Just when I thought that cell phones were the most annoying invention of the last 20 years, now comes a new annoyance:
Walkie Talkie Cell Phones
No, it’s not enough to have the ability to simply dial numbers on a pad thusly to be connected to an ever important matter on the other end. Not enough to cleverly program your phone to ring to the tune of “William Tell Overture” or “Fur Elise”. No…now you must…you must, I say!…have at your fingertips the ability to press one and only one button and yell at the top of your lungs, “We’re in parking lot G!!” or “Can you see me waving at you??!! We’re right here!!” or “I’ll be home in 5 minutes” into your state of the art electronic torture mechanism.
Must…control…impulse to grab your WT and sling it into river…!!!
(Not firing on all cylinders today Kitty?)
I used to hate mobile phones until I got one. Then I realized it’s not the phones, it’s the braindead mentalists that mis-use them.
they forget the existence of their surroundings, veer off to the left, use their phones in cars, talk complete arse.
I agree with Lobsang in regards to the fact that too many of the people with the cell phones/walkie-talkies aren’t using them responsibly–because of that, I can understand your rant, HelloKitty. However, in defense of the walkie-talkies–they’re cheaper than using your minutes, and people scream into just about any mobile telecommunications device you give them.
Nextel user checking in. I hate cellphones and the direct connect thingies, but they do come in handy. Hell, I still hate them. Not because of the technology, it’s because like Lobsang mentioned, it’s the stupid idiots who call my ass. But for the most part, it is useful. Especially for street racing! 90% of the time the beeping feature is on vibrate and I’m a silent talker and try to respect those around me and get off the call quickly. So there, can you here me now?
Has anyone seen the commercial for (I think) Verizon’s new walkie-talkie service where the guy is at the playground doing some construction or something and can’t get his boss to answer the walkie-talkie (a shot at Nextel, I assume)?
Everytime I see it I think, “It’s a freaking cell phone…just call him!”
Actually, the walkie talkie feature is an extremely cost effective way of organizing work functions. When a team shows up at a customer site, they need not use local phones or trash their own calling minutes. Instead, someone on the roof can easily ask another colleague on the ground to check a circuit breaker or what have you.
This won’t prevent the usual idiots from hogging bandwidth by playing “hide and seek” with their friends, but such is life. Blaming cell phone makers for this is merely shooting the (text) messanger, as it were.