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10/14/2004

The little things in life

10/14/2004 01:57:00 am
My little brother's got a Nokia with an infrared port. My palm's got an infrared port. So I thought "Why not?".

There is an infinite joy in being able to dial a number using your palm and having the phone connect. Ridiculous? yes, since the phone's right there! Fiddly? You betcha! IR ports need to be held in line of sight, and the Palm's cover gets right in the way of the port. On top of that, you need to enable IR on the phone, and it only remains enabled for a minute or so.

The procedure effectively becomes a ridiculous one. Enable IR on the phone through a menu option. hold it in front of the palm with one hand, while holding the palm and trying to type the number in the other. The sheer ridiculousness of technology is baffling, and entertaining to no end.

So I'm resolved to get a bluetooth phone next. Keep everything synced. Hopefully 3G data costs will be reduced (don't laugh!). It's doing dumb crap like this that I ever opted for a palm, as opposed to something useful like an ipod.
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# 10/14/2004 01:23:00 am
Blogger blerg
The reason why your "Palm" and your brother's "Nokia" have issues "communicating" between your "infrared ports" is because God frowns upon this sort of activity between two males. Stop it before He gets really angry and starts smiting bunnies.

What is it with people and phones? Why is it that everyone I know goes through about 3 phones every year? Am I some lame sort of technophobe who only finally got a phone about a year ago, and plans on passing it on to his children? I detect an "inane, long-winded post" concerning this in the near future.

On a totally unrelated note, the era of moh da beast was rather short, wasn't it?
 
# 10/14/2004 01:29:00 am
Blogger Unknown
Well you could get a voda gprs plan where it's $50 for 500 MB -
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1361?show=replies

Or go with a dataplan from 3 which charge about $1/mb.

Tempting to get proper access to email/IM on the train, but more seriously, I can't be bothered.
 
# 10/14/2004 08:52:00 pm
Blogger Foobear
Yes, GPRS is ever so cost effective, but I'm loathe to use a TDMA GMSK system, despite the relative abundance of BTSes. I'm with Orange, and I'll hope to stay with them until I can switch to a low cost WCDMA solution.

I'm with Nathan in that I don't want to keep getting new phones. It's an abhorrent practise. My brother's extra phone is a spare. There are reasons I won't go into.

Further, GPRS is an abomination. I'm all for adding hacks onto old redundant systems, but slotted aloha on a circuit switched system is just wrong.

I'm Sunny Kalsi, and I'm a Telecommunications Arsehole.
 

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