On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Guilherme Lino <guih.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:25 PM, David Tweed <david.tw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Guilherme Lino <guih.l...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > i would recomend a cheap phone, that make calls and sends smSs.. >> > >> > whene you dont have your pc, read a book.. i think thats the most >> > suckless >> > way >> >> A "smart phone" makes sense in certain circumstances. I have an old >> mobile phone which just does voice/SMS, and normally the things I do >> in my life fit with this, However, I'm currently looking to move to a >> new area, which means I'm stuck with informal rentals websites that >> insist on hiding people's details behind their web-based message >> interfaces, wanting to look up an awful lot of stuff (maps, bus >> routes, local taxis, train times, etc). It would make my life a lot >> easier if I could rent a smartphone for just the one month I need it, >> transferring my existing number temporarily. Unfortunately that's not >> a supported business model in mobile phones. >> >> I can imagine there are other people with lifestyles where a >> smartphone makes sense constantly, eg, those people who genuinely >> enjoy facebook and doing all that networking stuff while on the move. >> (In general, I'm always a bit surprised how it seems to be perceived >> to be suckless to proscribe the user-level tasks that are allowed. How >> those are implemented yes, but saying that classes of activity are not >> acceptable?) On the other hand, I'd certainly agree that many people >> seem to have gone for smartphones because it's the cool new thing >> rather than because their usage is best fitted by a smartphone. >> >> >> -- >> cheers, dave tweed__________________________ >> computer vision reasearcher: david.tw...@gmail.com >> "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- >> attempted insult seen on slashdot >> > > you could try a cheap phone and a cheap tablet > and personally a person that spends more than a hour a on facebook doing > "stuff"(talk to friends doesn't count) must have some kind of problem
The point is that a cheap phone and cheap tablet DOESN'T fit what I need to do at the moment. I don't need a big screen at the moment just a temporary 3G data plan (so taht that I can access info and services in the middle of nowhere) with a phone sized display, which unfortunately doesn't exist. Even if I could get a temporary 3G tablet it would be less useful when I'm trying to run out of the office and look at a place during my lunch hour. (I'm sure there are situations where a tablet makes sense, but they seem to be "couch based" rather than mobile.) I'm not saying you should have a smartphone, just that I don't see how the logic "I don't have a use for a smartphone, therefore no-one at all should have one" works. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ computer vision reasearcher: david.tw...@gmail.com "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot
