL

Once my phone can text and ring people, that's all I want. I don't need all the other fancy over priced things. I understand some people need the internet anywhere they go and email etc. but I can't understand how people spend 600 quid on iPhones. Crazy.

Agricola

Don't need one, but I would probably get a lot of use out of one. Just couldnt fork out that kind of cash for a phone.

I can understand the OP's point here. I've always been immersed in technology, to the point that if I decided I wasn't going to go online that day I'd be thinking "well what else is there to do?" It's terrible.

woodoo

woodoo wrote: »

I don't have one either, mainly because the battery on my current phone lasts about a week and anyone i know with a smart phone is charging it everyday. I couldn't be bothered with that hassle.

I dont understand this, I have a charger plugged in beside my bed and every night I hop into bed and just turn over and plug the phone in and leave it on the bed beside me, how this is hassle I don't know, it takes about a second to do it.

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Up till about 2 years ago no one batted an eyelid but now people openly laugh at me and my phone and now they have a right auld gawk at it like I've taken out a tube of thrush cream to make a phone call on.

Once I fished my phone out of my bag to take a call, but it wasn't my phone.

I was trying to talk into one of those 3 packs of Tampax you get from the vending machine in the ladies. Not only that, but I was wondering why no one was replying.

Mr Benevolent

I am judging you, OP.

Legs.Eleven

P_1 wrote: »

Who cares what other people think op

It's not so much caring as wondering why others are so concerned about what kind of phone I used. The funny thing is, the same people only changed over recently enough but suddenly the scoffing (love that word) starts once they get one.

Candie wrote: »

Once I fished my phone out of my bag to take a call, but it wasn't my phone.

I was trying to talk into one of those 3 packs of Tampax you get from the vending machine in the ladies. Not only that, but I was wondering why no one was replying.

Haha!!


Went into my class today and I had to tell 3 grown adults to get off their fcuking phones and at least pretend to be interested for one hour out of their measly lives. It's the height of rudeness. The HEIGHT!!

joetoad

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

It's not so much caring as wondering why others are so concerned about what kind of phone I used. The funny thing is, the same people only changed over recently enough but suddenly the scoffing (love that word) starts once they get one.



Haha!!


Went into my class today and I had to tell 3 grown adults to get off their fcuking phones and at least pretend to be interested for one hour out of their measly lives. It's the height of rudeness. The HEIGHT!!

you must lead an interesting life if petty things like that annoy you.

Legs.Eleven

joetoad wrote: »

you must lead an interesting life if petty things like that annoy you.

Oh believe me, this is only the tip of the iceberg. I've a long list of pointless shyt that gets on my tits.

Toby Take a Bow

I got one recently because my old phone was on the way out and it didn't cost that much (it's a fairly cheap basic smart phone). I was worried about being constantly connected to the internet, but, to be honest, I find I spend less time on the internet than more. I rarely check my laptop, and when I do, it's only for specific things. I also find I can leave my phone at home, and don't check it as often. Not sure why that is, but on the whole, it's a lot better. In addition to this, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than my old phone (options for free calls, free texts etc).

The etiquette with smart phones and old phones should always be the same, however: no checking of it whatsoever in company, unless someone is expecting an important phonecall.

NegativeCreep

They are one of the handiest and most useful inventions ever. It's your loss.

Legs.Eleven

NegativeCreep wrote: »

They are one of the handiest and most useful inventions ever. It's your loss.

You can't miss what you never had.

joetoad

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

You can't miss what you never had.

Oh Lord, not this tripe.

Legs.Eleven

joetoad wrote: »

Oh Lord, not this tripe.

For a man who doesn't give a shit and accuses others of having no life, you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time on this thread.

joetoad

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

For a man who doesn't give a shit and accuses others of having no life, you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time on this thread.

I also just took a massive dump

Miss Lockhart

joetoad wrote: »

I also just took a massive dump

You have an unhealthy obsession with sharing your bathroom habits. There used to be somebody else round here who did the same. Think they're banned now.

It's been done. Get over it.

joetoad

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

You have an unhealthy obsession with sharing your bathroom habits. There used to be somebody else round here who did the same. Think they're banned now.

It's been done. Get over it.

Okay, whatever you say x;)

woodoo

Chris Witty Resort wrote: »

I dont understand this, I have a charger plugged in beside my bed and every night I hop into bed and just turn over and plug the phone in and leave it on the bed beside me, how this is hassle I don't know, it takes about a second to do it.

What about the cost is it sore on electricity?

Daveysil15

And people thought this was going to be the future... Weird Nokia.jpg

bodice ripper

I thought the new trendy thing was to have a Nokia 3210 and denounce smartphones...?

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

You can't miss what you never had.

Besides you're not out of the loop, you're retro.

And it's not an old phone, it's vintage.

Fox_In_Socks

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

You can't miss what you never had.

Not even *sniff* love?:(

I don't have a smartphone either. I have a very basic Nokia that's a good few years old now and has an excellent battery that lasts about a week and a half. So far, it's been indestructible as well, being hopped off rocks while hiking and working grand once I put it back together.

I have a bit of an addictive personality, so I can see myself not doing any work whatsoever and looking at the iPhone all day. At some stage, it will be easier to have one than not have one, and I shall have to upgrade then as that is the way everything is moving, where doing anything at all, such as paying a parking meter ticket to grocery shopping will be paid through devices, but until that day, I shall soldier on.

Brave and stalwart, till the end.

srfc19

This thread reminds me of that old joke.

How do you know someone doesnt have an Iphone??

They tell you.

Steve O

Candie wrote: »

Besides you're not out of the loop, you're retro.

And it's not an old phone, it's vintage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

krudler

Spunge wrote: »

what ****ing sucks abotu smartphones is you have to charge them EVERY DAY. i only got one for the first time a few weeks ago and its a pain in the ass. my old phone would last a few weeks without charging, i think ill still use it as my phone and use the smartphone well not even as a phone just as a smart.

Weeks? bullsh1t, even on standby with zero use a phone battery would die after 6-7 days, I have an old sony phone thats only used as a second alarm (I have snooze button issues) and that gets about a week max with no use on it bar the alarm going off.

Legs.Eleven

krudler wrote: »

Weeks? bullsh1t, even on standby with zero use a phone battery would die after 6-7 days, I have an old sony phone thats only used as a second alarm (I have snooze button issues) and that gets about a week max with no use on it bar the alarm going off.

A week is still better than a smart phone

Larianne

I'm with ya, sista!

Battery lasts longer than most relationships these days!

Fox_In_Socks

Larianne wrote: »

I'm with ya, sista!

Battery lasts longer than most relationships these days!

Ahm....for which device?

:pac:

woodoo

I am pay as you go and i just priced the galaxy note 2 to see if i could be tempted - €600 :eek: