Nokia X6
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- Horp
Phone batteries are fucking awesome.
I got a new mobile with my new job. I don't like phones and everyone who knows me knows it, so I never get calls and I never make them either. Texts and emails are my comfort zone.
So when I got the new phone I decided there was no sense in me being one of the two phone people. I retired my Nokia X6. That was three months ago.
I really love the Nokia alarm call song. Its the nicest way to wake up in the mornings, so I re-purposed my old phone as my bedside clock. I took the sim out to prevent it from trying to connect to a dead network, so all it does now is tell the time and on the rare occassion I sleep past my wake up point it will gently lull me to life with its melody.That happens maybe once a week.
My Nokia has been sat by my bedside for three months now, and the battery has only just this morning dropped one bar from being fully charged. When these batteries have absolutely nothing to do but tell the time, they can be on full charge for a quarter of a year.
That means one charge could last an entire year. We'll see.
Meanwhile, the Blackberry phone I got given for work struggles to stay alive for an entire working day and I am invariably left without a phone if I get the late train home and forgot to charge it up at work before I left. That is despite charging it over night every night.
Just thought I'd join you all in discussing all these phones we're all so passionate about.
- Horp0
No takers?
Hey, it has shitty maps and the plastic dinks every time you drop it.
Interested now?
- Fax_Benson0
That's a lovely story - I did much the same thing with a really old nokia that had a torch light on the end. Didn't use it to make calls, just charged it up and left it by the back door, using it occasionally to go to the shed in the dark. It lasted ages.
Portable telephones, eh?
- Fax_Benson0
If Nokia had marketed it as a torch that was able to make phone calls / texts, people would have gone nuts for it. Imagine a torch with a built-in phone. Outrageous.
Having the phone element as the secondary benefit is a missed marketing opportunity.
Imagine an alarm clock with it's own built-in phone. Hit snooze and then phone the office to say you're running late, all with the same device. Incredible.
- leave it in your trunk for emergencies. can call tow service if needed, and it'll always be charged...sine
- Fax_Benson0
- is that Horp?uan
- are you asking, or suggesting the guy on the other end of the phone is asking?Fax_Benson
- asking, but could the other way around.uan
- Neither of the proposed people is me. I have a pcoekct calender with a built in phone facility so that if I miss an appointment I can call and cancel it.Horp
- can call and cancel it.Horp
- take my wife, please.prophetone
- set0
^
HELLO
YES THIS IS HORP.
- Douglas0
sleep with phone next to head = teh brain canzors