1) As hard as this may be to believe, the most important function of a cell phone for me is the ability to make and receive clear phone calls.
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a Cell phone should be just that- a portable phone. Manufacturers should be focussing on stuff related to making phone calls- phone lists and a database like they have now make sense in that context, but being able to take pictures? Access E-mail? And my personal "favourite" "text messages".
Everybody (well, not everybody, but you know what I mean) is all in a fuss "OMG I HAVE TO SEND TEXT MESSAGES!", meanwhile, in 1982, people were sending text messages back and forth to each other through modems and, they didn't make a huge deal out of it. That was billed Per/hour by the phone company, and now you get to pay something like 50 cents per message. So your spending 50 cents to be able to send through text a message that you could just as easily send through a phone call. "but it's not long/important enough for a phone call" they say... well, then is it really worth communicating? Does your friend really need to know that you "lol'd" and is it really worth 50 cents to communicate this information? It certainly doesn't cost the cellphone company anything at all to send text messages, it's like a huge cash cow and people are falling right into it like it's "new".
And then you have "cellphone games" did the pulse dialing phones have built in versions of Pong and tetris? No! and it's not simply because they are "old" and "outdated" it's because they are
phones. I won't argue that it's easier to carry around, say, a cellphone with games and a camera then a cellphone, a camera and a gameboy, but come on, do you really ALWAYS need that stuff anyways? After all, every single "feature" of these mixed up things are pretty substandard. they come with terrible cameras, awful music playback, (for those that double as an "mp3 player"), public domain games that you still have to pay fore, and probably the worst concievable types of keyboards, and yet people are buying them in droves because they are "cool".
That doesn't even touch on the fact that there are 8 year olds running around with cellphones with all these cool features. Why? Do they <REALLY> need a cellphone? people will often counter "well, I want to be able to find them if they get lost!" Well gee, I wonder how we ever survived as a human race before the advent of cellphones! Besides, since when do homing beacons need games and cameras, anyway? It's a huge cop out to say "well, I want to be able to contact them anywhere". First off, you should ALWAYS know where your bloody children are, you shouldn't need to call them. How the *censored* are they going to get "lost" anyway? What are they going to wander into the forbidden forest after dinner? Come on people.
Sorry I guess that was somewhat Off-topic. Anyway that screen would be pretty cool for computer displays, but dreadfully pointless for cellphone screens. I don't know about anybody else but the ability to play "tetris" in 3d isn't really that appealing. It's still tetris, I'd be happy to play it on an Electronika-90.
