FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Missed that the first time. That's actually fucking cool.Actually, my phone uses speech synthesis and reads out the caller's name, so that's the next best thing.
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Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
To be fair, there's well over 2000 Symbian and Java titles you can get for S60v3 phones now and more every day, so I'm not missing out on that, the speed isn't really much of an issue (RAM is to a degree, I'll admit) because the phone to be pretty fast... and it's actually got 2 processors in there; one is a GPU for 3d graphics and you can run the calendar app in there on the standby screen for basically the same thing (or run 3rd party apps that boot up with the phone that do that).
It uses the sIRF Star-II chip, not the III and indeed, that's because of the battery drain.
I'm not paying for the Nav software at all. I download the maps here on my machine, transfer them over to my MicroSD card and I'm away - that's it. The only time I pay for anything is if I want to have voice guidance activated which you have to subscribe to (which is really dumb), otherwise it's dead free. And it's damn quick - I get a satellite lock in a moving car in less than 30 seconds normally, which is pretty good for that class of chip. The initial firmware was pretty shit, though, and would likely be on par with the results you were seeing from the 6110 (which made me MAJORLY disappointed when I first tried my GPS), but since they added A-GPS in the latest update, it's blindingly fast (admittedly though in this case you're paying for a quick initial 5kb data transfer over GPRS to help get the lock, but that's pretty cheap).
Having said all that, TomTom 7 is out soon, so I'm seriously considering picking that up sometime.
Good phone, I think!
VERY funny when people try to compare it to the iPhone, let's say that much (what a dog of a device that looks to be!)
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Definitely a big improvement considering the aforementioned phone required us to pull up on the side of the road for up to a minute before it would lock, then it would drop out again every 5 minutes or so
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Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
Yeah, it was FUCKED. I was standing outside my house in clear view of a blue sky and it STILL took 5 minutes to get a lock! A-GPS is a massive improvement and well worth the firmware update alone!
A-GPS is a massive improvement and well worth the firmware update alone!
Rick
Senior User
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
Judging by the amount of complaints that people on AT&T have been getting about the dropped calls from iPhones (yes, only locked to AT&T, no 3G, no MMS, no video calls or video camera, poor battery life, etc. etc. - a real winner phone, hey?) I dunno if that would be one of the iPhone's strongest selling points either!
I liked that today was " International Good Mood Day" today for some reason everyone at work was happy , even the chick at the cafe said she liked my hair and ive been goin there for 2 years.....
Judging by the amount of complaints that people on AT&T have been getting about the dropped calls from iPhones (yes, only locked to AT&T, no 3G, no MMS, no video calls or video camera, poor battery life, etc. etc. - a real winner phone, hey?) I dunno if that would be one of the iPhone's strongest selling points either!
The excuse I've heard from iClones is that "oh even the first couple of generations of the iPod where buggy.... give it a few generations of development and the iPhone will be brilliant"
For the amount they are charging people and the HYPE, I'd expect brilliance immediately!
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
Now if he could only hack it to give it the basic specs of similarly priced phones instead of just looking pretty, then that might be useful. HAHA!
HAHA!
in_absentia
Aurora Borealis
Haha i also love that i just handed in 3 major projects. OMG I'M FREE!
really strange sensation, though. Everytime i watch TV i would be like omg i need to go and finish my work! Then i would be like.. what work? Dammit, it's what happens when you've been working on these things for a year! Oh i also love that i took my formal money and bought a Muse ticket with it :Smokin:
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Not that I'm a fan of Muse by any means but good work
School formals are bullshit anyway. Just an excuse for boys to waste money on a hire car they'd never be able to actually afford, girls to waste money on dresses that more often than not look shit anyway and they'll never wear again, 'cool' crowds to nominate themselves for all sorts of meaningless awards ranging from "Most Popular" to "Most Likely To Contract AIDS While Being Drug-Fucked And Slutting Around At Schoolies" all in the name of feeling like grown-ups.How much was the ticket?
A girl at my school MADE her parents buy her a dress at xmas the year before our formal. Low and behold, a month out from the night, she realises it's way too small. So she just goes and buys another one?
Nope... starved herself for a month to fit into it.
Her group hired a limo and they raided the drinks cabinet.... she downed a mini-bottle of vodka, walked into the venue and promptly vomited and passed out
The moral of the story?
Even if you don't want to go, you never know what sort of fun stories you'll get to retell afterwards when the "cool" kids make a mockery of themselves
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Starved or...
I have this disturbing image in my head of someone standing on scales, not liking the result, fingers down the gullet,
uke: and repeat until ideal weight is achieved 
I'd say it was a combo of both... apparently she'd spent the last couple of days "purging"
Didn't help that the dress looked like shite anyway
Didn't help that the dress looked like shite anyway
whoneedstherapy
Merchant of the low end
I'd say it was a combo of both... apparently she'd spent the last couple of days "purging"
Didn't help that the dress looked like shite anyway
it's amazing the difference a course of strong laxatives... or salmonella can make to someone's weight. You may need to start using those aloe vera tissues for toilet paper though...
