Having "everything on one device"

Tefal · 24 Jun 2013 at 17:50

Lysander said:
But there's the rub, they're not more convenient. It's hardly convenient for me to want to listen to music on the way to work only to find I have no battery to do it on the way home. If I need to make an important call I can't. If I want to send a text I can't.

I don't want to have to charge my phone while at work. I shouldn't have to. Time was when a phone could go a week on a single charge, now they can't go a day. Yes, they do more but it makes things far more inconvenient in the long run.

you can get second batteries for most phones for under a tenner...

tbh a fair few of your problems could be solved by reading your phones manual to find the features you want.

The Running Man · 24 Jun 2013 at 17:53

Preference really has to be for my old se walkman phone that has amazing battery life and is a small super phone. Plus a tablet like device.

Phones will simplify IMO and go back to small after this fad.

Typed from galaxy s2

CaptainComedy · 24 Jun 2013 at 19:49

get some google glasses, you won't ever need to look at your phone then

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jun 2013 at 20:04

Lysander said:
As I've said, it's about how well the phone can do them.

It depends on what phone you have which you haven't told us yet.

I can honestly say that my S3 is a much better MP3 player (with Poweramp) than my 32 gig iPod and I can get way more tracks on it because I have a 64 gig card.
The camera is better than a £150 point & click Sony I used for many years.
The Satnav (using Co-Pilot) has never let me down.
The Alarm clock is way better than my bedside one because I can set multiple alarms up (I have 3 in a morning).
I sold a Garmin GPS unit I had for running/cycling because Strava on the S3 is just as good.
I could go on.

However today I have been using an Orange San Fransisco and been ready to kill myself.

R-evans · 24 Jun 2013 at 20:09

You obviously need a better smartphone with more features. (that you can wear on your wrist)

[TW]Fox · 24 Jun 2013 at 20:14

Lysander said:
Time was when a phone could go a week on a single charge, now they can't go a day.

Actually they can - simply disable data and set the phone to GSM only mode and you'll get as much as a week out of it.

Oh you mean you don't want that? Well thats what you had in 'time when a phone could go a week on a single charge'?