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Author Topic: Fixing a Razr phone? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-26-2006 09:57 PM                        Although I find that story amusing, I think the voice dial feature is extremely pretentious. It takes so little effort to open up the phone and press the down arrow to the person you want to call and press the little green call button. I think people just want to look cool, as if voice recognition is the hot new technology or something (it's only 'state-of-the-art', not even 'space-age'). And it doesn't seem to work very well. I've heard people in public open up their phones, stand there and say "Call Dennis" or whatever. Pause. "Call Dennis!". Pause. "CALL DENNIS!!" Wait, wait wait. "Hello Dennis, get the buttless chaps on, I'm coming home!"  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-27-2006 08:05 AM                        If I ever get a phone of any type that has a musical ringtone, someone please shoot me. That has to be the most annoying "feature" ever conceived. I would think that voice dialing would be confusing. I would expect that it would be easier to remember Joe's phone number than to remember if I had programmed him in as being "Joe," "Joseph," "Joseph Redifer," "Joe Redifier," "Mr. Redifer," or "That Wiseguy." Then again, I tend to have a pretty good memory for phone numbers, so maybe this is more of an issue for some than for others. Oh, and Phil, I don't have a 500 set with a long cord in my car. I prefer to make phone calls before I leave to go somewhere and then actually pay attention to driving when in the car. Yes, I know that this is out of fashion right now and that some people are perfectly comfortable reading, calling, shuffling papers, and typing on laptops while driving at 80+ miles per hour during rush hour.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-27-2006 08:19 AM                     quote: Scott Norwood If I ever get a phone of any type that has a musical ringtone, someone please shoot me. That has to be the most annoying "feature" ever conceived. That's the whole idea! Why else would that feature be created?  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-27-2006 01:11 PM                     I think text messaging is great, as if you dont want to get into a long conversation with a gasbag long winded friend of yours, you can type in somethign to get right to the point. They're sort of like emails, but I dont see anyone whining about them.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2006 07:09 PM                        You don't have to type e-mail with your thumbs and also don't get charged every time you send and receive one. Also, you can read them on a screen bigger than a fly on a bull's ass. quote: Scott Norwood I would expect that it would be easier to remember Joe's phone number than to remember if I had programmed him in as being "Joe," "Joseph," "Joseph Redifer," "Joe Redifier," "Mr. Redifer," or "That Wiseguy." You forgot "King Joe Redifer". You know what's even easier than remembering my awesomely easy cell phone number? Programming it into the phone and just scrolling down to "Lord Joe Redifer" and pressing the call button.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 12-28-2006 09:09 PM                     First, a question. Are there such a thing as assed chaps? In other words, are not all chaps without butt covers and therefore "buttless chaps" is redundant? Now on to the original topic: I have had a model V3C Razor through US Cellular, a company likely unavailable to most of you, and I have no complaints. The reception is great when I travel and the speaker phone works well. The only thing is that you have to spell the entry theater instead of theatre to use the voice dialing, otherwise it will not recognize it unless you pronounce it thee-a-tray instead of thee-a-ter (sorry I cannot type the real phonetics to make it more clear). I have dropped it a few times. My wife and I have each owned one for 9 months. I love my ringtones, but not because I think they are cool. In fact, they annoy me. They do, however, let me know who is calling since I assign different songs to different people. Working in a theatre, if my phone rings, I don't want to take time to look at my phone if I'm in a rush, especially if I have oil on my hands. If it's the bosses' ringtone, I answer. If it is a friend, I can disregard and go about my business. Valuable feature as I see it.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-28-2006 10:34 PM                     I used to have one of those old Nokia phones... The model 3100 or something like that. I don't know for sure. But it was the most durable phone I've ever had. That thing took a BEATING! I dropped it off a 55 foot high catwalk to the stage deck below. Only cracked the shell. Put on a new shell and it was good as new. Dropped it out of my pocket, onto the pavement or what have you, countless times. Ran it over with my car once. Replaced the shell again. Good as new. Dropped it in a toilet. Took it apart, removed the battery, wasked it out and dried it with a hair dryer. STILL keep on ticking! Took a trip through the clothes dryer once. I noticed the sound of it knocking around in there and stopped the dryer. It came out all toasty warm but unscathed. FINALLY, I dropped it into the dishwasher and ran it through a full cycle, heat dry and all. THAT finally killed it! But, since it was only two weeks until my contract was up I re-upped for another year and got a new phone with the deal. This time it was the Motorola V-60. What a piece of shit! If the Razr is anything like the V-60 in terms of quality, I feel sorry for you!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-28-2006 11:13 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer remembering my awesomely easy cell phone number I wanna get a phone number that's all "twos." Then everyone will know my number. I'll say "Just press two for awhile. And when I answer, stop." - Mitch Hedberg  |  IP: Logged

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