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Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:29 pm
by steve-e
Your mobile - is it a smartphone?
More to the point, does it allow you to check emails and browse the web?

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:37 pm
by Richard Rollings
And vote

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:42 pm
by steve-e
oh yes, and vote :lol: As I posted somewhere else a bit earlier, 29% of 18-44 year olds now have smartphones.
I'm working on installing a mobile version of the front of the site, joomla have templates and I'm going to have a play around with it see if I can get something useable working. I really like touchbb app for the iPhone but I'm not sure if other smartphones may have something similar in the future with the OS's on phones starting to come together a bit.
I hear that you can now use a lot of the Nokia 97 apps on the i8910 that I nearly upgraded to so this part of the market should build quite fast now, quicker than when the first mobile smartphones came out. I had a pda about 5 years ago on windows mobiles but what a beast of a thing that was :P

If you are into this sort of stuff, 'avinio' is a good tweeter to follow, always has good links to technology marketing and trends.

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:36 pm
by sidecarf11
I guess thats a no we dont get mobile signal out here so no mobile anymore :?

The funniest thing is that the guy who owns car phone wharehouse owns a lot of the land around the village :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:40 pm
by steve-e
And we already have our first hippo :lol:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:41 am
by Bob B
Looks like the lone hippo now has a mate - hope they don't start breeding :o

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 1:03 pm
by Lumley32
the problem with phone based web pages is there rubbish if you have a more modern phone, iphone ect, as the mobile websites are often harder to use than the real ones.

or at least thats what i have found

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:13 pm
by steve-e
I have found that with the telegraph's site, they seem to dump a lot of content.

What I really am looking for is stripping back the images that aren't necessary and keeping links to all the articles and directory page etc. I don't want to lose content just fumf.

Try touchbb on your iphone Rich for this place. It works well :D I've already written to the developer as well as posting on his support site, asking that they have a 'view all unread posts' button added to the ones on it so far :P

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:31 pm
by steve-e
So I've got a 16gig phone, have put just over 2,000 songs on there.. and what then? Installed internet radiobox and listen to that non stop instead :lol:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 3:47 pm
by mum e
steve-e wrote:So I've got a 16gig phone, have put just over 2,000 songs on there.. and what then? Installed internet radiobox and listen to that non stop instead :lol:
never satisfied :lol:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:32 pm
by Alan Richardson
Its a lot smarter than me for sure :lol: Nokia N86, is it good or bad?? I dunno!

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:28 pm
by Dan
Can you make phone calls on these smart phone thingys? :??:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:28 pm
by steve-e
Yes you can, and the great bit is I was talking to Bob in nowhere near Bergerac earlier tonight and it was free.
Superb to hear Bob.

It's the way the World is changing Dan and has been for a while, You enjoy your retirement ;)

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:51 pm
by Muck E
i'd just like to have a phone with normal buttons again!!! let alone going on line. :roll:

Re: Do you have a smartphone?

Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:13 am
by Bob B
Great chatting with Steve and Mandy yesterday evening, to use an old phrase 'it was as though they were in the same room' - the quality was that good. I'm deffo a confrimed Skype user, now to chat with various friends and family in UK :D