Are you a phone snob? Do you look at people with simple phones and feel pity that they have not entered the smartphone world? I tend to look at them and feel envious that they can live perfectly well without a smartphone.
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Smartphone features are a luxury. If people feel they don’t need these features and just go for a simple phone, then good for them.
But I pity the fools who buy smartphones and use them as simple phones.
My wife has a very old and basic nokia and it does what she wants and has great battery life. If she needs to know the weather she looks out of the window . Who needs a smartphone ?
My fiancee uses a smartphone like a normal phone, she has a Samsung i780 and uses it only for calls and SMS.. But she wouldn’t use a normal phone as she demands a full hardware querty keyboard.. So the i780 is about the cheapest/best outright purchase option I can think of..
I tend to look at them and feel envious that they can live perfectly well without a smartphone.
That’s a very interesting comment. What exactly are you envious of?
The fact they can organise their life without resort to a complex electronic gadget?
That they can live without constant recourse to a connected world?
Does it say more about you as a person than the technology you use?
no, I’m not a phone snob, but I know a heck of a lot of iPhone snobs who poo-poo it based on web reports rather than having actually used it themselves. These kinds of snobs are the worst – armed with a little information which they make out to be more than it is but not enough to actually know what they are talking about.
Even simple phones are pretty complex these days. I guess it all depends on how simple you mean. A lot of people just want to take some photos, set an alarm and listen to music. One or two might even go online for something simple… but you don’t need a smart phone for that!
I don’t envy nor snob anyone. It seems a shame that someone would use a smart phone for nothing much at all, but then again, is it a shame someone has a great PC (or Mac) just to surf the Net? (…yeah, kinda!)
But I get the feeling where you sometimes have when someone is perfectly happy with something nice and simple. Why complicate life? Because I’d probably be bored! I like being able to post this from a cafe, over a coffee without having to drag too much around with me.
Rave finished… thanks!
Well I have ordered an old Nokia 8310 – a small old feature phone
I am going to see if I can survive with one feature ohone and one Smartphone. I normally need 2 Smartphones!
“Does it say more about you as a person than the technology you use?”
It does, hence my envy.
I’ve tried normal phones in the last few years but found them frustrating and always went back to a smartphone. Hated the t9 text entry, having to press 23 buttons to find a menu item/setting, not being able to do the things you can do with a smartphone….yuk. Don’t envy them at all.
“having to press 23 buttons to find a menu item/setting.”
Sounds a bit like a BlackBerry…
“Sounds a bit like a BlackBerry…”
Such a completely incorrect statement…
“Such a completely incorrect statement…”
If you say so. You’ve got to admit that they UI is a bit creaky, surely?
Not at all. I find it very quick to use. Goes back to what we were saying last week- different people like different things. I still prefer it to the iPhone multi page interface.
Yes, different people like different things, can’t disagree with that. My wife has had her BlackBerry Curve for over 6 weeks now and is still utterly baffled by all the key press combinations, and the alternative menus that pop up when you press either the trackball, the back key or the Blackberry Key. Even as an experienced Blackberry user, I am struggling to help her with it. I have to say that there is no way I could ever go back to all of that – can’t stand it.
Millions of people can’t be wrong:) Diversity rules!
Diversity rules!
I don’t think that anyone has said otherwise.
Hmmm as a current user of an ipod touch , blackberry curve and HTC Hero and an ex user of WM6.5 and symbian my views are – Hero best phone and great at everything. Apple great for simplification and at the moment games. Blackberry functional but clumsy . Symbian and WM functioning but boring .
Not a snob but Hero rules . Check definition of the word Hero. Quite apt .
Updated new ROM on Hero and kept all my data etc cool stuff .
I do take the mickey out of my father for his cheap and basic nokia, but that’s only as he’s generally quite tech savvy. He really has no use for anything more functional though.
“Blackberry functional but clumsy”
Good one Gavin and spot on. I think Mr McGill needs a reality check on the BB front….Shaun?
I’ve still yet to use a blackberry. The one feature it had that I craved was push email and now I’ve got that elsewhere.