They did joke about not having a swappable battery with the S4/S5, but then the S6 didn't come with a swappable battery (or upgradable storage). Hope it's not this case again!
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The notch disease is spreading
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I still have nightmares of using my grandma's old rotary phone... and u get through 7 or 8 of the numbers... and u screwed up one and had to start all over.
Ack, I have that same nightmare, too! I mean maybe you’re remembering how difficult they were to use. For me I did have a recurring nightmare for years about it. I’m trying to dial out for some emergency or reach someone and I can’t get the danged number dialed properly and have to start all over.I still have nightmares of using my grandma's old rotary phone... and u get through 7 or 8 of the numbers... and u screwed up one and had to start all over.
The thing is, in real waking life, we were among the first in the neighborhood to get touch tone phones. My dad worked for “the Bell System” starting before the divestiture all the way to his part of it becoming Verizon. So he had to have the latest and greatest!
My mom was so proud of the touch tone phone in the kitchen because it was the fashion forward trendy color of avocado green!
I had a toy rotary phone. I got excited when I “upgraded” to a toy touch tone phone.
My husband used to call me on a rotary phone when we were dating. His parents had that phone in their basement until just a few years ago when they moved to the retirement apartments. I bought a super long cord for my pink bedroom phone so I could put the phone through the window and take it outside where I could talk to my friends and still enjoy being outdoors. I was so excited when my dad bought us Cobra cordless phones but they didn’t work well so I went back to the pink corded phone.
That is what I have been reading as well. Supposedly the new iphone X Plus will be the same price as the current iphone X.
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I really hope the Note 9 does NOT have a notch. I really hope Samsung does not follow the herd on the notch.
Yes, I really had that same actual nightmare. Exact same thing... some kind of emergency, and u have to dial quick, and you keep trying and trying and you keep messing up at the end...!
5 + months is not around the corner, when has a new iPhone ever been cheaper?
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I agree, i am 5 months in with the X and have debated swapping many a time.
I used to be able to tap rotary phonesI still have nightmares of using my grandma's old rotary phone... and u get through 7 or 8 of the numbers... and u screwed up one and had to start all over.
I used to be able to tap rotary phones
When i read your post i had to look at your user name to make sure it wasnt OldSchoolMacGuy....
But then they did bring Wireless Charging with S6 and brought back Upgradable Memory with S7.
The latter was an issue with their new storage technology that at first did not play well with removable storage.
I finally got to view that video in full and it is encouraging. I hope it keeps the headphone jack and gets a beefier battery. A beefier battery would tempt me to upgrade.
Ack, I have that same nightmare, too! I mean maybe you’re remembering how difficult they were to use. For me I did have a recurring nightmare for years about it. I’m trying to dial out for some emergency or reach someone and I can’t get the danged number dialed properly and have to start all over.
The thing is, in real waking life, we were among the first in the neighborhood to get touch tone phones. My dad worked for “the Bell System” starting before the divestiture all the way to his part of it becoming Verizon. So he had to have the latest and greatest!
My mom was so proud of the touch tone phone in the kitchen because it was the fashion forward trendy color of avocado green!
I had a toy rotary phone. I got excited when I “upgraded” to a toy touch tone phone.
I bought a super long cord for my pink bedroom phone so I could put the phone through the window and take it outside where I could talk to my friends and still enjoy being outdoors. I was so excited when my dad bought us Cobra cordless phones but they didn’t work well so I went back to the pink corded phone.
I mainly caught keypad phones, but I still caught rotary phones to a large extent. What a pain, you had to make sure and rotate ALL the way for the number to register, and they were so slow rotating back between numbers.
Didn't someone make a rotary smartphone or something nuts like that a few years ago?
And there'll be an outcry from the notchphiles. "Why would apple make a stupid looking design WITHOUT a notch?!".
I don’t know about a rotary smart phone but I recall there was a conventional phone handset that could be attached to a smartphone. Plus some weird docking arrangements.
I was able to find a picture of an avocado green phone like the one my parents still have. Imagine this in a kitchen with Harvest Gold Appliances.
I don’t know about a rotary smart phone but I recall there was a conventional phone handset that could be attached to a smartphone. Plus some weird docking arrangements.
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I was able to find a picture of an avocado green phone like the one my parents still have. Imagine this in a kitchen with Harvest Gold Appliances.
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Right there with ya GM. Until last summer when my mom finally moved out of the home I spend the latter portion of my childhood in, there was one of these in the basement, still wired up on one of my dad’s old workbenches.
And I also grew up with one of these on the wall of my early childhood home.
Yes, I’m f’n old.
Right there with ya GM. Until last summer when my mom finally moved out of the home I spend the latter portion of my childhood in, there was one of these in the basement, still wired up on one of my dad’s old workbenches.
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And I also grew up with one of these on the wall of my early childhood home.
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Yes, I’m f’n old.
Darn it... you had to go and trigger those bad memories now didn't you!
Is it copying the iphone or was there another phone out before the iphone that had a notch cut out of the top? Not sure how they are copying Apple, when Apple wasn't the first to do it.
Show me a phone that had a notch like the iphone X other than the Essential phone.
Notch will be dead in 2018. RIP
The original notch Essential phone dropped in price again down to $350.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074BWGRKH
The original notch Essential phone dropped in price again down to $350.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074BWGRKH
And those cords were like 1000 feet long.
I remember my mother walking throughout the living room and hallway while speaking on the kitchen phone.