mobile phone

[big_cod]

Easiest thing to do is to visit a mobile phone shop tell the salesperson what you want and take it from there.

 

This topic could go on for a long time. And without doubt go WELLLLLLLLLLLLL

It's so easy plenty of handsets to chose from .

[wotnobivvy]

It's all a matter of horses for courses. I only ever want to use speech and text, and only when I am out. I put £45 on my PAYG phone in November 2015 and still have £18 left. I don't want to take photos, do my banking, or all the other things people have been brainwashed to do. My youngest daughter on the other hand has an all singing all dancing phone overloaded with apps and says she couldn't live without it. I must admit she uses an app to contact her mother whilst she is on a 18 month round the world holiday and that is free to use from a wifi point. I do all my serious work on a desktop pc

[Andrew]

Some kids take the phone to bed and text their mother to have the food ready because the kid/brat is getting up. Lazy gets need to get aa life and to start communicating with their parents minus a bloody mobile phone.

[big_cod]

Why you actually don't want a smart phone with internet when you allready acces anglers net through the internet just think you can actually view it on your smart phone wow ! ! all the jibbering and snipping you could keep up with all the action. .

[corydoras]

It's all a matter of horses for courses. I only ever want to use speech and text, and only when I am out. I put £45 on my PAYG phone in November 2015 and still have £18 left. I don't want to take photos, do my banking, or all the other things people have been brainwashed to do. My youngest daughter on the other hand has an all singing all dancing phone overloaded with apps and says she couldn't live without it. I must admit she uses an app to contact her mother whilst she is on a 18 month round the world holiday and that is free to use from a wifi point. I do all my serious work on a desktop pc

Tell me how does one have to be "brainwashed" into appreciating having a powerfull computer in one's back pocket.

 

I can use my phone as a quick spirit level and compass,flashlight, super accurate ruler. I can use Google Earth to help me look for new swims to fish. I have family in France, Australia and Japan that I can communicate with . I can point my phone at a heavenly body and my phone identify it for me. I can point my phone at the leaf or flower of any native plant or tree and my phone will tell me what it is. If I see a cool car or motorbike I can take a photo of it and share with my fellow petrol heads.

 

As an IT Engineer I find it a boon that I can take photos of the interior of an unfamliar piece of kit's innards before I rip it apart.

 

I did not need to be coerced, reprogrammed in any way to appreciate these things. I like having a bit of "Star Trek" in my back pocket.

 

PS Brainwashing is not a "thing". It does not exist.

http://www.cesnur.org/testi/melton.htm

[corydoras]

Is this the answer to your dreams Mr Tench?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39095127

[big_cod]

Nokia to bring back the 3310 phone basic phone long battery life simple to use probably one of the best robust phones ever made .

[Ken L]

There's a lot to be said for a simple, robust phone with massive battery life

I've had several over the years and currently have a Samsung that happily withstands being dropped, getting wet any being in my pocked when I'm falling on my ar5e.

Other than its robustness, its only other uses are acting as a flashlight, making calls and being employed to hit people with in hand to hand combat.

I've recently aquired a smartphone and it's great - but I know which one I'll be taking fishing with me.

Edited February 27, 2017 by Ken L

[Rusty]

.......I'm not sure why you would want a less capable device.

Because lots of people find them confusing and difficult to use. Some folk (me) prefer to hold a camera when they take pics and hold a receiver at the end of a long curly wire when they make phone calls . Aren't Nokia re-introducing a favoured classic mobile phone? Does it have a camera?

 

What I want is for somebody to develop a simple mobile device housed in a big old fashioned corded telephone. I think I'd be able to persuade my Mum to use one of those.

[barry luxton]

my nokia allows me to take and make calls, receive and send texts and it even has a flash light. No pics though and for that my monthly subscription is halved. Phone purchased for 16 quid and I was asked if I wanted to insure it, yer right. magic.

Edited February 27, 2017 by barry luxton