What Cell Phone Do You Carry?

R2D2 Droid 2, no case no screen protector. Replaced one battery in the year I've had it, perfect screen, tiny crack on the shell and some dings on the edges from drops.


Good phone! The extra bulk from the keyboard gives it a little more meat, too. Holdable.

Currently doing duty as my in-helmet GPS navigation device around the city, just pop in earbuds and go.


This one breaks, I may have to hit eBay and get another one.

so you just have ear buds in as you ride? Eff that. Can't you get the blue tooth to work? Also how do you punch in directions?

The force.

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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon

so you just have ear buds in as you ride? Eff that. Can't you get the blue tooth to work? Also how do you punch in directions?

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I like the ear buds because I can just yank 'em out or snap the cord if I need to in a hurry. Blue Tooth is stuck in there, and if I need it outrightnow it's not as easy to do. It's threaded under my jacket, so they're just going to hang at my collar if I pull 'em out (and I do).

Does that make sense? If shit fails on me or there's some kind of audio glitch or something, I want the distraction out of my ears immediately.

I punch in the directions while I'm putting my gear on and the bike's warming up. If I had a Siri phone I figure I'd just talk to it through the inline mic, but I don't, so I don't. I usually have an idea of where I'm trying to get to before I get on the bike. If the GPS decides to malfunction (and it does), I pull over and fix that shit.

I've already gone through one pair of Jameson whiskey swag headphones I was given at some bar, delightfully disposable. Just shitty enough for my purposes! Not loud enough to be a problem, totally breakable if they need to be broken.

I have no space in my helmet to pull any earbuds out. They're stuck there.

Then pull the headphones out of the jack...

Also, does everyone on TNL ride a motorcyle now? Is there going to be some kind of TNL bike rally at some point?

Road Rash-style cross country rally, IMO. Dibs on crowbar.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Ad-driven software does tend to make developers more money on Android, and of course Google gets their cut for brokering that.

Android is a good platform for the sort of apps that are relatively cheap to develop and sell for a buck or two (or free). But for high-cost development like HD games, where they need to sell them for $5 or $10 a pop, the Android audience has historically been less receptive. Which is why a lot of the better games stay on iOS. Android owners just don't want to spend $10 for a game, but iOS owners will.

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Researching games for my new iPhone and came across this:
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/be...-games-of-2011

A whopping four out of 25 games here are $4.99 or over. The same number are free.

I realize you have to defend your choice of product with the fury of a thousand suns but really, your arguments are a few years old.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I realize you have to defend your choice of product with the fury of a thousand suns but really, your arguments are a few years old.

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I don't think you're following my point at all. I'm not defending Android in this case, I'm acknowledging that the size of the Android market is a poor reflection of it's profitability (and therefore attractiveness) to developers. I'm explaining why iPhone gets more/better games. They make way more money on iPhone than they do on Android, because Apple owners buy more paid apps.

A lot of those prices in that article are wrong, by the way. Doesn't really matter to my point, but yeah.