![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kinzelOK, good morning, crew. Mr. Phelps, you may leave the room -- your phone is ringing in the hall.
Today's not quite burning question follows somewhere in the verbiage.
We've been considering upgrading our phones -- that is, our cellphones -- and in pursuit of that, since I'm a hands-on kind of guy -- we've been in/at a number of cellphone stores/big-box stores/corner kiosks looking at the suckers. We've played with keyboards, swiped at letters, shrank and de-shrank windows, observed what the sky looked overhead in Bejing (I was ay a Sam's Club in Augusta... the demo phone wanted to show me Bejing, I dunno why, and neither did the salesgirl...), and etc. Decided on an android phone, and decided that if I have a phone I ought to be able to text on it without chording through the letters, and that I really do prefer typing on a keypad, and made lots of decisions with the anticipation that by the New Year I might be finally caught up to 2008, communication wise. But all is not clear, yet.
One question that's come up (asked by the booth inmates) a number of times, often without additional information or clarity, is "where do you carry your phone?"
Now, I've had an emergency/traveling use only phone (trac[hone brand) for years, and in those years Ive carried it on my belt in a leather belt-looped pouch, in my pants pocket, in the cellphone holder on my shoulder bag, in my shirt pocket. Actually I've had three or four tracphones -- and lost one in it's iron-hand belt pouch (which apparently failed).... somewhere. One just died. Anyway, but the questions I have which are not well answered --
1. Are there phones -- let me be clear, I mean smartphones at this point -- that are best carried in certain places? Should *where* I expect to carry a phone affect a buying decision?
2. Do belt-clip pouches ever work? On my way to Raleigh for NASFIC my clip-on phone pouch got caught in the seat belts a couple times ... and I even tried clipping it to my suspenders, which (apparently) never works, or at least looks awkward as hell. I did manage to answer a call that came in with it in the pouch on my suspenders, but it was vewy vewy vewy iffy, and I swore not again, at least not with that kind of a pouch.
3. Where do *you* carry your phone usually, and what has failed for you (and why) in the past?
Thanks.
Today's not quite burning question follows somewhere in the verbiage.
We've been considering upgrading our phones -- that is, our cellphones -- and in pursuit of that, since I'm a hands-on kind of guy -- we've been in/at a number of cellphone stores/big-box stores/corner kiosks looking at the suckers. We've played with keyboards, swiped at letters, shrank and de-shrank windows, observed what the sky looked overhead in Bejing (I was ay a Sam's Club in Augusta... the demo phone wanted to show me Bejing, I dunno why, and neither did the salesgirl...), and etc. Decided on an android phone, and decided that if I have a phone I ought to be able to text on it without chording through the letters, and that I really do prefer typing on a keypad, and made lots of decisions with the anticipation that by the New Year I might be finally caught up to 2008, communication wise. But all is not clear, yet.
One question that's come up (asked by the booth inmates) a number of times, often without additional information or clarity, is "where do you carry your phone?"
Now, I've had an emergency/traveling use only phone (trac[hone brand) for years, and in those years Ive carried it on my belt in a leather belt-looped pouch, in my pants pocket, in the cellphone holder on my shoulder bag, in my shirt pocket. Actually I've had three or four tracphones -- and lost one in it's iron-hand belt pouch (which apparently failed).... somewhere. One just died. Anyway, but the questions I have which are not well answered --
1. Are there phones -- let me be clear, I mean smartphones at this point -- that are best carried in certain places? Should *where* I expect to carry a phone affect a buying decision?
2. Do belt-clip pouches ever work? On my way to Raleigh for NASFIC my clip-on phone pouch got caught in the seat belts a couple times ... and I even tried clipping it to my suspenders, which (apparently) never works, or at least looks awkward as hell. I did manage to answer a call that came in with it in the pouch on my suspenders, but it was vewy vewy vewy iffy, and I swore not again, at least not with that kind of a pouch.
3. Where do *you* carry your phone usually, and what has failed for you (and why) in the past?
Thanks.
no subject
2010-11-22 15:38 (UTC)1)(where designed to carry) donno, other then issues of fragility (see IPhone in your comments) I think just about anywhere you'd be willing to risk mild electro-magnetic radiation exposure shouldn't be a problem.
2)Belt Clip failures - Too many to number, but I'm a big guy and a lot of stress goes on my belt area when I'm not standing ... I've seen skinny folks with holsters that looks like they're as old as I am, so I guess that's a body type issue and not a design one (like fitting into airline seats)
3) I've taken to wearing carpenter pants (jeans) as often as possible, there's a small tool pocket on the right leg that's perfect for my cell phone (Casio G'zOne ruggedized phone, I've put this poor thing through the washer 3 times and it's still 100% functional).
Unasked for advise: if you get a smart phone, decide now if having a replacable battery is an issue for you. Most rechargables start to fade after a year to 18 months and if you have a phone that you can't change the battery on, you're eventually going to get stuck with a phone that spends most of it's time on the charger.
no subject
2010-11-22 15:41 (UTC)(ferragus AKA Tom Powers)