I am given to understand that nobody really wants their new bendy phone
despite the huge number oof commercials. I think they just do not trust a
bendy screen will last very long and feels difficult to use.
Bring back the Blackberry I say.
Brian

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Exactly. I've already got a very nice smartphone that does everything
I need from a smartphone, and can't think of any immediate reason to
change it for another one. Anything that I might want to do on a
bigger screen would probably require me to sit down somewhere to do
it, and I've already got computers that enable me to do that.

Rod.

On Sat, 9 Sep 2023 13:12:27 +0100, "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am given to understand that nobody really wants their new bendy phone
>despite the huge number oof commercials. I think they just do not trust a
>bendy screen will last very long and feels difficult to use.
> Bring back the Blackberry I say.
> Brian

On 09/09/2023 13:36, Roderick Stewart wrote:
> Exactly. I've already got a very nice smartphone that does everything
> I need from a smartphone, and can't think of any immediate reason to
> change it for another one. Anything that I might want to do on a
> bigger screen would probably require me to sit down somewhere to do
> it, and I've already got computers that enable me to do that.

Likewise. I'd still be using my Samsung Galaxy S7 from about 5 years ago
if it hadn't developed an intermittent spontaneous-rebooting problem
which forced me to buy a newer Samsung A54. The new phone has a slightly
larger screen and a better camera (three lenses for wide, normal and
telephoto), but those changes weren't enough to make me ditch the old
phone if it had still been working OK.

I treat a phone as a web-browsing and email-reading device, but the
small screen and hence small on-screen keyboard makes it very cumbersome
for anything which requires non-trivial typing. I have a laptop and a
desktop computer for those things!

NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> On 09/09/2023 13:36, Roderick Stewart wrote:
>> Exactly. I've already got a very nice smartphone that does everything
>> I need from a smartphone, and can't think of any immediate reason to
>> change it for another one. Anything that I might want to do on a
>> bigger screen would probably require me to sit down somewhere to do
>> it, and I've already got computers that enable me to do that.
>
> Likewise. I'd still be using my Samsung Galaxy S7 from about 5 years ago
> if it hadn't developed an intermittent spontaneous-rebooting problem
> which forced me to buy a newer Samsung A54. The new phone has a slightly
> larger screen and a better camera (three lenses for wide, normal and
> telephoto), but those changes weren't enough to make me ditch the old
> phone if it had still been working OK.
>
> I treat a phone as a web-browsing and email-reading device, but the
> small screen and hence small on-screen keyboard makes it very cumbersome
> for anything which requires non-trivial typing. I have a laptop and a
> desktop computer for those things!
>

None of you are the intended market for these devices, you (and I) are too
old. Youngsters run their entire life on phones and rarely venture to
laptops or tablets. They also have better eyesight and are more dexterous.

On Sat, 9 Sep 2023 13:12:27 +0100, "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Bring back the Blackberry I say.

I say bring back the Nokia 7110. Matrix Slider and a serial port, you
don't need anything else!

Yes but the current stupid campaign that it somehow hypnotises you to buy it
has to be one of the lamest I've heard in years. Now I have nothing against
them as a company, I have one of their tellies, but my Iphone xr is
perfectly good and the battery health is 95 percent.
I shock horror use my phone as a phone, and a texter using dictation
mostly, use the alexa app and facetime as it is free. I've no real interest
in social media, nor do I use it for email very much, as I find the
interface a bit clunky, nor do I use it for web browsing, though its
somewhat better now it uses firefox, I have to say. Brian

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"Tweed" <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>> On 09/09/2023 13:36, Roderick Stewart wrote:
>>> Exactly. I've already got a very nice smartphone that does everything
>>> I need from a smartphone, and can't think of any immediate reason to
>>> change it for another one. Anything that I might want to do on a
>>> bigger screen would probably require me to sit down somewhere to do
>>> it, and I've already got computers that enable me to do that.
>>
>> Likewise. I'd still be using my Samsung Galaxy S7 from about 5 years ago
>> if it hadn't developed an intermittent spontaneous-rebooting problem
>> which forced me to buy a newer Samsung A54. The new phone has a slightly
>> larger screen and a better camera (three lenses for wide, normal and
>> telephoto), but those changes weren't enough to make me ditch the old
>> phone if it had still been working OK.
>>
>> I treat a phone as a web-browsing and email-reading device, but the
>> small screen and hence small on-screen keyboard makes it very cumbersome
>> for anything which requires non-trivial typing. I have a laptop and a
>> desktop computer for those things!
>>
>
> None of you are the intended market for these devices, you (and I) are too
> old. Youngsters run their entire life on phones and rarely venture to
> laptops or tablets. They also have better eyesight and are more dexterous.
>

I think that was the one you could load Talks onto to enable blind use.
I think I would miss the excellent OCR apps you can get for the I phone, as
cameras on phones are now very good at getting blur removed shots for this
purpose.
Brian

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"William Wright" <william@m6wiq.eternal-september.org> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Sep 2023 13:12:27 +0100, "Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Bring back the Blackberry I say.
>
> I say bring back the Nokia 7110. Matrix Slider and a serial port, you
> don't need anything else!