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From: D.M. Procida on 30 Jan 2010 05:33 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > I doubt I've sent as many as fifty in my life! > > Oh get with the program grandad. Make it 51, I sent another last night. Hip to the beat, Daddy-o! Daniele
From: Geoff Berrow on 30 Jan 2010 05:44 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:12:24 +0000, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: >> I doubt I've sent as many as fifty in my life! > >I send a lot, but only from the computer. Every time I start typing out >a text on the phone (numeric keypad with predictive texting) it strikes >me it would be faster to just call. I send far more (and longer) texts with the iPhone. I feel it's levelled the playing field between me and my children :-) It's useful for when you need to send some information, or for when you know the other person is busy, driving or if you just don't want to get into an extended conversation. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 30 Jan 2010 06:35 On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:58:21 +0000, me9(a)privacy.net (Bella Jones) wrote: >Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >> >> > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> > >> > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> > > >> > > > I have noticed since having an iPhone that my texting rate has shot up >> > > > >> > > > as it works much better - do they give you enough of that? >> > > >> > > The number of texts I send a month has more than tripled, from just >> > > under a hundred to usually just over three hundred... And the hundred a >> > > month was on a Treo, which was already pretty easy for texts due to the >> > > qwerty keyboard. Before that I probably sent less than fifty. >> > >> > I doubt I've sent as many as fifty in my life! >> >> Oh get with the program grandad. >> >> I would imagine i have sent as many texts on the iPhone as all my other >> phones combined. > >I've just read all the iPhone threads for the last two months and I am >still totally in the dark as to what deal I should go for. Pathetic, I >know. Low usage - best value to get a 3GS-16gig PAYG. High usage - get the lowest cost contract you can find, and up it if you need to. Cheers - Jaimie -- >So, what do *you* do for a living? I sit in a chair pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers while peering at many tiny, colored dots. -- Peter Manders
From: Dorian Gray on 30 Jan 2010 08:24 In article <1jd4myo.ld7kt3g546oeN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid>, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > Every time I start typing out > a text on the phone (numeric keypad with predictive texting) it strikes > me it would be faster to just call. That's true, and I feel the same, but there are other reasons people (especially women) often use texting as a multi-tasking tool (going somewhere while talking to one person, texting another, and thinking about something else altogether). Having to talk to a man on the phone who demands their FULL attention (or at least the appearance of it - since we can't multitask well we assume women can't either), wrecks their work-flow. Ahem... </gender-generalization> People in general also often prefer texts because it means they can keep private what they are talking about on the phone from the other people they're with, as well as not divulging where they are or who they are with, to the person at the other end of the phone. Texts can also be useful while in seminars, in packed trains, etc, where a phone call might be rude/impossible because of those around you. So the person you might want to call might not be able to pick up the call, but can read and answer a text. I would prefer to leave a Voicemail if they can't pick up, but I find that people find them inconvenient compared to reading a text. For one thing, you can't surreptitiously listen to a Voicemail, which you would probably need to do if you're in a situation where you can't take a call. Plus it takes a lot longer.
From: Chris Ridd on 30 Jan 2010 08:30
On 2010-01-30 10:33:22 +0000, D.M. Procida said: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >>> I doubt I've sent as many as fifty in my life! >> >> Oh get with the program grandad. > > Make it 51, I sent another last night. Hip to the beat, Daddy-o! Many happy returns you old codger! -- Chris |