Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> Now, if someone would actual make a cell phone that was a REAL PHONE
> (i.e., not a camera, PDA, web browser, ad. nauseum -- just a
> telephone!) and you did not need a microscope to read the caller id
> information, I would be VERY happy!!

Well, I don't know about the microscope, but I really like my Nokia
5190.  (There's also the 5180, for European use.)  It's not quite just
a telephone; it has a clock, a minimal phone book, but that's about it.
Not even a calendar - the clock has no date, just the time.

And, it's large enough I don't feel I need a pair of tweezers to hold
it.  With the larger-capacity battery, I get (my idea of) decent
battery life out of it, something like four days of standby with maybe
fifteen minutes of use scattered over them.

To bring it back to security, it probably is substantially more secure
than most phones, too, since it doesn't support a lot of the things
that holes occur in (web browsing and java come to mind).

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