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Re: John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone

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3g modems are quite cheap and can send sms.

most of them? what software do you recommend?

All of them AFAIK. Huawei is one of the most popular ones: http://www.3gmodem.com.hk/Huawei.html Just double check on the forums that your linux knows how to talk to them. Some models have integrated storage which includes windows drivers and need a special application to send them "start acting normally, I don't need that crap" message.

Re: John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone

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More expensive than a phone that can do more? Laughable pretentious rubbish.

Simplicity is a feature. "Can do more" sometimes means "can't do anything because it's too complicated".

I remember getting a £30 ZTE phone on 3 that did texts, calls, and had a fairly rubbish but workable browser. It wasn't complicated, it was small, light, and the battery lasted forever. It was a bit slow but for £30 it's a far better bargain than this John's Phone.

I even made a handy contacts parser for it: https://github.com/radiosilence/ZTEcontactsparse

Re: John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone

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SMS-lifestyle or not, I'd take the Nokia (at 2/3 the price or less) for the 10+ years of industrial design that went into it. To be honest, this doesn't seem to be a phone for children or the elderly (neither of which have some sort of cognitive short circuit that keeps them from grasping a simple Nokia while allowing them to embrace the idioms of this particular phone) -- but rather a phone for hipsters who need to…

What I found strange though is to see that it's from an Amsterdam-based company. Maybe it's different Out There In The West but in most of the Netherlands, iPhones aren't a big deal, and we don't have US-style hipsters at all.

You guys wear straight-leg pants, listen to obscure European bands, ride utilitarian bicycles and drive small cars. You're all US-style hipsters.

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What I found strange though is to see that it's from an Amsterdam-based company. Maybe it's different Out There In The West but in most of the Netherlands, iPhones aren't a big deal, and we don't have US-style hipsters at all.

You guys wear straight-leg pants, listen to obscure European bands, ride utilitarian bicycles and drive small cars. You're all US-style hipsters.

Haha yeah I guess so, hadn't looked at it that way :)

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I also would take a Nokia, but they are not water proof!

I've showered at the beach with my nokia in the pocket of my bathing suit. It was fine. My nokia has fallen out of a moving vehicle. I drop it several times a day. It's been run over by a bicycle. The thing is a rock.

:-) Then, I'll buy a Nokia to go to the beach.
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