What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Aston Martin Cygnet and job at the estate agents.

[dollywobbler]

I use a BlackBerry, which I think is a bit like considering an Audi or Lexus, but opting for a Saab instead. Does everything I want from a phone, no fuss but people seem to regard them as a bit odd and not very user friendly. Onto my second after a free upgrade. Last one was a bit crashy, but this one seems great. Even has some touch-tone functionality.

[philibusmo]

I used to have an iPhone. I now have a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone which is better overall, if not in some of the very small details (and the ebay app is fucking shit) but if we use Wobblers analogy I would say it is like considering the Audi (iPhone) the Jaguar, BMW, Mercedes (various Android phones) and the Lexus (Blackberry) and going for a Vauxhall VXR8. Its Yellow, it;s stupidly quick to use and zip between apps on but it is a little crude around the edges.

 

I like it a lot.

[vulgalour]

I like the built in telephone on my camera.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I fancy one of these Nokia lumia phones as so many people have told me theyre shite.

[M'coli]

Recovering extant information from iPhones is the only thing iTunes exists for...

 

Anyway, when it comes to replacing this:

 

a Blackberry is probably going to be the best option.  As far as phones with touchscreens go, if you've had an accident violent enough to shatter the screen, then how are you gonna dial 999/112 with a broken screen?

[Richard]

If I used my phone for making calls I would still be using a Nokia 3410.

[Lord Sterling]

I've got an Samsung S3 or whatever they are calling it today. I spunked a load of money on it and still only ended up paying half as FATHA_Sterling paid the other half. So dar I've managed to crack the screen in the corner and I still can't use my English sim card in it as the chip is too big and swapping the number onto a new card has so far been an arse ache. I've given up now and am basically saving it for when I return to live in Brussels.

 

I must admit, the S3 is a smart little phone, easy to use apps and so far common sense usage. I'm kind of glad I'm not using it here.

[dollywobbler]

If I used my phone for making calls I would still be using a Nokia 3410.

 

My wife is currently using my old Nokia 3410 after her modern phone threw a wobbly. She also uses a seven-year old Toshiba laptop running Windows XP. She is fully signed up to Technoshite. (mind you, she also hacked her Nook e-reader so it can do emails and web surfing!)

[Pillock]

 

I must admit, the S3 is a smart little phone, easy to use apps and so far common sense usage. I'm kind of glad I'm not using it here.

The S3 is a bag of wank. Designed-in faults to do with programmable memory dying after 6 months leading to warranty repairs taking three weeks. Horrible 1990s Samsung apps replacing the nice Google ones. Plastic case that cracks.

 

Phones4U kindly paid off £390 worth of my contract, 13 months worth, just so I could replace it with a nice phone. And dropped my tariff.

[vulgalour]

 Nook e-reader 

 

Nook e-reader

Nooke reader

Nookie Reader

Porn.

[Hendry]

When it comes to phones I don't think anything will top phones like the Sony Ericsson K750/K800.

 

With phones now its a bit like how cars got in the mid 90s, they got well equipped, technologically advanced, well engineered and built and reliable but without all the added on shite and stuff to go wrong, those phones were like a 1997 5 series BMW, (fuck knows what E that was, what happened to mk1, mk2 etc)

 

Now I've got a Blackberry Bold 9790, its a good phone for the simple fact it's not an iPhone, expensive though - £330. Could've bought a motor for that. Only apple thing I like is the iPod.

 

Can only see them getting worse, its like my boss says - Steve Jobs has fucked it for them by dying - that's what happens when the only expert is no longer around.

[dollywobbler]

 

The above deserves a wider audience. It's brilliant! See Dedra thread for more details. You didn't think a thread about a Dedra was worth looking at did you? Wrong!

[retrogeezer]

I was using my K800 up to a year ago but 3 wouldn't give me any internet access at a decent price and I got a great deal on an HTC One S with unlimited internet.

 

The thing is great, hardly used as a phone but a fantastic mini computer in your pocket.

[vulgalour]

There are two main reasons Apple does so well:

1) A fool and their money are easily parted.

2) Surprisingly effective lifestyle marketing.

[Jim Bergerac]

The leased BMW/Audi diesel of the phone world.

[Lord Sterling]

When it comes to phones I don't think anything will top phones like the Sony Ericsson K750/K800.

This, much like Pillocks statement, is simply an opinion, not fact. I've never got on with the Sony-Ericsson phones, always opting for either Nokia or Samsung, ive always been happy with thier products and will stick by them. I absolutely adore my S3 even though I can't (and won't) use it here in England but I feel its a bit fragile, so I'm currently using a Nokia E71 which does what I want it to (most of the time) it makes calls, takes pics/vids and has a clock on it, that's all I want, anything else (that actually works, unlike its SatNav) is a bonus.

 

I've been trying buy an S2 off a mate who offered it to me sometime back now, but until I can crack the 1k saving bar in my bank, I won't be doing any big spending.

[Lord Sterling]

Hey! That would be great. Let me know and I can deliver the cash in exchange for it. Cheers!

[vulgalour]

This remains one of my favourite mobile phones of ever.  I had both the pull-out aerial and fixed aerial types.

 

It was replaced by a Motorola clamshell with similar functionality which was actually the perfect mobile phone for me.  I can't find a picture of the exact model, but it was superb and I wish my crazy ex hadn't smashed it to pieces because I'd likely still have said phone rather than this HTC Desire thingy I've got now with the horrible touch screen I hate.

 

I have never bought a mobile phone, or paid for a contract, and I'm still using the same PAYG sim card I had in the old Motorola from at least a decade ago.  I don't like change.

[Ghosty]

After several Androids that were all crap, and knackering a BlackBerry, from a year of hard use, I bought a Sony Ericsson K810i off eBay for £10.

I've always liked that series of phones (first phone I had was a K510i), and the K810i was the last of the good ones before OMG IPHONE and so on. Extremely frugal internet (sub-100mb/month), Faceache app, excellent camera, and really, really well built. 

This, but not Swedish and with an Orange logo on it.

[autofive]

i cant believe that autoshite has turned into phoneshite over the last few days

 

 

whats next?

 

a massive discussion on the relative merits of different kettles?

 

bring back gails tits, all is forgiven

[Lord Sterling]

She doesn't live in Brum no more, but she goes back a fair bit.

Cool, no worries, just drop me a line next time she's down here.

[Cavcraft]

I do still have (and use) this too. It's years old, has been dropped, lied on and knocked about numerous times and it has a BFO series of cracks on the screen, but it just won't die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to get a new screen for it and get my neighbour to fit it. It's a bloody brilliant phone.

[skattrd]

Whilst doing a bit of research on diesel conversions for mk2 Scirocco's I have discovered that the 1.6TD lump from a mk1/2 Goof should drop straight in to the Scirocco and work with minimal fettling. There is currently a Golf GTD on the blue forum. if I wasn't losing my job this week I'd be planning the conversion now.... I may be planning the conversion anyway and thinking of selling the HPE or plastic Renno.

[vulgalour]

IT LIVES!

 

Full update later.  I'm a very happy bunny.

[dollywobbler]

 

What a load of crap! Parked up at our local as we stopped there in the 2CV. It conked out and had to be parked using the starter motor. Then the elderly couple struggled to get out of it because it no longer has doors. Not often I find a car that I really despise, but today I did! Still wouldn't mind a standard Rialto though...

 

EDIT - also, my little sister has her first car. Couldn't find a suitable Fiesta, so she bought a Corsa instead.

 

Hope it's ok. Quite jolly little cars I think. I drove a diesel one back to back with its successor and much preferred it!

[Cavcraft]

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[RedSparrow]

Ha! That Reliant is amazing. I would love to have seen his wife's face when she saw he'd lopped the roof off.

[Pillock]

This, much like Pillocks statement, is simply an opinion, not fact.

 

You're right. 

But it's the correct opinion

 

 

skattrd, the GTD responds well to a bit of brute-force tuning, and the Scirocco isn't a heavy car.

That would be an interesting marriage of parts! 

[skattrd]

Pillock: I've been reading up on  GTD tuning, wind the fuel pump up then apparently they can safely handle 1.5bar. An intercooler and uprated rad in front are advisable.

Iirc the Scirocco is around 920kg and with the above mods should see about 120bhp.

 

I really shouldn't consider such things when I've all ready got too many cars as I'd be looking to do this to another 'rocco. I want to keep my Scala with a 1.9 TSR as it is.