Yeah, no doubt, it's a sweet look gadget. I would want it mainly to browse the web anywhere, e-mail, IM, and phone service.

I HATE handies.

Accept them only for things related to emergencies (being available for ill persons who may need to call for help, etc.). Beyond that, they are a plague. Mobile internet? Sounds like a threat to me.

And 500$ only? For a tenth of that I get a decent wire-telephone with telephone book and integrated digital answering machine. The advantage is that these things stay at home when I leave, and will not kill my and other people's nerves on the wrong moment.

's wird sowieso schon vielzuviel Quatsch geschnattert!

But for sentimental reasons I would accept one of those portable mini-vid-phones they used in Moonbase Alpha 1. :D

I'd certainly settle for one of those :yep:
Mind you, it took me 3 months to fully understand how to use my Blackberry so I'd probably need a couple of years :lol:

You're kidding, right? How do you feel about ladders? Should only be used on construction sites? :hmm:

If you ask me, all these iSomethings are overrated. I really cant understand all the fuzz. I'm happy with my current Nokia mobile and I also have a cheap 512mb Mp3 player. And that's enough for me. :yep:

No kidding. Believe it or not, both in the house where I live and in the house that my family owns, we have no ladders, but stairs. ;)

I simply feel annoyed and angry when I have a walk outside, or I am in the supermarket, or something else, then somebody calls me and expects me to spend time with him no matter the situation I am in. He should call me at home. If I am not at home, he will call again. If he doesn't, then it wasn't important. End of story. I even do not switch on my answering machine most time when I leave.

And as I already said: there is much too much silly talking going on anyway. :D

The Nokia N91 has 8Gb of storage too
And 3G technology

:roll:

Will stick with that thanks

That's a pretty good comeback, about the stairs :rotfl: But it's not going to help you when you need to change a light bulb or clean the gutters.

You must be one of the last people in Western Civ to feel that having someone call you to talk is rude. I agree, there is a LOT of silly talk, stupid by my standards, where people feel they have to be on their phones with someone, yak-yakking, "...so what did she say? Oh yeah?" But hey, we can get into a whole 'nother discussion about useful and wasting time.

But, in reality, the mobile phone is very useful. Don't you ever go to meet someone, and then after a while, maybe you need directions, or maybe they do not show up (and they need directions, lol)... without a mobile, you have to go home and call to see what happened. Very wasteful.

Or you and your kids split up at a large sports complex... or you are meeting a friend at the same place, with thousands of people around...man, having a mobile is great.

Or your girlfriend calls you and asks you to pick up some stuff for the kitchen on your way over (bear with me, this is actually a good thing), so you dutifully drop by the supermarket and get whatever, and then get rewarded later for being so thoughtful.

Or your office calls and they need some info? I mean, you know it is important to assist whenever possible. It's your job we're talking about here.

Welllll.... no one says you have to answer it. Ignore his calls a few times, he won't call you anymore in the future ;)

Never happened to me so far. Call i good preparation, I LOVE good preparation. Got lost three times only, every time in soe good-fporsaken ME place, a handy wouldn't have been of helpt, but I had a map and a compass. :lol:

No kids over here, except me.

If my girlfriend calls me, then I would be really scared to death, for she is no more.

After the end of my shift, I'm private. Basta. But that may come from the nature of the only payed job I am currently doing, which is by far no "career-mode".

Point is, Neal, I do not like telephoning in general. It'S like a communication quicky. People do not spend time to write a letter, and do not take time to spend a visit. Telephoning compares to letters or visits like a cigarette to slowly preparing and smoking a pipe, or a cigar, or 3 minutes to a full night. And beyond that, it simply irritates me to talk to some stranger I cannot see and whom I cannot watch into the eyes to see what he is telling me for real.

But as I said, in understand the practical use of a handy in emergancy-like scenarios. Or my mom, she is kind of ill, and when my father was not in the city, I had his cellphone so that she could call me if something happened. But beyond this pratcical situation, I personally have zero need for handies. Or electronic organizers. Or BlueTooth. Wireless connections (cable is safer and less electro-smogging anyway). My freinds and colleagues were laughing at me when always having a map and a compass with me, where they trust in GPS. Well, what should I say: one time their batteries failed, one time the thing simply was broken.

If I would need to buy a car, I wopuld try to get a very simple, mechnaicla one, leaving out electronical intricacies as much as possible. I probably wpuld end up with some russian-,made thing :lol:

Keeping habits simple made my whole life a bit more simple and less haunted by accidents and troubles deriving from broken equipement. Plus: I like to do manual stuff. HiTech automatism I only find attractive in simulations :D

Queer, eh? :rotfl: I even never boarded an airliner, only small planes not bigger than a Caravan. Longer distances i travelled by rail, sometimes car, and trade ships exclusively. Far more intense and detailed travelling experience, while flying completely leaves out the time component. It's like beaming: boring.

I'm an absolute Luddite! My cell phone is for talking, and then only to arrange a time to do it face-to-face. I'm perfectly happy with my...phone. It's not even a flip-phone!:cool:

Good for you Sailor Steve. Last time I went to get a mobile phone (after the 9 key went U/S on my old one, which was nearly ten years old) the 12 year-old that was attempting to serve me in the shop started bleating on something like this...

Shop person: 'this one has a 10 billion megapixel camera on it and it does your laundry for you and...'
Me: 'Can you make and receive calls on it?'
Shop person: 'What?'
Me: 'I came in for a phone, not a camera, I have a digital camera'
Shop person: 'Yes but..'
Me: 'If I want to take a photograph, I will use my camera, I don't want a phone that can take pictures, in the same way as I don't want a kettle that can record television programmes, am I getting through to you?'
Shop person: 'But...'
Me: 'bye'

Ten minutes later I bought a pay as you go phone in Tesco for 30 quid.

:D Chock

French civil servants and state officials have been forbidden to use Blackberrys for office communications, since their servers are located in the US and Britain and French government has been warned that this makes it easy for US intel to spy on internal information of the French government and departments.

But since you are Ancient British, you are forgiven. :smug:

Luddite? :D My wife and I are the only two people in California without cellphones.:D

She's taking our nephew to Disneyland when he comes for a visit this summer.

Someone said to her, how could she take a child all the way to Los Angeles without a cellphone.

Her answer. "In a car.":rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

:rotfl: That's great!

I refused to have one at all until I was in a situation where I couldn't use the landlady's phone, so I got one just to not bother her. I like it now just because it has a built-in phone book, so I don't have to look up friends' numbers or carry paper around.

I have at least one friend who still won't have one. He even hates to use his home phone except for absolutely necessary calls.