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

Rroff said:
I dunno what it was like in the 90s but you can literally ask for a position, heading/altitude and/or speed check without having to explain yourself. Sometimes conditions can mean you can't rely on your sensors, etc. sounds more like a dangerous level of inexperience on your friend's part.

Though UK air space is a pretty horrid mess of controlled air space, service level and flight rules :s
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We had followed ground markers all the way down, it was a clear day.
Perhaps it wasn't his first time!!
 
Reality|Bites said:
Coming from the opposite side, don't you find it worrying how you feel you are unable to cope without your mobile phone?
I mean how did we all manage to survive before hand? we should have been extinct by now :p
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It was awful.
When me and my Mrs were first going out we had to arrange a time to be at a phone box because neither of us had a landline.
When you got to the phone box there was more likely a queue (at either end) so your 6pm call might have been at 7pm.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
It was awful.
When me and my Mrs were first going out we had to arrange a time to be at a phone box because neither of us had a landline.
When you got to the phone box there was more likely a queue (at either end) so your 6pm call might have been at 7pm.
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I remember going to the phone box to prank call people lol oh boy the days without mobile phones. How fun!
 
Reality|Bites said:
Is that the peoples problem or Swedish Governments?
If I were to be arrested today and asked for ID...I have nothing what to do?
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I'm gonna interpret that as if you get arrested without ID what happens?
I dunno what happens in the uk. I think they might detain you untill you produce said ID.
I've never actually been arrested or asked for my ID on the occasions I've had police contact, both good and bad :p

Sweden you just give your state national insurance number, which does 99% of everything, and they basically have your life on a screen. Faking that would be complex.
 
Bouton Aide said:
I remember going to the phone box to prank call people lol oh boy the days without mobile phones. How fun!
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Same. We got some code that gave you unlimited credit. Pranktastic. One time a police car turned up and we had to run like the wind.
 
£20 credit lasts well over a year, but I suppose I do use one sometimes. Texts and voice calls only however I rarely carry it on me.
 
Bouton Aide said:
Can ya remember the BT Cellnet phone cheat where you got free credit?
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Actually not. My first phones were from work who insisted I have one on my travels for them. I have always been more of a desktop person even resisting laptops until given one in addition to my work desktop computer.
Now retired, I have a spanking home built desktop for gaming etc, this tablet I am typing on lying down at the moment and a grandad mobile somewhere in the house.
 
Anyone used a press button B payphone - you just tapped out the number you wanted for free on the phone cradle. - This is going back to late 60's for me.
 
Lately i've noticed that i leave my phone in one corner and forget about it for few hours. Then pick it up reply to any messages, and then rinse and repeat, leave the phone towards one side.
 
I do like Google Maps but I used to manage fine with an A-Z and actually planning my route in my head... we all know when sat navs send people into stupid locations
 
Reality|Bites said:
How did people cope before the internet and chatting to random on said internet? what did we used to do before?
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Picked up a home phone and called people. Wrote letters. Arranged to meet up with people at a specific date and time and if you were late then... well, you were late and they had probably left that location. If you missed the meetup time with your mates at the pub then you had to wander around their usual haunts to try and fine them.
 
DXP55 said:
Anyone used a press button B payphone - you just tapped out the number you wanted for free on the phone cradle. - This is going back to late 60's for me.
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Yes. I can still remember the feel of the buttons.

We also had a proper dial phone at home. In fact we had one mounted on the hall wall with a a reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllly long handset cable to wander into other rooms.

Does anyone else recall getting than curly handset cable all tangled up? Once you tangle it once it never quite went back to normal afterwards.

EDIT: Also... the days when the dialling code for London was just "01"... 01 811 8055 ;)
 
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