Cell Phones - Blessing or a Curse?

[3930dave]

Re: Cell Phones - Blessing or a Curse?

The work phone is a Android Moto G5 plus 7.0

Don't have anything bad to say about it... nothing really to compare it to but I do know friends with Apple phones plug them in every night.

On mine, just to be safe, I plug it in about every 5 days.

No Data Plan so WiFi only for data.

Battery life.... that's a big issue for me, and is one of the key things I look for in a phone.... I'm not interested in having to charge every day. You are doing well with that Moto, but no data is helping battery runtime too....

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

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Years back, I bought a thing that needed to be delivered by truck. That day I got a call from the driver telling me he'd be here in a few minutes. I asked him where he was. Once he told me, I asked him what route he was planning on taking. When he told me, I said' Nuh-Uh. You can't get here from there. There ain't no bridge on that road across the river. Ain't never been a bridge, ain't never gonna be a bridge.'

All he knew was that the mapping system showed a state highway route number, but no details.

Various gps stories out there, this one is one of the worst....

Albert Chretien: Remains of Canadian lost in Nevada wilderness found six miles from town 18 months later | Daily Mail Online

I remember that happening.... several years later, the picture of that Astro/Safari van with running boards stuck off-road is still fresh in my mind.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Re: Cell Phones - Blessing or a Curse?

So, does anybody use them for ..... you know ..... calling people?

Only when I want to tell somebody about a great new App I found

Most of the higher end phones are still OK, but some of the low-end phones have pretty poor audio - in a budget design, with text and data a higher priority, not many pennies gets allocated for audio...

Flex-functionality in a smartphone lets it do an endless # of tasks; we've hit on just a few in this thread. They are more popular as portable computers than audio devices today.

Sometimes they change, even when you don't want/need them to...... last update on mine radically changed how the camera zoom was activated.

I'm pretty good at sorting out most forms of tech..... I do get slightly irritated when a key feature changes mostly "Just because We Can......".

Rgds, D.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Just having google maps for traffic is worth having one. I saw a huge backup on the interstate the other day, i was able to get off ahead of it and go around. On my detour i saw the interstate stopped for miles, and no way for them to escape. Saved me at least a couple hrs. I use it daily.

 

[Diggin It]

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Just having google maps for traffic is worth having one. I saw a huge backup on the interstate the other day, i was able to get off ahead of it and go around. On my detour i saw the interstate stopped for miles, and no way for them to escape. Saved me at least a couple hrs. I use it daily.

Paper maps did that for decades. And you (probably) won't get cited for using one while driving.

 

[Industrial Toys]

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Paper maps helped avoid congestion? Really?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Paper maps did that for decades. And you (probably) won't get cited for using one while driving.

Never had a paper map show me there was a backup ahead.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Re: Cell Phones - Blessing or a Curse?

Maybe that's what the ketchup stains mean.

 

[/pine]

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CB radio with side band for the latest, greatest traffic conditions...!

 

[Jstpssng]

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Various gps stories out there, this one is one of the worst....

Albert Chretien: Remains of Canadian lost in Nevada wilderness found six miles from town 18 months later | Daily Mail Online

I remember that happening.... several years later, the picture of that Astro/Safari van with running boards stuck off-road is still fresh in my mind.

Rgds, D.

I have to say that story was told many times before the advent of GPS and/or cell phones. We had a few years where it seemed that every December when it started snowing somebody would have to go exploring and wouldn't make it back. I travel a lot of marginal roads and am set up for most situations; yet you wouldn't believe the people that I see in the darnedest places and find myself wondering what they would do if they got in trouble. On one occasion I was 20 miles in the woods on roads that were so icy that I had sanded the approaches to all of the bridges; I thought I was the only person for miles yet one day I met a Chevy sedan with handicapped plates, and some old guy just out "exploring." On another occasion I had chained up and beaten a path up a snow covered road, and kept it packed down so that I could get to where I was working. One day I was headed out and met a Subaru on a hill. He thought that I was going to pull over and let him go by.
It didn't happen... I would still be there.