# Cellphone Industry: I Pit Thee!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-industry-i-pit-thee/388792>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 21, 2007, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-industry-i-pit-thee/388792 "2007-01-21T03:41:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-industry-i-pit-thee/388792/41 "2007-01-23T01:10:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]  
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I’m a Nokia fan, currently using an [N73](http://www.nokia.com/nseries/index.html#product,n73). 3.2 MP camera with a mechanical auto-focus lens and shutter and an excellent flash and macro mode. 40 MB of internal storage and a 1 GB memory card. Stereo speakers, a very good MP3 player. Opera web browser, MS Office-compatible document editors, Adobe Reader, and hundreds of third-party apps easily available. My favorite phone so far, but I’m such a phone dork that I think I already have my next one picked out. Now I just have to wait for it to come out.  
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Shit! I’ve been outdorkulated!

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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphone-industry-i-pit-thee/388792/42 "2007-01-23T01:19:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]  
wondering why some extras on a phone are so damned awful.  
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I mainly object to camera phones, because cameras are very restricted where I work. For people who work in places like that, and who have no desire to take pictures with their phones on their own time, a camera phone is less useful than a phone without a camera.

I don’t understand why people want to have a camera with them everywhere, either. But, then again, I’m the opposite of photogenic, and I hate having my picture taken.

Other than on camera phones, though, I agree with you, though- it being too easy to access features that you get charged for, or having to wade through lots of menus to turn up the volume, is a user-interface issue, not an issue of the number of features the phone has.

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