The Dell Streak.
\nI can see, if you’re a night watchman, or if you have some other job that means you have long wait-times, there may be some desire to watch a movie designed for the biggest possible telly on a handheld screen instead…
\nPersonally I consider a movie a waste if it doesn’t have neat costumes, so that’s kinda lost on me…<\/p>\n
But…there has to be a happy medium with the consumer, and Dell, a company I actually like a lot, may have gone just a shade far.<\/p>\n
What do you think about screensize and personal electronics?<\/p>\n
My own desire is for a phone large enough I can see the buttons (I’m very far-sighted, and can’t see close-up things except as a blur) and read the time without my glasses. I also prefer it to fit in a neat side pocket in my purse and to have a fliptop so the screen doesn’t get scarred up from the hundred other objects I may shove into that pocket with it…and I want it small enough to fit in the purse pocket but not so small it gets lost. Credit-card size is the smallest I ever want, personally. The in-ear ones for the car, maybe—but only if you get a reasonably-legible control unit to set it up and some way to set a: Go ‘way I’m busy response.<\/p>\n
I don’t want it to take photos and play music. I sure don’t want it going to the internet. I don’t text. I just call people, maybe a call a week. Some weeks several, especially if Jane and I are on a shopping trip and need to find each other in Walmart. Many people really do use all that functionality and power to them: I just don’t want it being turned on by accident, which is my major gripe: I’ve had my phone stuck on speaker phone at some really bad moments, and I have to flag a passing teenager who can see the keyboard and ask them to shut it up.<\/p>\n
And being told I have voice mail or text messages—heck, I never set it up to receive them, because I just barely keep up with hundreds of e-mails. [Thank you, Lynn, for reducing that down to only 20-30 a day.] And I still get them. Mostly from the phone company.<\/p>\n
I figure if somebody wants me badly enough they’ll e-mail me. I do check my e-mail. My ideal phone would have a message that says, if someone texts it: this phone just receives regular phone calls. Sorry! That’s all, folks! I would also like a per-month price based on just phone calls. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
What are your own preferences? Just curious. I know OSG (who has professional reasons to want to be contacted) loves her Droid. But it’s sure crazy how wild this market is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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