Mobile phones, anyone else who doesn't need one?

Reality|Bites said:
As the title I just don't see the point in owning one for myself, I'm either busy at work and it would be stuck in my locker ( don't get me started on young ones in work checking there twitter )
If i'm not at work i'm at home or out somewhere where I don't really want to stop what i'm doing to answer a phone call.
I don't really know what i'm asking tbh, I suppose I'm asking why should I get one?
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Sounds like you don't need one.
 
OspreyO said:
Even your own example doesn't need any extras to do the journey suggested. You don't even need the GPS on the whole time.
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Which journey is this? The one where you need 3 weeks worth of spare battery?

OspreyO said:
I've been around for decades before Smartphones. Maybe humans existed before that even...
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Yes, but we have smartphones now, so you no longer need to go hiking like a caveman... right?

OspreyO said:
Reminds me a someone at work who insisted on going the same long way to work for years even after a much shorter route was show to them.
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What makes you think the shorter route was better?
Maybe the longer route was nicer, or went via his favourite pub...
 
Just had a look and the cheapest 5G is still around £300 ouch.

If I simply wanted a better battery theres the moto G10 for £129, but no point as its still only 4G.

My E4 barely lasts 8 hours on standby, only a 2000 MAH battery.
 
I'll take a longer route sometimes to avoid things like certain roundabouts with horrible layouts, etc. I know someone (not me) who takes a longer route to work to avoid going past their old workplace as they get worked up over stuff which happened there leading to them leaving.
 
ttaskmaster said:
And?
Doesn't explain why it was better, either for you or for him...
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That said it was. Also it meant they didn't have to keep stopping to look up the compass and map. In addition it avoided horrible roundabouts, layouts and their old work place which had painful memories. It was also both shorter and longer as they preferred.
 
OspreyO said:
That said it was. Also it meant they didn't have to keep stopping to look up the compass and map. In addition it avoided horrible roundabouts, layouts and their old work place which had painful memories. It was also both shorter and longer as they preferred.
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Okay, so it was better in every way you can possibly imagine... and yet the person with the choice still chose the longer route, so it clearly wasn't better... just shorter.
Incidentally, the shorter routes through certain places often take three times as long due to all the traffic lights and are depressingly dull journeys. Shorter is not always better.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Traffic I get no choice in, as I have to go where the customer/work site is and if that's in the middle of traffic then it's tough luck. I also can't use the phone while driving, so most such features are not an option anyway.
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Eh? Traffic routing gives you the most efficient route to get to your destination, avoiding traffic. It seems highly unlikely that there is only one possible route to each job site.

Of course you can use the nav abilities of a phone while driving, that's what Android Auto and Apple Car Play are for! Or just use a phone holder and voila, you have a GPS unit better than any standalone TomTom.
 
Von Luck said:
Eh? Traffic routing gives you the most efficient route to get to your destination, avoiding traffic. It seems highly unlikely that there is only one possible route to each job site.
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Most of the time the traffic is caused by the work site or the asset failure I'm going to, so whichever road I take I'll be right in the middle of it.

Von Luck said:
Of course you can use the nav abilities of a phone while driving, that's what Android Auto and Apple Car Play are for! Or just use a phone holder and voila, you have a GPS unit better than any standalone TomTom.
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If I use the phone at all while driving, I get fired......
 
You don't have to use the phone while driving. I get in my car, turn on the ignition and hey presto, wireless Android Auto appears on car head unit, tap in destination and off I go with fully guided traffic avoidance, never having to touch my phone.
 
Von Luck said:
You don't have to use the phone while driving. I get in my car, turn on the ignition and hey presto, wireless Android Auto appears on car head unit, tap in destination and off I go with fully guided traffic avoidance, never having to touch my phone.
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You're wasting your time. He'll come back with the track the phones use. Use your own phone, there's a camera in the cab. Etc. Voice commands, they record the audio in the cab.

I now know what was meant by this post at the start of this thread. ..

dLockers said:
Great, arguing to become a cave man to prove the point. Textbook ttaskmasker GD content 9/10 wouldn't read again
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Von Luck said:
You don't have to use the phone while driving. I get in my car, turn on the ignition and hey presto, wireless Android Auto appears on car head unit, tap in destination and off I go with fully guided traffic avoidance, never having to touch my phone.
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Our fleet are mostly base spec Vauxhalls. They don't come with anything more fancy than a radio.

OspreyO said:
You're wasting your time. He'll come back with the track the phones use. Use your own phone, there's a camera in the cab. Etc. Voice commands, they record the audio in the cab.
I now know what was meant by this post at the start of this thread. ..
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And this is why I like ******* you tech-elites off so much. Somebody does something that isn't the way you'd like it, you get all up in arms about it... You're like Flat-Earthers and devout religious people who think their way is the only way!
 
ttaskmaster said:
Okay, so it was better in every way you can possibly imagine... and yet the person with the choice still chose the longer route, so it clearly wasn't better... just shorter.
Incidentally, the shorter routes through certain places often take three times as long due to all the traffic lights and are depressingly dull journeys. Shorter is not always better.
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Its not my opinion. The other driver said it was better in everyway. We did a work survey of 1000 people. 100% people choose the new route. Time magazine even ran a cover the "Best commuting route of the Year".
 
OspreyO said:
You're wasting your time. He'll come back with the track the phones use. Use your own phone, there's a camera in the cab. Etc. Voice commands, they record the audio in the cab.

I now know what was meant by this post at the start of this thread. ..
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Lol I was going to post here a few minutes ago and reiterate that but nope'd out of it.
 
I wish I didn't need one but having kids a wife and career it's a must. I do flick back to my Sony Ericsson T28 flip phone every now and again though:D
 
ttaskmaster said:
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And this is why I like ******* you tech-elites off so much. Somebody does something that isn't the way you'd like it, you get all up in arms about it... You're like Flat-Earthers and devout religious people who think their way is the only way!
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hate to break it to you, but the flat earther here is the luddite unwilling to embrace change.
 
Von Luck said:
You don't have to use the phone while driving. I get in my car, turn on the ignition and hey presto, wireless Android Auto appears on car head unit, tap in destination and off I go with fully guided traffic avoidance, never having to touch my phone.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to have such head units or upto date cars
 
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