OT: LG-VX6100 Cellular Phone

Problem solved ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I have yet to see a cell phone camera that's worth getting the photos off of.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Hello Jim,

Agree. My cheap Costco 2.1MPixel camera makes better picture than I have ever seen off a cell phone.

Not quite. Now you have to relay Spehro's statement to someone who may think she had just received the greatest gizmo since sliced bread.

Regards, Joerg

No problem, my wife is not particularly impressed. She already has a nice Sony camera, but she always forgets to take it with her.

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Frankly, anybody who's that wedded to the telephone really needs to get a life beyond talking to other people who have nothing better to do than talk on the phone 24/7.

But, Thompson is as Thompson does.

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Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

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We have two cell sites, one for NExtel and one for Stinkular, on top of our bldg on campus. During the 10 min break between campus, those poor cell sites must be overloaded, because as I walk down the mall, I'd estimate more than half the students are blabbing on their cellphone. I use mine when I need to, but these people are getting a "tennis elbow" from holding the phone up to their ear. One young lady asked me if I knew of a cell phone plan that would give her more than a thousand free minutes a month, because she kept going over the max, and it was costing her a lot of money. Geez, talk about a motormouth! I'm lucky if I go over a hundred minutes a month. These kids are blabbing on there 24/7!

They had a piece on the local news this week about how to save money on your cell phone. One lady was texting so much it was costing her a lot, so they showed her how to call her service provider and change her plan to give her more free text messages. It saved her a _lot_ of money. These cell phone companies have a license to steal when people get sucked into using the text messages. At a nickel or so each, sometimes it's over a hundred a month!

I've got 200 minutes/month and find that quite satisfactory. Just about every high school student has one, (and quite a few younger ones as well), and they are constantly yakking as they walk, stand around, wait for the bus, have a smoke, etc.

On a cost per byte basis, that's a very impressive business case. Unless they can prove price-fixing or something, it's to be considered legitimate, too.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Pig Bladder IS, uh, well, what can you say, ignorant is the only word that comes to mind.

I have an ancient 75 minute plan with no roaming or LD charges that I refuse to let them "upgrade" me from.

I never go over 75 minutes, my wife very rarely does.

Considering that I live in a desert I consider a cell phone a safety item, just like a tire jack.

I've even taken to NOT forwarding my land line when I go to lunch... east coast clients seem totally incapable of telling time ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I was told that the SMS facility was an afterthought in the standard, but incredibly profitable. A few years ago, a Nokia engineer told me about the craze in Finland for SMS "chain letters". The latest one at the time was "If you don't text this to 5 more people within the next hour, your mobile will change from a Nokia to an Ericsson". He wondered if their marketing people had originated it.... ;-)

Regards Ian

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson wrote (in ) about 'OT: LG-VX6100 Cellular Phone', on Sun, 13 Feb 2005:

Or do they just forget that your lunch hour is from 1130 to 1530? (;-)

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1130 to 1330, I have to be back to meet the school bus for the handicapped grandson.

But, on Saturdays, I have been known to take all afternoon ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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And what P's me O is they keep on sending me tempting 'free' text msgs to enter a contest for some free drawing, and I keep sending back NO. I already had a 'wrong number' text msg come on my phone, and I checked the callerID and called the number back. I got a VM and left a msg to _never_ text me again! I'm going to have to do as the news piece said and call them up, and ask that a text msg block be put on my number.

Then I forgot the PW (hey I've changed cell providers so many times lately it's hard to remember), and I called the number to get it sent back to me. So I saw on my next bill that they charged me a dime to send the PW text. >:-(

Jim Thompson wrote: (snip)

Good idea, that, Jim. I don't have, nor do I want, a "cell", and I

*never* answer my landline phone (ringer is OFF; volume on answer machine ON) unless caller says something like hey Michael, it's me ... pick up. This has shown - because very few messages get left - that 99+% of incoming calls are from people I don't know (and probably don't want to know).

As for us east coast-ers seemingly being unable to tell time, that's a myth. We can tell time; we just expect everyone else to be on eastern time too. ;-) (Not unlike the typical American expectation that

*everyone* on this planet speak American english)

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I figure anyone I care about knows my cell number, like wife, kids, grandkids, father. Anyone else calling the main number will go to voice mail.

I've used my cell phone on numerous emergency situations, like an accident happening in front of me, or calling DPS to report a drunk driver.

I was one of the first on the Do Not Call list. And I chew out the types who ignore the list so bad they NEVER call again ;-)

I tend to ignore NY and MA as non-existent ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Humans are nuts, alltogether: All germans are either Nazi's ( even 60 years ago not really correct ) or wear leatherpants ( incorrect everywhere outside some touristinc centres in the utost south of germany ), all muslim woman go with a piece of cloth ( lacking the word for it in english ) around their head ( valid only in those islamic countries where centuries ago slaves had to have their heads uncovered to be more easily distinguishable from the free people, so where wearing something on the head is a social MUST to show one is a free and open minded person ), Christs eating only pig-flesh ( Hey, we got vegetarians nowaday ;) ), non-monoteistic religions being non-believers ( Well, they believe just in something different ) , politicans being untrustworthy ( many are ) or are always 100% right ( none is ), weapons are good / bad ( hey, when you use a rifle to shoot an animal that attacks you its ok.. but when you were so stupid to go where you could expect a dangerous animal, it was stupid ), furcoats are being nice ( Well.. imagine yourself getting skinned alive ) or furcoats being absolutely damnable ( Well, when you ever been to the northpole you will soon find out that most high-tech-fabrics are plain lousy compared to a single good dress made of thick fur.. But tell: Do You live at the northpole? )....

Humans are that way.

So, don't try to change the world, see, it will not care about you. But when you care for your own small world, it might inspire others, and then you might succeed.

This my dad always told me.

Michael wrote:

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Hi Jim, I guess I am even more of a primitive...

My wife and I each have 20 minute (yes, that is twenty minutes per MONTH) plans, and we don't intend to change. We don't use them that much, and we only go over about twice a year. Since these are such minimal plans, if we were to ever go to another provider, it would cost us twice as much (we presently only pay $32 per month) just to keep even.

The only problem is that my cell phone battery is getting bad. It sits in the car all day, and the heat in there cooks them. I could use a new phone, but they want too much for a 'free' phone! I might just have to break down and buy a replacement battery or something... 8-)

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... and rightly so, because my office friend downloads pictures w/no problems using the $10 USB cable he got on ebay.

Any software needed or does it just act like a drive?

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
|  Phoenix, Arizona            Voice:(480)460-2350  |             |
|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
|       http://www.analog-innovations.com           |    1962     |
             
I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Does that mean the "M" in "MIT" stands for Montana?

:-)

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