The other really *interesting* bit...
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| BernardSwiss Nov 08, 2011 7:04 PM EDT |
Quoting: For example, regarding NFC, she is said to have warned, "The banks, carriers and merchants all want to be in control, and customers are still nervous about using it. Right now you can only have one payment model in your phone at one time because of the carriers, and merchants don’t want to deploy multiple scanning devices -- so it will take a while to work out who gets the money and how." Everybody wants to sell me a smartphone, but no one wants to let me actually own it... |
| tracyanne Nov 08, 2011 8:06 PM EDT |
Which is why I don't have one. |
| caitlyn Nov 08, 2011 8:40 PM EDT |
I have one because it helps in my business and makes me more productive. What I won't do is use the new mobile payment systems. Like the article says, customers (read: me) are nervous about it. I don't trust it in terms of security one little bit and I wonder how data about my purchases will be tracked and sold and used. |
| Koriel Nov 08, 2011 9:57 PM EDT |
I would like to have one but i'm one of the poor folk, gadgets? I remember them but thats all. |
| caitlyn Nov 08, 2011 11:55 PM EDT |
Trust me, if it wasn't a necessity for the sort of consulting business I'm in I probably wouldn't have one either. |
| helios Nov 09, 2011 12:57 AM EDT |
You and me both Caitlyn...I live off and from my little ol' Hero 12-14 hours a day, with chargers stashed all over the place due to cr@ppy battery life. this one was donated and I sit on a shared plan with Adam and Diane so the cost isn't that bad. I mean, if I am sitting somewhere and I don't see my phone in direct proximity, the obligatory panicked pocket pat begins until I feel that rectangular tether to my life. And that's sad really, but it's the life we live today. So yeah, it is a ball and chain of sorts. The really sad part is that we could cut right through the chains any time we choose. Unfortunately, they've become the conduit for our professional lives and aside from a lottery fortune and a private island, I don't see anything changing until I quit doing what I do. |
| techiem2 Nov 09, 2011 1:10 AM EDT |
Hehe. I outright bought my N900 unlocked and use it on a nice little prepaid plan, so I pay next to nothing. I don't need data and I rarely use it for calls (and almost never long ones). Now with the combination of my Cell, Google Voice, the Groove IP Android app on my Transformer, and my new Ooma, I can call or be called from pretty much anywhere I happen to be for little cost to me (see my blog for the writeup on it all I did the other day if you are interested). |
| tuxchick Nov 09, 2011 1:15 AM EDT |
It's the data plans that keep me from trying a smartphone. They're way expensive for tiny bandwidth. I know people who spend a couple hundred dollars a month and that is nuts. And then I hear about customer-hostile guff like penalties for tethering. I'd like to get acquainted with a good smartphone because I should be keeping up with this stuff, but the costs are crazy. |
| tracyanne Nov 09, 2011 1:16 AM EDT |
I live in and work from a motorhome, these days. Everything is Wireless, I'm on Optus Wireless Broadband (with wifi modem so we can both access the internet in the home). I have an ordinary, and old, mobile phone, and I carry a netbook, when I'm out of the office, complete with Broadband dongle. Mostly I communicate via Skype on the netbook, but the phones there for other people to contact me. I've removed sms and voicemail, the phones a phone that's it. People want to send me stuff they email it or skype it, same goes in return. |
| techiem2 Nov 09, 2011 2:36 AM EDT |
Quoting:It's the data plans that keep me from trying a smartphone. That's one of the arguments for buying a phone outright instead of subsidized by the carrier, where they would force you to get a fancy $$$$ plan with it. I bought my phone, then went down to Radio Shack and got the $25 or something prepaid starter kit. They opened it up, activated it, etc. I walked out, pulled the sim out of the cheapo phone, and stuck it in my N900. Full smartphone capabilities, no carrier restrictions on the phone, nice cheap prepaid plan. |
| gus3 Nov 09, 2011 9:18 AM EDT |
TC, would you consider trying a non-smartphone? You can get a refurbished e-reader/tablet for $80 at Ollie's. It's very weak by comparison, but since its intended purpose is turning pages, not sampling, encrypting, and transmitting in near-real time, it might serve your curiosity well. |
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