I got a Sidekick fairly recently. I normally just keep pushing buttons until it does what I want. I have not, however, figured out how to disconnect from the web when I'm done surfing. I just turn the phone off and then turn it back on. Of course I have not RTFM.
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Daisy Jane - Aug 21, 2005 3:27:33 am PDT #9773 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Theodosia - Aug 21, 2005 3:33:12 am PDT #9774 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There are a number of companies that now put the manuals for cellphones et al on the web as pages or PDFs... it seems useful to try, especially for something like a Sidekick which is fairly popular.
I'm wearing my mini right now! And it's fucking great!
Daisy Jane - Aug 21, 2005 3:41:19 am PDT #9775 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm wearing my mini right now!
The other day we were doing finish work on a house, so a lot of painting and really tedious detailed stuff. I normally have my mini with me, but I never bring it on site because I want to hear when people yell to "Move!" or "Watch out!" or "Headache!" But since this was just painting and stuff, I had it strapped to my arm with the headphone cord coming up through my collar and jammed out while I painted the house, made it go by much faster.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2005 4:31:31 am PDT #9776 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have named the new iPod mini "Bob". Actually, I'm finding the interface on =that= more daunting than the phone, even.
I found my iPod's interface very quickly became very intuitive.
I'm wearing my mini right now!
IIFG?
Volans - Aug 21, 2005 4:32:50 am PDT #9777 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I still want an iPod. But I bought paints instead.
I have named the new iPod mini "Bob".
iBob.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2005 4:37:48 am PDT #9778 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
'iBob. 'ow's it goin'?
eta: Sorry, have not had caffeine yet. Am still fulfilling my cat-petting duties.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2005 6:03:32 am PDT #9779 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I want a cute new phone, but not enough to pay for it. A friend of mine was trying to call me an early-adopter yesterday, but I pointed out that is not true of gadget-y things, because I'm cheap!
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2005 6:40:01 am PDT #9780 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm back from McDonalds. Why does my cat require still more petting?
JZ - Aug 21, 2005 7:23:32 am PDT #9781 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson's phone is indeed terribly, terribly cute. And part of me is imagining how much more unbearably cute it would be if that link she posted were actual size. It'd have to have an attachment like a very slender lacquered chopstick on a sterling silver chain to push the wee little buttons with, but OH SO CUTE.
On a vaguely related topic, and in the spirit of public service and preventing the taller Buffistas from looking faintly ridiculous, I must beg any Buffista over, say, 6'3", to refrain from getting one of those fancy slim slender credit-card-sized I-can't-believe-how-tiny-it-is! cellphones. The other day I saw a big huge Goliath of a man trying to dial a number on just such a cell, all gleaming and high-tech and expensive looking; unfortunately, he was so large and it was so small that he looked less like a man on the phone than a bear trying to shell a walnut. It lacked dignity.
sarameg - Aug 21, 2005 7:37:56 am PDT #9782 of 10002
Perkins, the nephew is a little over 2.5 years old.
My dad kinda looks like that dealing with his cellphone. It is less the size disparity than it is him squinting down at the keypad through his reading glasses, with a frustrated look on his face and one finger poised to poke the hell out of the thing. He's hung up on people accidentally more than once....