Re: Is a 2 year old phone realistic now?
I... have no idea where your getting this stuff from...
-Touch screens are here to stay.. At Least for a long long time .... Voice control, and or gesture inputs are making way but its still mostly touch and will stay that way for quite a while.
-The un-upgradable body is here to stay as well. Atleast for the majority. Till they make one that is of similar size and construction as current devices its a no go..
-How can you think Android is not gonna last?
-Please inform us of your statistics on failing devices...
- also what do you consider a failing device?
-I think you need a blackberry. Because keyboards and directional buttons are pretty much done for and not coming back..
---- Next time please give some reasoning to your speculations... It really sounds like your just making things up on the spot.
Read my first words : I don't think .... (yes you could joke about that the other way!)
What statistics did I quote?
This is a friendly debate about the future of phones.
I do like more input options, like keyboards. Finger to glass only? Forever?
I personally don't think so. Remember touch typing. People never needed to look at the keys.
Partially sighted people will have to announce to everyone what they are writing using voice to text.
Lose screen control and you can lose everything.
It's just a fad. It's an ergonomic nightmare, but we're stuck with it for a while until the cycle changes. Read through the last few months of Ask a Question. Not everyone wants to use Google+ and save to the cloud. Which is someone else's servers.
I'm not making things up on the spot. I am 55 and have seen different technologies. Phones are not my favourite technology, but we have to embrace them now.
We don't all have to like the way the big oems are stuck with one format. It's all marketing, and it will eventually change.
Having a single input that can and does fail is putting all your eggs in one basket. Nobody conducted years of research and decided these devices were the best solution. They just evolved in one happenstance direction because of digitisers. My previous phones were resistive screen Sony-Ericsson's at 3 inches I think.
Anyway this was only part of my original question.