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Article #119Re: Frustrated with small phones
From: John Leister
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:52
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:52
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Rod Speed wrote: > "Kalico" <rd@kalico.org> wrote in message news:ee1a5043.0302140555.40290bb4@posting.google.com... > > John Leister <fyrdemon@senet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3E4C8438.BB61FABF@senet.com.au>... > > > Trouble is not many phone manufacturers make phones > > > that are large. The biggest phone I have is an old 1630 > > > which is dead but when it was working it was a joy to > > > use ad it had large characters on the screen very easy > > > to read etc. etc. > > > > > > I'm coping with my current phone but only just..... > > > > I had to get my old Siemens S10 (I think its an S10) out of the drawer > > when my phone packed up recently. I have to say it was a joy to use > > and the call clarity was superb. There seemed something right about > > holding it in my hand and the microphone actually being near my mouth > > rather than feeling like I was scratching my ear and the mike being > > god knows where. > > > > BUT, it looks ridiculous now, although it is still slimmer than many > > phones on the market now. > > > > My feeling is that phones will get bigger again as people demand > > better screens and a small Qwerty keyboard on their phone, > > The Nokia 5510 was that. It flopped very spectacularly indeed. How so? I thought it was quite popular in it's time..........
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10774d,b62b7a552c9d953d X-Google-Attributes: gid10774d,public X-Google-Thread: 10f383,b62b7a552c9d953d X-Google-Attributes: gid10f383,public X-Google-Thread: 10db0e,b62b7a552c9d953d X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0e,public X-Google-Thread: fb718,b62b7a552c9d953d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb718,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-14 16:53:58 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!1cust145.tnt9.adl1.da.uu.NET!not-for-mail From: John Leister <fyrdemon@senet.com.au> Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,aus.comms.mobile,alt.cellular.nokia,alt.cellular Subject: Re: Frustrated with small phones Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:22:49 +1030 Organization: Much Chaos Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3E4D8F61.8FB812CF@senet.com.au> References: <7106702e.0302130742.247e9082@posting.google.com> <3E4C8438.BB61FABF@senet.com.au> <ee1a5043.0302140555.40290bb4@posting.google.com> <b2jdcd$1br814$1@ID-69072.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust145.tnt9.adl1.da.uu.net (63.12.14.145) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045270436 46855219 63.12.14.145 (16 [123205]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en