10-07-2012, 03:04 AM
I read it, thinking it would be a "I want a phone that is a phone" article...which it wasn't. I really don't have much sympathy for a professional writer who doesn't understand brightness controls on a laptop.
I have an employer-provided smartphone, but if I were paying I might select a "dumb" flip phone and a tablet instead. I use about three apps on it, one of which is e-mail. Debate among yourselves whether 24x7 access to work e-mail is a good thing. I do miss the ability to touch-dial (can't do that with a screen-based keypad). I can barely read some of the screen elements of the smartphone while wearing polarized sunglasses. And I'm a big believer in silent phones, and this big huge smartphone has the weakest vibrate motor of any phone or pager I've had in the last 20 years.
I have an employer-provided smartphone, but if I were paying I might select a "dumb" flip phone and a tablet instead. I use about three apps on it, one of which is e-mail. Debate among yourselves whether 24x7 access to work e-mail is a good thing. I do miss the ability to touch-dial (can't do that with a screen-based keypad). I can barely read some of the screen elements of the smartphone while wearing polarized sunglasses. And I'm a big believer in silent phones, and this big huge smartphone has the weakest vibrate motor of any phone or pager I've had in the last 20 years.