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XeNobiTe
2008-12-21, 15:22
My Nokia e50 crashed for the last time today, resulting in it getting a serious makeover. Result:

http://www.synclinalllun.net/pht/e50.jpg

Yeah... talk about overkill. I've been meaning to do that for a while now. It was a... company "gift" from a few years ago, so it's no big loss. I still have another... company "gift", some old Samsung clamshell model that I'm using now. So I went to the store today to get myself a new phone. TADAAA!! Bullshit. I went through about 150 different mobile phones and they're all retarded. None of those phones can do anything more than my fucking eight year old phone does. It's moronic.

The reason my e50 ended up splattered against the wall came mostly due to its software and its poor battery. Which is basically the entire phone. Let's point to one of maddox' shitty reviews:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

There he is talking about how shitty an iPhone is in comparison to a shitty Nokia. He then talks about how he can write perl scripts on his Nokia and reboot his webserver. This is all pretty handy, if it wasn't such a piece of shit. You see, Nokia smartphones come equipped with Symbian OS, which is a run down version of horrible old Windows CE? Anyone remember Windows CE? If you don't, it's a piece of shit. Symbian OS does whatever CE did, only far worse. It's slow, it's ugly and it crashes. Now, I don't really care about software crashing when I'm trying to display a word document on a 1" screen, but when that shit starts to act up during a voice conversation, it just gets retarded.

Now, the second thing that irritates the fuck out of me is poor battery life. Does anyone remember the Nokia 6210 and 6310 from the 90s? Remember how the battery pack was as long as the phone itself? You know why that is? Because without power your phone doesn't work, hence it is the single most important part of the god damn piece of shit phone. Somewhere along the line of the mobile evolution, the companies decided to replace the batteries with huge color screens that serve to no purpose at all. That's just great. They replaced the most important component of the phone with something that does nothing at all.

So there I am, looking to buy a new phone and getting more frustrated by the minute at every piece of shit model. I thought, I ain't paying for this shit. But even as I was going to steal one, I still couldn't decide. I didn't want any of these shitty phones, even if they were free. I went to look at the more expensive models and guess what I saw... Prada and Armani. What kind of a moron buys a fucking phone from Prada? I once remember this faggot from work who wore Prada shoes. He reported me to management after I spat on the leather seats of his Saab convertible. It really wasn't my fault. He needs to keep his top down when he parks his car in the public parking lot.

tl/dr

Shit, why can't companies just make phones like they did back in the 90s. I again mention the Nokia 6210/6310 as perfect example. Loud, super battery, bluetooth, big keys, strong body, etc.

-SpectraL
2008-12-21, 16:54
Terrible bitch, friend. You could get a Brand New Nokia 6310 Gold (http://cgi.ebay.ca/New-NOKIA-6310-6310i-Gold-UNLOCKED-BLUETOOTH-PHONE-gift_W0QQitemZ230315171997QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCell_ Phones?hash=item230315171997&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A3%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318) unlocked on EBay for $150, with bluetooth, including shipping, and then you'd be able rid yourself of threads such as these. It's not my phone, but I just went and found it out there to prove my point. There are many others out there. Spend some cash and stop crying for nothing.

XeNobiTe
2008-12-21, 18:47
Terrible bitch, friend.

No kidding. Bitching and crying isn't exactly my forte. I'm more of the hands on approach type, like breaking stuff and kicking people.

And I know you can still buy old phones online from shady people. That wasn't my point. My point was why can't they make good shit like they did years ago. And besides, I'm not going to pay 150 for a 10 year old phone. No matter how good it is. They just need to make good NEW phones that don't feel like a plastic piece of shit with buggy software.

vilbe
2008-12-21, 22:02
man i got a sanyo that makes it about 3 days on a single charge, without being chatty...

providing you turn most obnoxious features off. features kill battery life. idiots and their "apps". wtf? a phone is for calling people, not a mini computer. they have those...

Mötle˙ Crüe
2008-12-22, 01:08
On grandfinal day when me and my friends were getting drunk, one of my mates was trying to get drugs, and we were waiting around for the call to pick them up and suddenly he gets a text saying "sorry, can't get it".

He proceeded to peg the phone at the floor as hard as he could and then picked it up and started twisting it to pieces. Would've been hilarious if I was sober enough to realise what was happening.

Zip118
2008-12-22, 05:03
Hah, nice work. There's a world of difference between Symbian 9.1 and 9.2 though, I bought an E71 yesterday and it's very responsive, no crashes so far compared to my old Windows Mobile phones. The successor to yours, the E51, also has the updated software.

Fetus-Smasher
2008-12-24, 21:19
Hah, nice work. There's a world of difference between Symbian 9.1 and 9.2 though, I bought an E71 yesterday and it's very responsive, no crashes so far compared to my old Windows Mobile phones. The successor to yours, the E51, also has the updated software.

Fuckin nerd.

krendan
2008-12-24, 21:53
what about mobile phones, like nokia's 8910i, that looked cool and not a piece of shit made for sissies??? what the fuck is wrong with them?? how hard is to make a beautiful, simple, full of gadgets phone like this

http://www.mobilesdata.com/images/big/Nokia/8910i.jpg

jackketch
2008-12-24, 21:55
Can't disagree, either about the phone nor the OS. My Siemens S10 lasted years and took all the punishment I could hand out..including being dropped from two stories, hit with a baton and dropped in the toilet...more than once. Now I just use my kids' cast offs until the battey dies for good (usually about a month after I got it).

Windows CE? Oh dear...what was that joke back in the day? Oh yes I remember: Windows CE+ME+NT=?

Lestat1080
2008-12-25, 01:26
what about mobile phones, like nokia's 8910i, that looked cool and not a piece of shit made for sissies??? what the fuck is wrong with them?? how hard is to make a beautiful, simple, full of gadgets phone like this

http://www.mobilesdata.com/images/big/Nokia/8910i.jpg

i had that phone a few years back, and it still works when i had to use it last week as i was doing some climbing and didnt want to trash my new one, its still bloody amazing even though its old as.

johnplywd
2008-12-27, 00:45
dropped in the toilet...more than once.

how in the fuck do you drop your phone in the toilet? How in the fuck do you keep on dropping it in the toilet? Did it land on a big nasty floater? Is that how it stayed dry? How many times did you put that phone next to your mouth?

jackketch
2008-12-27, 07:28
how in the fuck do you drop your phone in the toilet? How in the fuck do you keep on dropping it in the toilet? Did it land on a big nasty floater? Is that how it stayed dry? How many times did you put that phone next to your mouth?

A few years back people wore cell phones on their belts, in leather cases with belt clips.

It was very common for men to pull thier trousers back up and for the phone to slip off the belt and land in the freshly flushed toilet.

Usually if one left the phone on a radiator for a couple of days it worked fine again and after a good scrub with an anti-bac wipe you were good to go.