Voice only mobile phone?

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:30:36 +1000, Terryc


You should be able to get the carrier to disable all the network
features you don't want.  

I had this with "Mobile Internet" on my Tel$tra mobile.  It was very
conveniently located on the keypad so that a sinmgle keypress brought
it up!  Needless to say it kept logging on accidently and I had to
insist that Tel$tra disable the facility.

All I want to do is talk on my phone - no e-mails, sms, internet
nothing!

It will be interesting when we get forced to give up our CDMA phones
and migrate to Nex G - what the hell do I need a camera in a phone
for?

Yeah, it gives me the craps with all these new "features" that all
phones have - I just want to be able to make phone calls and the odd
text message, and from my time selling the things, that's all that most
people over 25 want. The 15-25 yo's are pretty much the only ones
driving the market with all the whizzbangery. In 2-1/2 years of owning a
camera phone, i've only found it useful once. She Who Must Be Obeyed was
crook and sent me out to buy a bookcase. I was able to take pictures of
potential candidates and MMS them to her for her verdict. Certainly a
feature I could live without. I used it for novelty use in the first few
months of ownership - I think I've gone 12 months now without using the
camera once.

What I hate about the modern phones are the colour screens. You can't
see the damn things when the backlight is off, so it's next to
impossible to just glance at the display to see if you had a call or
sms etc.

Dave :)

Bring back rotary-dial I say! :)

What a decadic lifestyle that would promote!

I wouldn't mind at all , spent many happy hours looking for faults

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:59:37 GMT, swanny



http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/11/4958
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id28%7

And I heard that they are selling quite a few of them in yanksville too.

Don...

put finger to keyboard and composed:



I'm waiting for someone to design a PC keyboard using only a mobile
phone keypad. It would be just the thing for those pretentious,
one-handed SMS typists who reckon it's unkewl to reach for the Shift
key.

- Franc Zabkar