DROID Incredible! Cellular Grid

[wildjim]

As I am trying to get off the grid I noticed the Droid Incredible!

Anyone else have a Droid Incredible! cellular telephone?

[The Tourist]

As I am trying to get off the grid...

Don't all modern phones have built in GPS technology?

I ask this question because I have an eight year old phone. I once used the road-service feature for a dead truck battery. The operator tapped a few keys and responded, "I see that you're standing in their parking lot..."

That was correct. Not inside the building, but clearly to them "in the parking lot."

I wonder if that technology works if the phone is "off"? More to the point, if they say it's not, can you believe it? That's the problem with elements of the grid.

[wildjim]

You can turn off the location in the phone settings.

The AnDroid OS is amazing and fast and Open Source! Some the apps are Compass, Level, Metal Detector, Walking - Running - Cycling Monitor that reports to the web Altitude, Speed, Temperature etc. LookOut theft or loss tracking within 10 feet. GPS and 3g WiFi

The Droid Incredible phone uses a 1 ghz processor!

[Noss]

They look cool. I may consider getting one. I would like an Iphone but I don't have AT&T and I'm under a 2 year contract with my current provider.:headbang: But I can get a droid. :rockon:

I did just buy an Ipod touch for the first time. It's an amazing little device.

[wildjim]

It an amazing phone. I have a Blackberry from work and its a joke compared to the Droid.

My daughter has the iphone 3g but I like the open source apps on the Droid and the Droid is faster.

[The Tourist]

I have a contract, as well. Is the Droid available through Sprint?

[wildjim]

I have a contract, as well. Is the Droid available through Sprint?

I believe there is an HTC Android OS phone under Spint and T-Mobile

[The Tourist]

Thank you. Their store is across the street from my health club. I'll stop and look. I need a new phone. I notice that the charge seems to be waning, and I use it primarily for business, and the weather service through a local TV channel.

[The Tourist]

Hey, I had time. I just got back from the Sprint store, hey, a little bike is made for city traffic!

The guy said that they have a phone he described as an "android" phone. Lots of features, he did not like the touch screen keypad. It's 300 bucks, 100 dollar factory rebate and there's a waiting list.

We pulled up Japan Woodworker for grins, and the screen can zoom in on the pictures by manipulating the screen with your fingers.

Even for my job, do you think it's an investment, or would a garden variety Blackberry be a simpler, more practical choice?

(Oh, and will the current price on Droids drop in the next six months?)

[wildjim]

Blackberry blows : (

[The Tourist]

Blackberry blows : (

Hey, this might be a very old pic, but that's still my current phone!

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/ritual.jpg

[LoganSackett]

Don't all modern phones have built in GPS technology?

I ask this question because I have an eight year old phone. I once used the road-service feature for a dead truck battery. The operator tapped a few keys and responded, "I see that you're standing in their parking lot..."

That was correct. Not inside the building, but clearly to them "in the parking lot."

I wonder if that technology works if the phone is "off"? More to the point, if they say it's not, can you believe it? That's the problem with elements of the grid.

My phone (Samsung Alias) has two settings for location. One just says "Location On", which is probably what you experienced. The other says "E911 only" and is only activated when I call 911, so if I pass out while on the phone they can find me. That's the setting that I have it on right now.

[kurodrago]

Nice...................gun:)

[wildjim]

Hey, this might be a very old pic, but that's still my current phone!

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/ritual.jpg

In my opinion that phone sucks on the grand scale of things, the cup is too small to be useful, your printer needs dusting (again)

The 1911 cocked and locked is state of the art forever!

; )

[The Tourist]

In my opinion...the cup is too small to be useful, your printer needs dusting (again)

The 1911 cocked and locked is state of the art forever!

Stop channeling my mother! LOL.

For some reason I have 'selective' OCD. The bottoms of my bikes are cleaner than my T-shirts. I can strip a 1911 in the dark, but I don't know how to work most of the things on my current phone, circa 2002. I can tell you where all of the major highway cracks are on the slab within a fifty mile radius, but I cannot name 2/3s of the actresses on Entertainment Tonight. My jackknives will cut you to the bone, but my shaving razor is as dull as a butterknife--at least I think it is, if I knew where it was.

In short, the pistol is a Tussey Custom, the phone annoys me when it goes off...

Edit: BTW, before we get some geek parsing my words, that Tussey Custom is a '1911 design,' but not rightly a 1911. It is/was my carry piece, the larger frame Colt .380 ACP, also stamped "Government." I now use a CZ 83.

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb231/TheTourist_bucket/DSC00430.jpg

[wildjim]

I am laughing with you not at you, as I understand ; )

Nice pistol!

I like the 45. . .

I have a BlackBerry issued from work : ( Its functional but no comparison to a real data phone like the EVO, Android, or iphone which are amazing devices!

Hence I am thinking of upgrading my personal "chocolate" verizon phone to the Android. I am just too cheap to spring for the data plan which is nearly twice the price ($78 per month) of my current voice plan ($42 per month)

[The Tourist]

I am laughing with you not at you, as I understand

Oh, I wasn't mad. In fact, I thought it was funny. I did say "LOL."

I even wonder if I'm really a "cellular kind of guy." Yikes, many times I have to use my land line to call my cell to see where I left it. If I laid out all of my favorite knives you might comment, "For pete's sake, Chico, the 1970s are over!"

Oy. I drive a bike designed in 1936.

But the reality is that someday soon my cell is going to refuse to take a charge or simply implode. I have my old, old, old cell that still works. I might even have to use that one.