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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: The Moan Ranger on June 09, 2008, 06:34:18 PM
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In view of my work situation and this august forum, I have a free upgrade.
I should get it on Wednesday and then will spend hours configuring it to suit.
User thoughts to follow.
Oh, and it is cheaper than the current phone.
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In view of my work situation and this august forum, I have a free upgrade.
I should get it on Wednesday and then will spend hours configuring it to suit.
User thoughts to follow.
Oh, and it is cheaper than the current phone.
Will it do the emoticon thingies? rubschin:
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Patience, dear Barman, patience.
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Which model?
I recommend the Blackberry Curve to users at work, sometimes a broker will want the Pearl but I try to disuade them as the keypad is too small.
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I am considering one of these. I have discovered that if I am away from my email etc for more than a couple of hours I get very antsy! redface:
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Which model?
I recommend the Blackberry Curve to users at work, sometimes a broker will want the Pearl but I try to disuade them as the keypad is too small.
BlackBerry Curve 8320.
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/device-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C221,P623
Check out the tacky "Getting started" guide!
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I am considering one of these. I have discovered that if I am away from my email etc for more than a couple of hours I get very antsy! redface:
Antsy?
Is this a typo or another young-persons term with which we silver surfers need to be made familiar?
See also: Yumster
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I have never heard of it either rubschin:
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Antsy
Restless or impatient; fidgety: The long wait made the children antsy.
Nervous; apprehensive: “Camps got shot up all the time, but if there wasn't a shoot-up, they'd get antsy” (Harper's).
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And the etymology?
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Americanism!
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To have ants in one's pants "be nervous and fidgety" is from 1939; antsy "agitated, impatient" (1838) embodies the same notion.
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a constant fretful stamping of hooves
rubschin:
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
What is this "paniced" of which you speak? ;D
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Dunno 'bout Antsy ~ more like 'fraid I'll miss my one email a week.
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
What is this "paniced" of which you speak? ;D
"Pan-iced" is a cooking term related to covering a cake with melted chocolate and icing sugar.
Wenchies PhD subject.
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
I can understand it m'dear... all antsy in your pantsy... I feel the same when my stupid interweb connection stops working... again. Banghead
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
I can understand it m'dear... all antsy in your pantsy... I feel the same when my stupid interweb connection stops working... again. Banghead
You wanna get yourself a BlackBerry via a different provider then, as contingency... whistle:
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
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The K has broken on her eyboard
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
I can understand it m'dear... all antsy in your pantsy... I feel the same when my stupid interweb connection stops working... again. Banghead
You wanna get yourself a BlackBerry via a different provider then, as contingency... whistle:
A new gadget you say... for my birthday like... rubschin:
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
I can understand it m'dear... all antsy in your pantsy... I feel the same when my stupid interweb connection stops working... again. Banghead
You wanna get yourself a BlackBerry via a different provider then, as contingency... whistle:
A new gadget you say... for my birthday like... rubschin:
Bugger, we will have to send the fisheye lense back. ::)
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I don't get fretful!
I feel on edge and slightly paniced at the idea things might be going on without me! Antsy!
I can understand it m'dear... all antsy in your pantsy... I feel the same when my stupid interweb connection stops working... again. Banghead
You wanna get yourself a BlackBerry via a different provider then, as contingency... whistle:
A new gadget you say... for my birthday like... rubschin:
Bugger, we will have to send the fisheye lense back. ::)
Hahahahahahahaha!
Bastards! Banghead
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cloud9:
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Anyhoo... I shall be off line for a while... LL and I have to go out and collect water... noooo:
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I can offer PYO Blackberry weekends at reasonable rates to pub regulars . . . whistle:
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How do you stand on TURNIPS?
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Carefully ~ one foot at a time, with your arms spread out for balance like.
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.
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Carefully ~ one foot at a time, with your arms spread out for balance like.
drumroll:
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.
I'm going to have to wait till January then. sad24:
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
Note sure Wenchy - mine is a free upgrade, but if you have a mobile contract I dare say your provider will also upgrade for nothing or little cost.
I'm going to have to wait till January then. sad24:
Who is your provider? Get on the phone to them and get stroppy - you'll be surprised how quickly they capitulate!
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Does Wenchy do stroppy? I thought she was all sugar n spice and all things nice whistle:
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Ask Mr Wench! scared2:
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Ask Mr Wench! scared2:
Well except for certain angry041: weeks that is.
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
Technological non sequitor, surely rubschin: Perhaps it's a RaspBerry?
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How much is a blackberry? Apparently there are pink ones now! cloud9:
Technological non sequitor, surely rubschin: Perhaps it's a RaspBerry?
Wot? As in Raspberry Fool you think?
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The naming of techno gadgetry after soft fruits, indeed any fruits (I have in my possession various Apples ::)) always called for a bit of a ::) if not a whacky115
When Hutchison Whampoa (sp?) sought to get into the mobile network in the UK they came up with ... Rabbit eeek:. I know; I was actually featured in one of the "on pack" pics. The whole thing came to nought but placed them well to obtain licence and market share for their big project...
Yes, Orange ::)
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The corporate mind is a strange thing indeed as I have mentioned elsewhere.
http://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/index.php?topic=3943.0
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Its not just the mobile networks though. If you look at some of the phone manufacturers such as HTC, the names they give their handsets are actually bizarre. According to O2 I own an XDA IIs, but f you look on the HTC site its a blue angel. I'm half convinced that they just have a sack filled with pirces of paper with random words written on them and as soon as they come up with a new product they reach in and pick one out at random.
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Its not just the mobile networks though. If you look at some of the phone manufacturers such as HTC, the names they give their handsets are actually bizarre. According to O2 I own an XDA IIs, but f you look on the HTC site its a blue angel. I'm half convinced that they just have a sack filled with pirces of paper with random words written on them and as soon as they come up with a new product they reach in and pick one out at random.
Would that it was that simple. Corporate and product branding is big business and they spend a fortune on getting the "right" name for their products.
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Wallabee, Himalaya, Blue Angel? I know corproate branding is worth a lot but they seem bizarre names for PDA's given that the people most likely to purchase them are techies and gadget nuts.
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Problem is that so many names have already been registered that they have to keep finding more and more. They then run the various ideas through focus groups and all sorts of other trials to see which gets the desired response. Often they do not tell the people in the test groups what they are naming but rather ask which names/words make them feel "warm" or "comfortable" and which make them "shudder" or feel "cold", which they find "attractive" and which "repellant" and so on until they can go to the client and say "The best response is for Arsehole" and thus another product is named.
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Well, where is it then?
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Well, where is it then?
He prolly has to charge the battery for four days before it will work... whistle:
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Clockwork?
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Clockwork?
Could be...
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Not arrived yet cry:
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Not arrived yet cry:
Wind-up then?
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It's here... cloud9:
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The life cycle of TMR's new Blackberry
Arrives at TMR's
TMR plugs in to charge
Looks at manual
Chucks manual away (I'm a bloke I dont do the manual thing)
Blackberry dies as a result of random button pressing bricking it
Blackberry sent back as still under guarrantee
New one arrives
Repeat until guarrantee runs out whistle:
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New SIM has to be registered first - hopefully within 2 hours.
Then I need to put the new SIM in the old phone to copy across all my numbers. Then that, in theory, should get me up and running!
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New SIM has to be registered first - hopefully within 2 hours.
Then I need to put the new SIM in the old phone to copy across all my numbers. Then that, in theory, should get me up and running!
Ah yes... we've all fallen for that one... noooo:
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Ye of little faith. noooo:
I hope to be able to post my first "new" BlackBerry contribution within two hours.
Where is the "fingers crosssed" emoticon?
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Ye of little faith. noooo:
I hope to be able to post my first "new" BlackBerry contribution within two hours.
Where is the "fingers crosssed" emoticon?
You do realise you've just invoked 'Nick's Law of Technology' scared2:
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Ye of little faith. noooo:
I hope to be able to post my first "new" BlackBerry contribution within two hours.
Where is the "fingers crosssed" emoticon?
Be off-line for a week prolly... noooo:
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Ye of little faith. noooo:
I hope to be able to post my first "new" BlackBerry contribution within two hours.
Where is the "fingers crosssed" emoticon?
Be off-line for a week prolly... noooo:
Judging by today that may be no bad thing.
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Ye of little faith. noooo:
I hope to be able to post my first "new" BlackBerry contribution within two hours.
Where is the "fingers crosssed" emoticon?
Be off-line for a week prolly... noooo:
Judging by today that may be no bad thing.
Indeed... perhaps I should get one after all... rubschin:
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Guess who's back!
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Guess who's back!
Still using the old one then? ::)
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Nope!
Can't get the emoticons, but they work in the "other place". Must be a setting your end
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You may be right TMR, if I try using emoticons on here with my N95 they wipe out all the text in the box.
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Sort it Barman. Or else :-)
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Nope!
Can't get the emoticons, but they work in the "other place". Must be a setting your end
rubschin:
I'll check all the levers and stuff then... whistle:
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eeek:
SMF has three different wireless interfaces:
WAP (.../index.php?wap)
WAP2 (.../index.php?wap2)
I-Mode (.../index.php?imode)
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Chop, chop
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Chop, chop
Well... which one are you using? shrugs:
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eeek:
SMF has three different wireless interfaces:
WAP (.../index.php?wap)
WAP2 (.../index.php?wap2)
I-Mode (.../index.php?imode)
Accept them all ~ what could possibly go wrong?
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eeek:
SMF has three different wireless interfaces:
WAP (.../index.php?wap)
WAP2 (.../index.php?wap2)
I-Mode (.../index.php?imode)
Accept them all ~ what could possibly go wrong?
I didn't even know we had them... I thought it was magic... redface:
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That explains a lot ::)
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That explains a lot ::)
redface:
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Looking at the settings I'd say that WAP was the old mobile web access and WAP2 is gprs. I've only seen I-mode mentioned in O2 adverts so I'm not certain about that one.
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I don't think it does the emoticon stuff...
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=401.0
Pile of shite. noooo:
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
Buyer beware... whistle:
The new version 2.0 will do it... it will be great... no really... whistle:
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I am surrounded by idiots.
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2.0 should allow it, on the other hand TMR could just remember the relevant codes to the ones he usually uses and just type them instead.
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
Buyer beware... whistle:
The new version 2.0 will do it... it will be great... no really... whistle:
Go on then ~ I double dare you to install it TONIGHT!
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2.0 should allow it, on the other hand TMR could just remember the relevant codes to the ones he usually uses and just type them instead.
Indeed... lazy sod... noooo:
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I double triple dare you. eveilgrin:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstudents.stritch.edu%2Fcl2patterson%2Fchicken.jpg&hash=8bb9350bc5f1688934966b6d5f281f24992322a8)
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
Buyer beware... whistle:
The new version 2.0 will do it... it will be great... no really... whistle:
Go on then ~ I double dare you to install it TONIGHT!
You're joking... I'm out on the lash shortly and tomorrow we won't have any power from 7am and it is still in Beta release... and I'm a chicken... redface:
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Tsk!
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Luddites! (On the personal one...)
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Luddites! (On the work one...)
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eh? rubschin:
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Doesn't look any different ~ so much for upgrades eh?
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
Buyer beware... whistle:
The new version 2.0 will do it... it will be great... no really... whistle:
Go on then ~ I double dare you to install it TONIGHT!
You're joking... I'm out on the lash shortly and tomorrow we won't have any power from 7am and it is still in Beta release... and I'm a chicken... redface:
Given those circumstances would you really want him monkeying around with version 2? At the very least we need time to make the preperations (wipe the slate when he's not looking hound whistle: )
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Makes perfect sense to me.
All the usual stuff is enabled but TMR can't work it point:
Ergo: It is not our fault.
P'raps he need to "get a man in"
Buyer beware... whistle:
The new version 2.0 will do it... it will be great... no really... whistle:
Go on then ~ I double dare you to install it TONIGHT!
You're joking... I'm out on the lash shortly and tomorrow we won't have any power from 7am and it is still in Beta release... and I'm a chicken... redface:
Given those circumstances would you really want him monkeying around with version 2? At the very least we need time to make the preperations (wipe the slate when he's not looking hound whistle: )
rubschin: Good point.
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They weren't meant to - they are simple text messages and the point is, for the simpletons with their Simple Message Forum is that I can now post two messages simultaneously.
OK?!
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Maybe so but they still appear here consecutively ~ with a five second time gap whistle:
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V2.0 will be great... but its not ready yet... noooo:
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They weren't meant to - they are simple text messages and the point is, for the simpletons with their Simple Message Forum is that I can now post two messages simultaneously.
OK?!
How do you spell 'whoopy do'? rubschin:
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It is spelled a bit like 'balding Barman takes a right shoeing".
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It is spelled a bit like 'balding Barman takes a right shoeing".
lol: lol: lol:
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I shall try turning on all the "bits" that probably aren't turned on in the standard config.
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Not a bad plan.
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Still no joy - all aspects are now displayed in a more a "Winfile" style. Which is good for us oldies!
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We'll have to wait for BM to pluck up courage and do the upgrade then.
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Ok. Until then, I shall have to put up written emoticons and rely on the good nature of the mods to put them in place. (Smiley)
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You'll be wanting one of us to stand at the bottom of the screen translating your deathless prose into British Sign Language next evil:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fjellyfishenglish.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fsignalpha-web.gif&hash=81142c4f316f8852988a7145488ee06b72108d2f)
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You'll be wanting one of us to stand at the bottom of the screen translating your deathless prose into British Sign Language next evil:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fjellyfishenglish.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fsignalpha-web.gif&hash=81142c4f316f8852988a7145488ee06b72108d2f)
eeek:
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You'll be wanting one of us to stand at the bottom of the screen translating your deathless prose into British Sign Language next evil:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fjellyfishenglish.files.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fsignalpha-web.gif&hash=81142c4f316f8852988a7145488ee06b72108d2f)
K I V
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I am now all "BlackBerried" up and so far I have to say I am impressed (apart from the emoticons issue).
I had a few niggles getting my personal e-mail sorted and the Bluetoooth connectivity isn't as logical as it could be, but other than that - pretty damn good.
Wenchy, you have to get yourself one of these!
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I am now all "BlackBerried" up and so far I have to say I am impressed (apart from the emoticons issue).
I had a few niggles getting my personal e-mail sorted and the Bluetoooth connectivity isn't as logical as it could be, but other than that - pretty damn good.
Wenchy, you have to get yourself one of these!
Yes Wenchy... click here immediately...
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Or just scream at your provider until the provide a free (or heavily discounted) one.
Go for it.
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Best price £304.95 or Buy new £304.95
Hmmm... somehow... noooo:
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You know you want one...
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You know you want one...
Yes... click it! eveilgrin:
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The friends I know who have one seem to be in service to them... constant pinging midst meal or conversation noooo:
The revelation that Madonna has her's under her pillow is indictment enough. I almost warm to the idea of Will Self filing the Volvo logo off his vehicle's cylinder block in anti corporate, focussed rage spider:
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But you need never be VPless again!
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But you need never be VPless again!
That is not necessarily a recommendation noooo:
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How very dare you!
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razz:
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Indeed Wenchy. I have VP in a RP thanks to it.
The "maps" on the new BB are pretty bloody good too - who needs a SatNav!
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The other bonus!
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And the camera - a "mere" 2.0 megapixels is very good too - although doubtless the crystal clear screen helps.
Battery life wise - I charged it on Friday morning and by this morning it was down to 40%. Not bad considering I've been fiddling with it (the BlackBerry...) most of the weekend. I have also altered a few settings (like "Screen Brilliance") which should reduce power requirements.
Grot on Google image search is also extremely clear redface:
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I never bother using my camera phone. I have a perfectly adequate camera so why would I bother!
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I never bother using my camera phone. I have a perfectly adequate camera so why would I bother!
because Mr. Wench doesn't let you take your camera in case you lose it? whistle:
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I never bother using my camera phone. I have a perfectly adequate camera so why would I bother!
I agree - but it's handy to have for those spontaneous moments where you may not have your "proper" camera to hand.
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I have trusty point and shoot in my bag at all times! cloud9:
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eeek:
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I have trusty point and shoot in my bag at all times! cloud9:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FaVos9OA.jpg&hash=d0006f929e7dba282e97d3481fb3fee08c2d6c9d) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVos9OA)
scared2: scared2: scared2:
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I have trusty point and shoot in my bag at all times! cloud9:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.olive-drab.com%2Fgallery%2Fphotos%2Fpistol_m9_500.jpg&hash=bb76a3753672c1429767ec3116a9844d0702a47f)
scared2: scared2: scared2:
Red X ~ that's worse than I had imagined
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I have trusty point and shoot in my bag at all times!
So do I.
Well, not exactly in my bag, but very close.
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And does it really still Point and Shoot? whistle:
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And does it really still Point and Shoot? whistle:
noooo: surrender:
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And does it really still Point and Shoot? whistle:
noooo: surrender:
Me neither. noooo:
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I was mucking about with the BB yesterday and connected to the realpub's Wi-Fi. All well and good.
Thought no more of it and toddled off home - to be awoken at midnight by the BB issuing its "battery low" warning. So, from fully charged to flat in ten hours...
I have learnt a lesson.
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Which is don't go to the pub? eeek:
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More like dont get so ratted you forget to switch off the wi-fi Wenchy. whistle:
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Yes Grumpmeister - I mistakenly thought that once out of range it will simply revert to standard, but no - it keeps on trying to connect to any signal it can find.
Still, isn't it good to run the battery right down now and then? Or summat like that?
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redface:
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redface:
Dont worry, you can still get your Wenchyberry without having to consider battery life. whistle:
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Yes Grumpmeister - I mistakenly thought that once out of range it will simply revert to standard, but no - it keeps on trying to connect to any signal it can find.
Still, isn't it good to run the battery right down now and then? Or summat like that?
Whenever I have had a battery go duff on me that is the story they trot out. "Batteries have a memory and you need to fully discharge them every so often"
Utter bollox. It's a fvcking lithium cell ~ it cannot think, it cannot reason and it certainly cannot remember.
Basically battery technology lags a long way behind the applications we wish to put them to.
Make a better battery you w@nkers! cussing:
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redface:
Dont worry, you can still get your Wenchyberry without having to consider battery life. whistle:
True, she needs her batteries fully charged for other devices whistle:
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redface:
Dont worry, you can still get your Wenchyberry without having to consider battery life. whistle:
True, she needs her batteries fully charged for other devices whistle:
rubschin: Surely not eyes: devices? Not our Wenchy.
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I have no idea what you mean! eeek:
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I have no idea what you mean! eeek:
point:
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I have no idea what you mean! eeek:
point:
Oh I think she does whistle:
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noooo:
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IPods, Torches, Remote Controls for TV, DVD etc. whistle:
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Ahhhh gadgets! Right!