1. I've got a tiny little straight talk samsung flip here running bluetooth who's battery last 3 days. Nexus is 10 hours at best. And it would only need to be a 5' hotspot, 10mw at most...
2. Stop talking out of your a$$. There is no one who doesn't KNOW that a flip is more durable than any bar phone. I ran over my old I580 with a truck... 2 different times. Have dropped this cheap samsung 40 feet, with it open even...
3. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I couldn't even finish the paragraph....
I didn't want to answer because your points are so far from reality that it's a waste of time...
This is friendly, I have a high tolerance for a lot of things. But BS isn't one of them, especially while trying to debunk one of my ideas...
Save yourself, delete your post....
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It's difficult to debate with someone when their stance is evidently based on desire rather than facts. I'm hoping further responses on your part will consider providing some foundation on which you are building your argument.
1. You don't support your argument by using a non sequitur. Your 'tiny little straight talk samsung flip' with a battery lasting 3 days isn't continually and actively running WiFi - power requirements for bluetooth are relatively trivial. And that's not 3 days of running data. Also, it is unlikely that a manufacturer would want to offer a hotspot that didn't provide what they deemed sufficient range for the bulk of the clients they expect would want it. That you would be fine with a 5' range does not make it the norm - I, for example, appreciate the fact that I can have my phone at my desk and take my tablet into the next room with no issue.
2. Show me evidence beyond your own assertion that flip phones are inherently more durable. I've owned several flip and slide style phones over the past 20 years, and in my experience have found that the hinge mechanism wears over time as the material is fatigued, making it prone to loosening or breaking. I'm not saying they're not durable, but you don't have that type of built-in predisposition towards damage (not to mention that of dropping it open, where the hinge isn't designed to take a high level of shock in that position, sitting on it, etc). If you are prone to running over your phones with trucks and drop-testing from 40', though, you should probably consider some sort of heavy duty 3rd party protection for any electronics you may have. The single most durable phone I've ever owned was a Nokia 5160, closely matched by a BlackBerry 7290. Far, far more durable than any flip I've owned (including the StarTac, Phone of the Broken Antenna).
3. I'm no expert on phones, though 10 years working with their manufacturers and vendors leaves me far from being brandable as a novice. You have not given an actual fact or piece of evidence or even argument to counter a single item I have raised. With two posts to this effect, I'm inclined to take your emotional rather than rational response to indicate that you do not have any thing with which to begin to refute those points factually, beyond your own opinion, and prefer to call "BS" on anything counter to it.
So I encourage you to either back up your argument with a fact, rather than an emotion based on what you would like to be a fact, or let it go. My responses weren't meant as an attack or to aggressively debunk the idea you suggested, but rather only to point out some of the technological and fiscal limitations that make it difficult and unlikely to come to market in the near future in the form you expressed.
If you don't like that, I'm sorry, but facts are facts. If you feel you do have some you want to bring to the table, I'd enjoy the opportunity to review them - perhaps you can enlighten me to things I've overlooked (that is, for what it's worth, one of the great things that forums can offer).
I did enjoy the cartoon, by the way. It's quite representative - someone proposing a product they might like that in essence isn't technologically feasible and wouldn't drive high enough demand for sales, and someone else indicating the issues (though I'll argue that I expounded on why rather than what the outcome would be).