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From: Peter Ceresole on 12 May 2010 07:11 They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff. Smells nice. One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He was using an iPhone. Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them to get that kind of penetration. -- Peter
From: Bruce Horrocks on 12 May 2010 07:28 On 12/05/2010 12:11, Peter Ceresole wrote: > They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're > levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff. > Smells nice. > > One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He > was using an iPhone. > > Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them > to get that kind of penetration. > Presumably he uses the GPS for navvy-gation? -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: T i m on 12 May 2010 08:33 On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:11:32 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He >was using an iPhone. > Might be lucky it was a nice quite wheelbarrow not a noisy van or the generally hubbub of the high street. I was out and about with a mate last week and in one 2 hour period I saw him looking at his iPhone and saying stuff like "oh, two missed calls", saw him trying to answer calls and having them hang / drop out / not answer and a call cut out after a few seconds and this wasn't in the sticks. He's even got an app to change the ringtone to summat louder but it would seem it might not be loud enough yet (that or it didn't actually ring, I didn't hear it either). But the fact that it's less than a brilliant 'telephone' (for him and a good few others I read) doesn't seem to stop people buying them as it doesn't seem to stop people buying WinBoxes? Another mate who runs a small chain of fashion shops bought 5 iPhones, one for each store manager but went over to Blackberries, partly because of the poor telephony. Could depend on where you are based of course, how good the general coverage is in that area. [1] The fact that it might not be a brilliant 'phone' shouldn't be a surprise to any of us that have ever had more than one phone of course as there are good and bad models of all makes. It will be interesting to see what happens when folk get their iPads, if they go back to having that and a basic Nokia / whatever for the phone side (especially if they aren't lucky re coverage where they are regularly etc). Cheers, T i m [1] Where daughter is in Scotland they only get Voda in the house and only just get a couple of others (Orange / T-Mob I think) outside.
From: D.M. Procida on 12 May 2010 08:49 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > On 12/05/2010 12:11, Peter Ceresole wrote: > > They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're > > levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff. > > Smells nice. > > > > One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He > > was using an iPhone. > > > > Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them > > to get that kind of penetration. > > > > Presumably he uses the GPS for navvy-gation? The poncey joss-stick-sniffing Perrier-breathed fashion-victim fanboi. Danele
From: Hugh Browton on 12 May 2010 09:51
On Wed, 12 May 2010 13:33:14 +0100, T i m wrote (in article <6q6lu596qf3h0db1kqmj85cr63ltd14m7i(a)4ax.com>): > On Wed, 12 May 2010 12:11:32 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > Ceresole) wrote: > > > It will be interesting to see what happens when folk get their iPads, > if they go back to having that and a basic Nokia / whatever for the > phone side (especially if they aren't lucky re coverage where they are > regularly etc). > Oh - that's a thought -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002) |