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<blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6318735" data-attributes="member: 89838">To me, the smartphone is like Clippy: it's so busy being helpful that it gets in the way. (this is exactly what led to the high-impact stress test)Also, with all the do-dads and apps and what-not, the single hardest thing to get the darn thing to do was function like a phone! I just want to call someone! I takes up to 5 buttons to start dialing numbers! And then I have to delete the numbers the phone inserted into my way because it was &quot;hel(l)ping&quot; me.I also prefer buttons to the touch-screen. I'm a tactile kind of guy.Funny how many of the phone numbers started popping back into recognition so quickly.Used to be, you could buy ring-tones, and the service provider has a ton for you to choose from. Now Verizon provides &quot;ring-back&quot; tones so people can listen to the music you choose while waiting for you to pick up, but I cannot find any ringtones. Oh, but you can make your own... but frequently the quality sucks. Not sure what the logic or thinking is there. The phone I had 10 years ago had a great system for ringtones, and it worked. Heck, it even sounded pretty decent. How did that technology get lost?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sabrinathecat, post: 6318735, member: 89838"] To me, the smartphone is like Clippy: it's so busy being helpful that it gets in the way. (this is exactly what led to the high-impact stress test) Also, with all the do-dads and apps and what-not, the single hardest thing to get the darn thing to do was function like a phone! I just want to call someone! I takes up to 5 buttons to start dialing numbers! And then I have to delete the numbers the phone inserted into my way because it was "hel(l)ping" me. I also prefer buttons to the touch-screen. I'm a tactile kind of guy. Funny how many of the phone numbers started popping back into recognition so quickly. Used to be, you could buy ring-tones, and the service provider has a ton for you to choose from. Now Verizon provides "ring-back" tones so people can listen to the music you choose while waiting for you to pick up, but I cannot find any ringtones. Oh, but you can make your own... but frequently the quality sucks. Not sure what the logic or thinking is there. The phone I had 10 years ago had a great system for ringtones, and it worked. Heck, it even sounded pretty decent. How did that technology get lost? [/QUOTE]

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