I have a new phone!!!

[etoven]

It's a Katana LX, and it produces gold out of thin air.....
And hot women who want to have sex with me... Who have giant knockers...

It can beam me orgasms threw it's blue tooth air port.
And fix me tacos.

~Fux tacos

[lazyfatbum]

LOL they cant even spell SONY rite

[Dark Jaguar]

lazy, I found that hilarious, but then my brain asked my brain this question "What would random youtube poster say?". Then I cried...

The answer was this: "lol stupid Sannyo is other company FAIL!"

[etoven]

I have no idea what you both are talking about....

[lazyfatbum]

We're complimenting your phone.

[Dark Jaguar]

I think it's closer to say we're acknowledging it.

[Sacred Jellybean]

Hahahaha. :D

I got a flip-phone pretty recently, as in the past few months after my other phone with the duct-taped antennae died. It was a lower-end model, and it pretty much fulfills all my needs, save for some grievances with how they programmed the text messaging. "Why would I want a capital letter there? It's in the middle of the sentence! Argh." At least they got adding in words to the dictionary down pretty well.

[Dark Jaguar]

Text messaging... never saw the point. I mean sure you COULD spend minutes slowly and inaccurately typing in a mispelled bit of TEXT, or, OR, you could TALK TO THEM, leave perhaps a message in their voice mail that they could, say, LISTEN TO.

At some point someone's going to just make the process of inputting text "eaiser" by implementing MORSE CODE in the dang thing. Oh yeah, there's progress.

Oh, let's not forget how they CHARGE for the service of this texting. I know for a FACT that their servers are burdened less by handling text than handling voice data in real time and storing messages in voice mail, but they charge you MORE to use the other option, and they charge you to RECIEVE text messages! Fortunatly, as of yet, they still let you block the text stuff outright.

[lazyfatbum]

txting is pretty good, its helpful for when you're at work/school and just to remind someone of something like "dont forget bread" or "I miss ur bewbs" or "u got dick hairs on my shirt" or like this msg i received just moments ago that reads "jet li is hot and so r u"

Mmm... Jet Li

[Dark Jaguar]

You... just send those to yourself all day don't you?

I just don't see why one can't just leave a voice message or "wutnot". I mean if you are in a situation where you can't talk, is looking down at a phone the whole time punching in keys really any better?

[etoven]

You... just send those to yourself all day don't you?

I just don't see why one can't just leave a voice message or "wutnot". I mean if you are in a situation where you can't talk, is looking down at a phone the whole time punching in keys really any better?

My new phone is G3 enabled which means it supports Voice SMS. It's basically a txt message but with voice instead of text.

[Dark Jaguar]

So... your phone supports answering machine technology?

[lazyfatbum]

laugh.

[Sacred Jellybean]

Text messaging... never saw the point. I mean sure you COULD spend minutes slowly and inaccurately typing in a mispelled bit of TEXT, or, OR, you could TALK TO THEM, leave perhaps a message in their voice mail that they could, say, LISTEN TO.

At some point someone's going to just make the process of inputting text "eaiser" by implementing MORSE CODE in the dang thing. Oh yeah, there's progress.

Or... they could have a SYSTEM in place where you punch KEYS to quickly form WORDS. Take the word "instance". To type that, you type 46782623. Nice and easy. It's not like you type 444 to scroll to the i, then 66 to the n, etc. With enough practice, it becomes easy to scan the keypad for the next letter. Text messaging has come a long way. :) Obviously, there's still room for ambiguity, like the system confusing the words "he" and "if", "go" and "in", etc., but a simple click of a button lets you scroll through words. And in the case of longer words, often times you can put in enough letters to eliminate ambiguity, so you can just type enough of the word and hit "next" to let it finish for you. Really, most inaccuracies come from big fingers pressing small keys, but those are lowered with practice.

You... just send those to yourself all day don't you?

I just don't see why one can't just leave a voice message or "wutnot". I mean if you are in a situation where you can't talk, is looking down at a phone the whole time punching in keys really any better?

If you're in the middle of a conversation, no. If you're in a classroom, yes. It just depends on the situation and how rude you think it'd be. The bigger point, though, is if you have no idea what situation the recipient is in, you can just send a text message to make sure you aren't disruping anything with an annoying ring.

[Dark Jaguar]

Some new cell phones are apparently going to tackle things like measuring particles in the air, aka, breathalizer, carbon monoxide detecting, and a few others. Further they'll be able to take someone's pulse and measure sunlight and so on.

Basically we'll have a device in our hands, in the real world, that does more stuff than the fantastical sci-fi star trek tricorders could do. Don't tell me you never tried making that "bebebe" noise when flipping open a cell phone.

[Sacred Jellybean]

I actually prefer a cell phone that's simpler, rather than trying to integrate a bunch of subpar devices. Mobile calls and text messaging are all I really care about. I don't care much for the camera, but I will admit that in the past couple of months, I've had some fun sending low-quality pictures to people (since I don't carry around my digital camera). I'd rather have a device that does what it's designed for (e.g. mp3 player), rather than being some all-encapsulating portable electronic gadget.

Having a breathalizer and carbon monoxide detection is certainly handy, though. I have no problem with that, and in fact encourage a breathalizer, even though most drunk people are still too stupid to admit that they've had too much to drive a car.

[Dark Jaguar]

"Are you that kind of drunk where, you know it's like, you shouldn't be driving but, hey, you have to get your car home, right? What you want me to take a bus? YOU take a bus."

"I'm that kind of drunk."

[etoven]

So... your phone supports answering machine technology?

NO.... (AND YES)
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[etoven]

Or... they could have a SYSTEM in place where you punch KEYS to quickly form WORDS. Take the word "instance". To type that, you type 46782623. Nice and easy.

My phone does that, along with many other phones, it's called T9 mode.

[Sacred Jellybean]

My phone does that, along with many other phones, it's called T9 mode.

I know, mine does too. It could use improvements, though. They need to allow for you to select a puncuation character from a list that's ranked by most commonly used, and to stop with the fucking capital letters in the middle of a sentence. I mean, what the fuck? That's ridiculously easy to program and should have easily been found in unit testing.

[Dark Jaguar]

So you can send files... okay... so what, you record a message and then you send the message?

[etoven]

So you can send files... okay... so what, you record a message and then you send the message?

Yea, like an email. It goes in a voice mms inbox you can browse on you phone. Much better than this 'press 2 to hear.... beep, press 1 if yo... beep, to delete... beep' crap.

[etoven]

I know, mine does too. It could use improvements, though. They need to allow for you to select a puncuation character from a list that's ranked by most commonly used, and to stop with the fucking capital letters in the middle of a sentence. I mean, what the fuck? That's ridiculously easy to program and should have easily been found in unit testing.

Yea, the funky caps annoys the shit out of me to.
The 3GPP2 group could defiantly use some TovenNet engineering.

[Dark Jaguar]

So basically, it is EXACTLY what voice mail already is, just easier to navigate?

[etoven]

So basically, it is EXACTLY what voice mail already is, just easier to navigate?

Not exactly...

You don't send a voice mail....
You leave a voice mail, and its only an option in the event the other person doesn't pick up.

Think of it as the next level of SMS messaging.

Also additionally it supports video, and image streams as well, not just audio. All organized neatly in your inbox.

[Dark Jaguar]

I don't see the difference.

[Sacred Jellybean]

Did it come with a leather imitation fanny pack for easy access?

[lazyfatbum]

You should just walk up to a girl, flip out this phone and make this sound.

PIZ-AH!

and then fully expect some kind of sexual encounter.

Do it

and record the entire thing.

we'll be laughing with you.

with.