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Author Topic: Fixing a Razr phone? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2006 09:25 PM                        Yeah, but you would NEVER get a dropped call or a stupid annoying pop-song ring tone with that Western Electric phone. No roaming charges, either.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-25-2006 09:30 PM                  Mike, you NEED a better provider... Oh, and I agree about no roaming charges... cuz ya can only "roam" about 50ft with those corded phones...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2006 10:12 PM                        No pop song ring tone??? OH FUCK THAT I'LL NEVER USE THAT PHONE IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A POP SONG RING TONE!!! Actually it probably has a bell that'll wake the neighbors ten doors down when it rings.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-25-2006 10:16 PM                     "Pop song" ring tone? That implies Brittney Spears or Jessica Simpson would be barking out of my phone. Screw that. I have hard rock for my ring tone, Back in Black from AC/DC. If I want my phone to be especially annoying when it rings, I'll select the "extra man" sound effect from those classic 1980s Williams Electronics games (Defender, Robotron:2084, Stargate).  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2006 11:05 PM                        I have a goddamn phone ring for my ring tone. A bit electronic sounding, but that's OK.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2006 11:50 PM                     YEAH! Why the fuck don't phones just RING anymore?!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-26-2006 12:08 AM                        Because ringing isn't 1337 enough for the kiddies out there. Having a phone that plays music or a voice clip from a favorite movie or TV show will display to everyone else how hip and with it you are. And you don't want anyone thinking that you're not cool. Can't have that. Honestly though, if I had part of a song as my ring tone, I imagine I'd quickly get sick of that song.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-26-2006 01:15 AM                     I think the original purpose of customized ring tones was so people could tell who's phone was ringing when several people all had cell phones. Joe is right though, currently ring tones are a 'cool' thing.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-26-2006 06:14 AM                        If telco service started out this bad; it would not have survived. WE have become accustomed to gradually reducing quality and cell phones prove this. Louis  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2006 10:12 AM                     There is actually a branch of mathematics (Combinatorics) which, for instance, can be used to determine the minimum number of ringtones needed to aurally differentiate all the cell phones in any given room. Cartographers have used these formulas to determine that it takes no more than 5 colors to make a map so that no two countries with a common boundary have the same color. By extension, I figure that there need be no more than, say, a dozen possible ringtones to be sure that no two phones in the same room have the same sound. Just for safety, double that. (Because people move around quasi-randomly. Countries on a map don't.) Therefore the two dozen ring tones that come on a phone are MORE than enough to differentiate any two phones in the same room. The ONLY reason for the proliferation of ring tones is to pad the pockets of the cell phone companies... You have to PAY to download those damn songs, doncha' know!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2006 12:58 PM                        When we were a cellphone dealer at my day job, we got a lot of complaints about the crappy signal in town. (The tower was 5 miles from the town, which is in a valley.) When ringtones and 'games' became popular, I emailed the district supervisor and said: "Why don't you put less effort into the games and ringtones and so on, and concentrate more on improving the service?" He wrote back: "Because we make A LOT of money on games and ringtones." We got out of the cell business soon after that. I remain mystified as to why people will happily spend $2 or more on a 30-second crappy-sounding ringtone, but balk at CD and movie ticket prices.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-26-2006 02:25 PM                        Cell phones have replaced cigarettes as the new mass-market addictive behavior of choice. The cell addicts can't put their phone down without going into withdrawal. And if they do, they have to pick it up and check it again every 30 seconds, just like taking a puff on a cig.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-26-2006 02:44 PM                        quote: [Text messaging is useful] if you have something very private to tell someone ("Honey, put on the buttless chaps, I'm coming home") but can't say out loud (say while your on the bus or during a church service). I do not understand why you would not want to say this out loud, especially in church.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-26-2006 03:38 PM                     As big and bright as mobile phone displays have become, it would be easy for someone to read over your shoulder to see what kind of perverted stuff you were typing -especially in the crowded confines of a church! BTW, I do have regular ring tones selected on my phone for certain people. For instance, if my boss calls my phone will blare out the regular old fashioned sounding phone ringer. It's like caller ID without having to look at the phone. I may create some fart and/or vomit sound effects ringers to attach to certain callers in my phone book.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2006 09:40 PM                     The voice dial feature on my phone has only one name programmed into it. My boss, the production manager. The word I have it trained for is, "Fuck!" I don't know how many times I found myself standing in the middle of the stage, just hours before curtain, when somebody walks up to me and says, "The band isn't here yet...", or, "We're out of HPL stage lamps..." or something like that. And, I don't know how many times somebody has done that when I said, "Fuck!" and picked up my cell phone to call the boss. So, I figured I'd make it all into one, smooth motion. I pick up my phone, snap it open, click the button and say, "Fuck!" Moments later the call goes through.  |  IP: Logged

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