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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:55PM (#14267638)
I refer to it occasionally as my hand terminal.

That said, it sucks as a hand terminal, because everything it does everything through vendor-locked, cloud-enabled shitty apps with almost no interoperability. If this is how future of computing is going to look, then I'm sorely disappointed.

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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by jpindar on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:58PM (#14268763)
What sort of interoperability are you lacking? I have apps on my phone that can view or edit most of the file formats I use regularly, and transferring files is easy enough (with or without a network connection). The apps are not as full featured as the equivalent desktop program, but I don't need them to be.
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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by thenanyu on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:09PM (#14267764)
Sig. other and I call it "device" as in "did you see where I put my device?"
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