iPhone: Touch The Wave

[The Dong]

> Um, I work at Vodafone, so I don't actually hate them. :)

Everyone loves their work :)

> Or if you're stuck in a broken down vehicle in the middle of nowhere 
> (like Scotland), and you don't dare go out because you're female and 
> it's dark...

I can feel the fear from here ;)

> The point you're missing is that a mobile phone is essentially a very 
> different thing from a fixed phone.  With a fixed phone, you call a 
> location, like a shop, or the McCleod family home. With a mobile phone, 
> you ring a person.

Ext 253. Accounts, Donna.

> Apart from that, a mobile phone can be made a lot less intrusive than a 
> fixed phone. I'm yet to see the first silent-but-vibrating fixed phone, 
> or a fixed phone that you can easily (meaning, not having to disconnect 
> a wire) switch off, or one that you can send an off-line message with.

If someone leaves their 'silent' mobile phone on a surface, it is no 
longer silent. It's invariably louder and more annoying.

> It just so happens that quite a few people are incapable of using a 
> mobile phone unobtrusively, but that's not the fault of the phone. If 
> you have this sodding frog at volume level 11 as your ring tone, or you 
> speak so loudly that the other party could conceivably hear you even 
> without the phone, that's more a matter of bad manners than anything else.

But those people do that on purpose.
And guess what? Most people love to annoy others or have that "oh, look 
at me. I'm Gods gift" attitude.

> But the essence is that, if I call Gert's number, I'll get Gert, and not 
> his wife, or someone who's visiting, or the accidental burglar. And if 
> Gert can't be arsed to speak to me, he can just press the disconnect button.

You make it sound like Gert has done this before ;)

I know it seems great to be able to phone an exact person, but the 
reciprocal of this is that you lose many excuses for not answering.

> They're never for free. They may not charge you for the phone directly, 
> but this is covered in the subscription.


..which is still cheaper than the iPhone ones..
<Peter throws phone at face, I would duck, but my face is harder>

;)