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Wow - long-lived phones! The longest-lived phone I've had lasted around 4 years (an LG CDMA model) that the hinge contact eventually went.
My phones either broke, or my carrier changed technology, such that I'm on my 9th phone after less than 20 years.
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I'm still using the phone I bought in 05; had to buy a new battery for it last summer but it's still going strong otherwise. I don't have any plans to replace it anytime soon. I'm not going to double what I pay VZW/month for a fondleslab; and unless Sprint/TMobile expand their networks significantly or their MVNOs are able to get better roaming (or any at all) deals with VZW/ATT their discount smartphone plans that would be cheaper are useless to me because their coverage is too patchy where I live.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My first phone was Samsung X450 i don't remember when i got it (it was a present from my mom) maybe 2003 or 2004 somewhere then. That phone still works and it works just fine.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I resisted a smart phone until 2010. But then I had to start learning how to program for them for work, so, have had one ever since.
Honestly, if it wasn't for having to program for them, I would probably stick to a simple phone.
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup
The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke!
My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
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It's old. Very old. Palm OS was one of the very first successful smartphone platforms, before the word smartphone even existed!
It's the smartest phone I can get without being forced to have a data plan. I'm on the computer too much as it is, so why would I want a data plan?
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so you don't get freakin lost?
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stephen.hazel wrote: so you don't get [...] lost?
I don't understand. Since when did map reading and navigation skills depend on having a smartphone? As a kid, I learned how to read a map. As a teen, I learned how to print driving directions from various online maps. I also learned how to plan ahead and look at that map before I left instead of relying on last-minute announcements of "turn left now...".
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you don't always get to plan ahead in life. Hey! We found a new beer spot - meet us at Willmore Way and Friddletydiggit Lane. And there are ACTUALLY girls here.
i =was= right there with you. you can definitely get by without a data plan if it's too much of an expense.
But then I got a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and fell in love. It is so cool to rewrite the cool little utilities you made as a kid for windows onto android. And to just be able to walk around with a full scale computer in your dang pocket and be able to show somebody "SEE!! I wrote this dang app that plays audio and dumps hires graphics to this dinky little screen with almost as much resolution as your desktop monitor!!".
And it's way less emasculating to ask a phone for directions. Way.
Once data prices eventually come down to reasonable, you'll see what I mean.
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Had a 900, just got this.
In red.
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What do you like and not like about this phone? My contract has been up for quite a while, and I'm still debating with what to replace my current iPhone 4. What carrier?
Specifically, quality of phone calls, quality of phone connection (e.g. dropped calls), does that tiled interface actually work in daily usage, camera quality, speed, quality of internet connection.
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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AT&T
The phone is freaking huge. And slippery. (I have dry skin, so it always feels like it's going to squirt out of my hand. :p )
Quality of calls, etc, are just fine as far as I'm concerned. But I don't really have much to compare it to. I've only had a "smart" phone since 2008 or so, and it has always been a Windows phone.
My wife had an iPhone for about 1 day, the traded it in for a Samsung. She's up to S3, was looking at an S4 (but since the S5 is coming, she'll wait a bit).
I like the tiles. Very convenient. All my normal activities are right there, one touch to open, with notifications built in.
Camera is excellent, of course. I almost got the 1020 for 41 MP camera, but didn't like the bump. This one is good enough. (If you Facebook, I've got a few public shots up from it in the Andrew "Bulldog" Wojcik photo album. The ones toward the bottom where you can see the white balance has gotten better.  https://www.facebook.com/daniel.j.wojcik[^]. Not great shots, but not bad at all for snapshots in a school gym with all automatic settings.
Havne't had any issues with connectivity.
I'm not crazy about the micrphone, however. If I have the phone sitting in the car and have to talk to it, it doesn't always hear me unless I shout. The 900 didn't have that problem.
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Still I didn't have taste of other Mobile OS. However I feel compatible with Symbian OS mobile.
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I have a Nokia 206- Is it available there? And i do agree with you.
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Yeah, it's a dumb phone. It doesn't play games, access the Internet, send e-mail (except in fairly specific cases), or do social media. What it does is make and receive phone calls and text messages. I neither need nor want 100% connectivity.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: What it does is make and receive phone calls and text messages
It seems that you have ... a mobile phone 
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The Alias is perfect for me. I will mourn when it dies.
Software Zen: delete this;
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As the results show so far, it's incredible that hamsters prefer Windows Phone rather than iPhone, me included.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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why? iPhone is a toy for little girls with rich parents and people who don't know tech and want to pay for half-eaten apples. Not the avarage CP user it seems 
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Couldn't describe it better 
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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and people think iPhone fanboys are insufferable...
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Keep in mind, the results are of people who actually took the poll, not all CPers.
I need an app that will automatically deliver a new BBBBBBBBaBB (beautiful blonde bimbo brandishing bountiful bobbing bare breasts and bodacious butt) every day.
John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Statistics...
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Not that surprising, this site has historically been most active for MS technologies, so I'd expect there to be selection bias in the sample set.
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Still... WP is a relatively new platform and iOS came before Android. Yet Android dominates even here and it is not an MS platform.
If I could guess is it's the fault of iOS closeness nature, which tend to repel power users like CPians.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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i'd say it's more cuz most of us already have been forced to get used to java and like being able to use c++.
and nobody wants to bother learning objective c.
that's the case for ME at least.
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