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After resisting as long as I could, I finally FINALLY made the move to a smartphone. Like the rest of the people I know, I can now communicate without ever having to call or receive calls. (Took me hours just to figure out how to answer a call, in fact.) Heck, my new phone even comes with a voice-to-text feature, which is hilarious but interesting. Leave me a voice message and I'll see a text version of it that bears at least some relation to the words you spoke....
Here it is, a Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G, through CREDO long distance:
I kinda like the recursive nature of this shot: The phone is in the login screen, which uses face recognition (failed here because of the camera in front of my face), against a poster of a Saturn V rocket booster diagram. This replaces my Sanyo Katana phone, which hasn't rung consistently for months:
That was the hot thing in 2005 when I got it. I have an unhealthy relationship with that thing, what with its having survived two trips through the washer, one through the dryer, a night frozen in a parking-lot puddle, another night in muck that shall go unspoken beneath a bar's porch, countless drops - including a couple from my pocket at scooter speed, and so on. The vibrate function still works (mostly), and I can still call out just fine, but texting was a giant PITA (can you say tap three times and wait two seconds before entering the next letter? I can, and will not again), and it seldom let me know someone was calling.
End of an era. I'm sad about this, really. I mean, the poor little thing just kept going, despite all the abuse it survived. Notice how the photo, above, was taken atop my heavy bag? Fitting. And that was from a year ago; you should see it now, with part of a flamed Hot Rodding Magazine sticker holding the battery-cover in place.
Goodbye, sweet Katana, you have served me well. *sigh*
Anyhow, now you may feel free to text me without worrying about wearing out my fingertips. Or even call, now that I figured out how to answer ;-)
Chris
Here it is, a Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G, through CREDO long distance:
I kinda like the recursive nature of this shot: The phone is in the login screen, which uses face recognition (failed here because of the camera in front of my face), against a poster of a Saturn V rocket booster diagram. This replaces my Sanyo Katana phone, which hasn't rung consistently for months:
That was the hot thing in 2005 when I got it. I have an unhealthy relationship with that thing, what with its having survived two trips through the washer, one through the dryer, a night frozen in a parking-lot puddle, another night in muck that shall go unspoken beneath a bar's porch, countless drops - including a couple from my pocket at scooter speed, and so on. The vibrate function still works (mostly), and I can still call out just fine, but texting was a giant PITA (can you say tap three times and wait two seconds before entering the next letter? I can, and will not again), and it seldom let me know someone was calling.
End of an era. I'm sad about this, really. I mean, the poor little thing just kept going, despite all the abuse it survived. Notice how the photo, above, was taken atop my heavy bag? Fitting. And that was from a year ago; you should see it now, with part of a flamed Hot Rodding Magazine sticker holding the battery-cover in place.
Goodbye, sweet Katana, you have served me well. *sigh*
Anyhow, now you may feel free to text me without worrying about wearing out my fingertips. Or even call, now that I figured out how to answer ;-)
Chris
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Smartphones are great! I was a skeptic for a while, but I'm a full-blown convert now.
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With the max power savings from the Powermaster, I get maybe 52 hours.
--Hawk
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Yup.
They also have an alternative keyboard that works OK, too.
--Hawk
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monthswell over a year.Fixed that for you.
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I'm a little afraid of what this means for how much more available I'm about to become....
(He says, cleverly having left the phone at home so as not to be distracted at work.)
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The only reason i considered switching to a smartphone was for the better camera which is what I actually use my phone for the most. My FlipShot was teh shit as far as camera when it came out, but nowadays its little 3mp v. the 8mp on most smartphones is sad. But I can't make the switch to a phone too big to put down my boot! Maybe when the next droid razr comes out (which will probably be soon since it just cleared fcc), because it will have an even better camera.
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Speaking of photos, smartphones have tons of applications to download that enhance photography, and I fully intend to try these out. At the Venus transit viewing last spring, a guy took a 360-degree panorama of my telescope and the field around by simply shooting all the way around and then using an app to stitch them into a single shot. COOL BEANZ.
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I suppose I'd lean more toward a smart phone if i didn't have a netbook. But, I'm not one of those people who has to be online all the time or even most of the time for fun (to differentiate from 'for work') so I'm fine with the netbook and just bring that with me if i'm going to be somewhere i know I'll want internet for an extended time. So, I'd probably never be without that again, if I could help it (be without the ability to mobile internet). But for my phone ... I'm not willing to give up tiny size in order to check facebook, or my email, or whatever. (and like you mentioned above, my phone also has limited internet capabilities already so I could check a movie time or whatever, if I had to.) When they make a smartphone the size of my flip phone that I can slip into my boot and not have to carry, I'm in*! :)
**or, as i said, when the RAZR HD comes out, because I might be swayed big time by the 13 megapixel camera...
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Yeah, mine is set up to save photos straight to the memory card so if I want them off off (other than txting them somewhere, like off for archiving and/or printing and/or editing and/or etc.) then I just pop the card out, pop it in the card reader and bam!
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Jbird broke his screen two days after he got his phone, and is now on a temp go-phone until it comes back; estimated time of delivery, 3-4 weeks. :(
Apps! Apps rule! Once you get used to it, Swype is da shiznitz for texting.. and you can now have a fancy lil voice assistant, too. I'm testing them out on mine right now.. Assistant was first, now Skyvi is on.
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The first app I downloaded was the Google Sky Map, of course! Super-useful and cool; I've considered making a mount to put the phone (or tablet) onto my telescope to help point at astro-objects!
DEFINITELY going to get a protective cover and screen guard, as I got for my tablet. That one's just rubber, but protects the device if dropped without making it too much thicker.
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Swype gets smarter the more you use it, plus there are a few tips and setting changes that help.
Have you checked out a forum on it yet? I've found lots of interesting stuff that the manual doesn't mention on them.
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Oh! and BitPim can get your photos off your old phone with a USB cord.
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