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[telecom] Re:

Mr Joseph Singer

04-06-2008

Sam Spade

Posted by Mr Joseph Singer on April 6, 2008, 11:05 am

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Bill, the temporary moderator wrote:

<<<RANT>
I haven't bought a Blackberry or an iPhone, and I probably won't buy
the Google version, either. What gets my goat with these products is
how they're not content to sell me a device, but instead demand that I
subscribe to a "service" provided by someone they're in bed with, and
pay a monthly fee for the rest of my life when I'd be perfectly
content to do without mobile email and just have an address book.

It seems to me that every company in the consumer market is drooling
at the thought of getting an annuity from every product they sell, be
it a "service contract" or an "extended warranty" or email forwarding
to a cell phone. Nobody wants to sell _things_ anymore: they want to
attach themselves to my bank account and automatically withdraw
tribute like an electronic leach that I can never remove.

I'm still stuck in the "dark ages" of having a separate Palm Pilot and
an ordinary cell phone, but I'm content with it because I'll be damned
if I contribute to someone's retirement annuity just to get an address
book built into the phone.
</RANT>>>

Well, as they say different strokes for different folks. What may be
superfluous or unnecessary to you is absolutely necessary to someone
else. Lucky for you that there are many choices with just basic
vanilla phones for folks who want 'em and tricked out ponies for those
who think that they have to have it. Most all mobile phones that I'm
aware of have address book functionality. Many people want more than
that and lucky for them the manufacturers make units just for them as
well as for those who want absolutely the minimum. As for "selling you
a service" some people have to have it whether it's DSL, FiOS or cable.
Sure they could keep "dial-up" service, but that's been relegated to
the pile of history pretty much as well.

Some people (quite a lot actually) want a mobile phone just for making
voice calls. Others want to be able to have email, view the web or any
number of other things. Interstingly enough an "advanced" mobile phone
system (actually Advanced Mobile Phone System or AMPS) was just
decomissioned a month or so ago. Things march on!

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Posted by Sam Spade on April 6, 2008, 4:04 pm

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Mr Joseph Singer wrote:

> Some people (quite a lot actually) want a mobile phone just for making

> voice calls. Others want to be able to have email, view the web or any

> number of other things. Interstingly enough an "advanced" mobile phone

> system (actually Advanced Mobile Phone System or AMPS) was just

> decomissioned a month or so ago. Things march on!

I've heard AMPS referred to before as the analog cellular system. But,
my understanding was AMPS was the system of divisible cell cites, with
automatic hand-offs controlled by the switch. Analog RF was the
technology at the time. But, going to digital, time-division RF seems
to have been an enhancement to AMPS, not a replacement of the
fundamental system.

Posted by T on April 6, 2008, 9:48 pm

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joeofseattle@yahoo.com says...

> Bill, the temporary moderator wrote:

> <<<RANT>

> I haven't bought a Blackberry or an iPhone, and I probably won't buy

> the Google version, either. What gets my goat with these products is

> how they're not content to sell me a device, but instead demand that I

> subscribe to a "service" provided by someone they're in bed with, and

> pay a monthly fee for the rest of my life when I'd be perfectly

> content to do without mobile email and just have an address book.

The Google Android phone intriques me. I want one that can do SSH, maybe
use a MySQL database on it, etc. Should have web browsing and IM
capability. Hell I don't even care if it does voice.

Matter of fact, I think E-911 should be text/IM capable.

Any fan of The I.T. Crowd knows you can email emergency services. :)

***** Moderator's Note *****

I bet it'd get caught in their spam filter ...

Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator

(Please put [Telecom] at the end of the subject line of your post, or
I may never see it. Thanks!)

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