roxbubbagum
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So I'm on the city bus today, and some nerdy kid sitting across the aisle from me keeps staring me down. I try to ignore this guy, but then he tries to tap me with his foot to get my attention! And I think "(Jeeze, that was kinda gay.....I hope he's not trying to flirt with me!)" 
Then he asks me if my Motorola HT820 Bluetooth heaRABet is one of those FM radio "thingies". I say, "No, it allows me to wirelessly transmit stereo music". Then he looks at my HTC Touch pointing and asks, "What's that? Is that an MP3 player?" I press my lips together hoping to imitate a smile, trying to cover my annoyance, and reply dryly, "No. It's a phone," turning the screen toward him. Then he's like, "cool!"
So I go into my spiel about how I can use my phone as a music player, sync it with television shows I recorded on my home computer, track my satellite position using Google Maps, and, yes, kid--I can even get on the Internet with this thing.
To which he's like, "That's cool. My parents blocked the Internet on my Cingular RAZR", to which I accidently said aloud, "That might be a good thing!"
Meanwhile, other people sit there gawking as I explain all the features of my phone. Sometimes, skank_boy and I sit and talk shop on our morning commute, but I can tell others around us are baffled by what we are rattling on about. I mean, really, who talks about EVDO PRL's and Dual NAM's conversationally and publicly in the wee hours of the morning? :silly:
Anyway, the kid says he had his phone for over a year and still doesn't know how to work it properly (although he claims to be this wily computer-skilled genius). It kills me how people take their phones for granted, never knowing the full potentials of the device--much less the crippling limitations the manufactures and service providers might engineer into them.
And then I think about my frienRAB and associates here on HoFo and other similar message boarRAB who refuse to be told what they can and can't do with their cell phones and PDA's. It's almost strange how alien it feels sometimes listening to other people's problems with their carriers and mobile devices, knowing that I hacked a PDA offered by Sprint on Cricket's unlimited voice and data services, yet a simple registry edit allows me to switch to a Verizon PRL and go roaming anywhere I want to with a $30 pre-pay card. :2thurabs:
But not so easy is knowing things like where to find the tools and the means to make a Sprint phone talk on the Verizon network. And that's what separates the few from the many.......
Anyway, I will continue on my daily commute with curious onlookers wondering if I can get their Sidekick to work on Cricket for them, and whether or not the can download Bluetooth their phone. Yes, it gets that bad, folks. And while many of you might understand these little esoteric colloquialisms, a great deal of consumers out there live their day to day without a single clue in the world.
I can't imagine.
Then he asks me if my Motorola HT820 Bluetooth heaRABet is one of those FM radio "thingies". I say, "No, it allows me to wirelessly transmit stereo music". Then he looks at my HTC Touch pointing and asks, "What's that? Is that an MP3 player?" I press my lips together hoping to imitate a smile, trying to cover my annoyance, and reply dryly, "No. It's a phone," turning the screen toward him. Then he's like, "cool!"
So I go into my spiel about how I can use my phone as a music player, sync it with television shows I recorded on my home computer, track my satellite position using Google Maps, and, yes, kid--I can even get on the Internet with this thing.
To which he's like, "That's cool. My parents blocked the Internet on my Cingular RAZR", to which I accidently said aloud, "That might be a good thing!"Meanwhile, other people sit there gawking as I explain all the features of my phone. Sometimes, skank_boy and I sit and talk shop on our morning commute, but I can tell others around us are baffled by what we are rattling on about. I mean, really, who talks about EVDO PRL's and Dual NAM's conversationally and publicly in the wee hours of the morning? :silly:
Anyway, the kid says he had his phone for over a year and still doesn't know how to work it properly (although he claims to be this wily computer-skilled genius). It kills me how people take their phones for granted, never knowing the full potentials of the device--much less the crippling limitations the manufactures and service providers might engineer into them.
And then I think about my frienRAB and associates here on HoFo and other similar message boarRAB who refuse to be told what they can and can't do with their cell phones and PDA's. It's almost strange how alien it feels sometimes listening to other people's problems with their carriers and mobile devices, knowing that I hacked a PDA offered by Sprint on Cricket's unlimited voice and data services, yet a simple registry edit allows me to switch to a Verizon PRL and go roaming anywhere I want to with a $30 pre-pay card. :2thurabs:
But not so easy is knowing things like where to find the tools and the means to make a Sprint phone talk on the Verizon network. And that's what separates the few from the many.......
Anyway, I will continue on my daily commute with curious onlookers wondering if I can get their Sidekick to work on Cricket for them, and whether or not the can download Bluetooth their phone. Yes, it gets that bad, folks. And while many of you might understand these little esoteric colloquialisms, a great deal of consumers out there live their day to day without a single clue in the world.
I can't imagine.