Disclaimer: I'm a Luddite.
Therefore, I don't understand what a phone could possibly have in it that would prompt anyone to pay nearly a grand for one, but folks do it every day, much to my confusion. I wouldn't pay that much for an actual computer, and they have screens that are almost big enough for me to see, and programs I can actually use to do stuff!
I nearly had a heart attack paying a measly 125 bucks for the phone we have, but then the only real use I have for a phone is talking on it, which I hardly ever do. It's nice that it'll take pictures in case I ever run into bigfoot in the wild again, but I rarely ever make use of that function, either - I have cameras for that sort of thing.
I've loaded this one down with programs that do crazy stuff like... find satellites (as if I ever need to any more), and it has sensors in it to detect it's location and orientation, so I've installed a program that will show me the names of what stars I'm looking at in the sky just by aiming the phone at them... and a bunch of mapping software that takes advantage of the GPS and compass functions, but haven't yet found any good uses for them.
In the end, it's just a phone I can drop into my pocket, and I don't even do that unless I'm going to Walmart and have to pick up an order, so the Powers That Be who are in charge of monitoring my movements are now convinced that I only leave the house to go to Walmart, and so they seem to be satisfied that I'm behaving myself.
So 125 bucks seems a pretty steep tariff for a mere phone and government tracking device. I can't even begin to imagine paying upwards of a grand for one...
... because I'm a Luddite.
.
Therefore, I don't understand what a phone could possibly have in it that would prompt anyone to pay nearly a grand for one, but folks do it every day, much to my confusion. I wouldn't pay that much for an actual computer, and they have screens that are almost big enough for me to see, and programs I can actually use to do stuff!
I nearly had a heart attack paying a measly 125 bucks for the phone we have, but then the only real use I have for a phone is talking on it, which I hardly ever do. It's nice that it'll take pictures in case I ever run into bigfoot in the wild again, but I rarely ever make use of that function, either - I have cameras for that sort of thing.
I've loaded this one down with programs that do crazy stuff like... find satellites (as if I ever need to any more), and it has sensors in it to detect it's location and orientation, so I've installed a program that will show me the names of what stars I'm looking at in the sky just by aiming the phone at them... and a bunch of mapping software that takes advantage of the GPS and compass functions, but haven't yet found any good uses for them.
In the end, it's just a phone I can drop into my pocket, and I don't even do that unless I'm going to Walmart and have to pick up an order, so the Powers That Be who are in charge of monitoring my movements are now convinced that I only leave the house to go to Walmart, and so they seem to be satisfied that I'm behaving myself.
So 125 bucks seems a pretty steep tariff for a mere phone and government tracking device. I can't even begin to imagine paying upwards of a grand for one...
... because I'm a Luddite.
.