| | The new cell phone.....
It's a Samsung Highnote, full of features that have my head twisted. Music player, GPS navigation, 1 gb memory upgradeable to 16gb on a MicroSD card, 2mp camera with camcorder, Bluetooth, and all sorts of other crap I have to digest.
I got it tonight after work, and activated it, and goodbye to the over 3 year old flip phone fritzing out with no features. It's in my sleeping pants pocket right now, as I'm getting ready for bed, but it's playing a shuffle of 6 songs (mp3) I transferred from my Linux laptop via USB without a hitch, no software cd required. It'll be a good way to mess with the people at work, setting it to music mode and starting a song in my left front jeans pocket and have it playing when I go into the break room, as they'll wonder around where the music is coming from. Short lived trick, but good for the moment. I think I'll go to review sites and plug the sucker, even though I haven't even figured out all the features yet.
So far, I am impressed with the little guy. It's a slider and has a nice feel to it. Slide it up, and the key pad is exposed, nice keys, good tactile feel and response. Slide it down, and it has speakers built into the top, with settings in a menu to adjust sound qualities, and in my opinion, a solid stand alone mp3 player. That's as far as I got tonight reading through the manual and tinkering with settings, yet I know it has a many features that are changeable to the user's preferences. I also know there is a program for Linux that's called Bitpim that can hack menus and what not. If this phone is compatible or not remains to be seen, and I'm not downloading it until I feel comfy with all the phones settings. Only an idiot would hack a new cell phone without doing his research first. I read in the manual tonight about Samsung and locked phones, and have already seen on Ebay UNLOCKED phones for sale, and I know what that means. Jesus, I have already UNLOCKED Xboxes and LOCKED them many times over, it's just a matter of software and hardware and proprietory code and open source code. An article on the internet revealed that a similar version of my new phone is being released in China but not approved by the FCC yet for US distribution, yet is running a Linux OS and DAMNED if it isn't the SAME EXACT display as my phone, albeit the colors are different.
So should phone owners be able to hack their phones, and be able to hack other friend's phones, or maybe even just show them how to do it, if it means saving them subscription fees to online services they could REALLY get for free?
This phone will do internet surfing for a FEE, a monthly charge. They record KB usage, and bill you for it. If it was hacked to find WIFI and access accordingly, that would violate their terms of service, and they'd terminate your service. WE are stuck in a jam with the way things work, paying out the WAZOO for services that COULD be free. Damn it all. I have a new phone that I have to pay for, and if I want to access the internet on it, it is an extra fee. Shouldn't I be able to link to my home computer somehow that ALREADY has internet access and use that resource (that I ALREADY pay for) without being double billed for internet access?
Cell phones and internet access, hmm. Why pay twice (double) for the same thing?
I'm done for now. Going to bed. At least the sucker plays mp3s for free, that I can transfer from my PC, that I've legally ripped from Cds that I own. Or something like that, cuz I'm confused as you are.
End of Part One.
Peace.
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