Future Screens Are Mostly Blue

Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by loup-vaillant on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:34AM (#11579787)

If only we stopped calling them "phones"… They're palmtops after all.

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by floordaemon on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:09AM (#11580030)

I use a tiny disposable Tracfone and a new iPod Touch.

Sure I could combine them in an iPhone, but I don't think they need to be tied together.

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by saalweachter on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:22PM (#11585976)

I use a separate music player just because I like non-singular points of failure.

The idea of carrying a single object that is your means of communication / music player / camera / train ticket / monetary instrument / entertainment center is neat, until you think about your battery dying / losing it / dropping it and having it crack in half when you're a hundred miles from home.

I guess it is less bad if you tend to travel in packs, and would always have a backup in that way.

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by asimuvPR on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:56AM (#11580441)

I also did that for a while, but then people in my social circle moved on to whatsapp and would never answer their phone or texts... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by msh on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:40PM (#11582624)

There are Nokia feature phones that comes with whatsapp.

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by asimuvPR on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @02:20PM (#11583070)

Could you link to some, please?

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Re:Future Screens Are Mostly Blue by msh on Sunday May 01, 2016 @03:35PM (#11607547)

See here: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/s40/21099128

But apparently they have now announced that they are end of life.

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