Does it bother anyone else that after 25+ years of cell phone R&D, the average modern cell phone is basically reduced to being a fancy paperweight earlier in the day than the average cellphone of the 80's and 90's?
The stock batteries of my current Motorola Pro, Palm Pre, and I-phone can't make it past noon with my heavy use. I've been able to make 3500-3800mAh, after-market, batteries last until midnight most days, but even the most expensive ones drop off so dramatically in performance (memory) after about a year that even that solution has an expensive downside.
There are a whole bunch of us out here who rely on long-life batteries and don't give a flying rat's about making our phones thinner. In fact, way back when the "brick" portable cellular first evolved into a smaller phone, decisonmakers somewhere, unfortunately, redirected consumer focus with the shiny distraction of phone size rather than quality. I activated one of my 6-year-old treo smartphones the other day. I don't drop calls ANYWHERE, and even use it for texting and internet on flights at 40,000 feet! Try that with a so-called, more "technologically advanced," android, pre, or iphone. How did we consumers let this happen?
If we had all been given a choice at the beginning of cell phone evolution, to retain optimal cellphone performance or to sacrifice some of that quality in order to someday have a phone that fits into that otherwise pointless jeans coin pocket, clearly millions of us would have opted for function over form. As it is, we're relegated to the back of the bus with the other geeks, poindexters, and troublemakers, until the rest of the world wakes up and realizes a portable phone really ought to be, um, completely portable. Not everyone spends their day near electrical outlets and car chargers.
I propose we all get "vocal" about this--start demanding that manufacturers pay more attention to performance than appearance. If enough of us become a pain in the arse to producers, they'll be forced at some point to provide the product performance we NEED.
Won't you join me in this "movement:" Halt Ever More Miniaturization, O R, Halt Da Really Odious, Idiotic, Diminution Syndrome; or HEMMORHDROIDS for short.</EndOfMyRant>
The stock batteries of my current Motorola Pro, Palm Pre, and I-phone can't make it past noon with my heavy use. I've been able to make 3500-3800mAh, after-market, batteries last until midnight most days, but even the most expensive ones drop off so dramatically in performance (memory) after about a year that even that solution has an expensive downside.
There are a whole bunch of us out here who rely on long-life batteries and don't give a flying rat's about making our phones thinner. In fact, way back when the "brick" portable cellular first evolved into a smaller phone, decisonmakers somewhere, unfortunately, redirected consumer focus with the shiny distraction of phone size rather than quality. I activated one of my 6-year-old treo smartphones the other day. I don't drop calls ANYWHERE, and even use it for texting and internet on flights at 40,000 feet! Try that with a so-called, more "technologically advanced," android, pre, or iphone. How did we consumers let this happen?
If we had all been given a choice at the beginning of cell phone evolution, to retain optimal cellphone performance or to sacrifice some of that quality in order to someday have a phone that fits into that otherwise pointless jeans coin pocket, clearly millions of us would have opted for function over form. As it is, we're relegated to the back of the bus with the other geeks, poindexters, and troublemakers, until the rest of the world wakes up and realizes a portable phone really ought to be, um, completely portable. Not everyone spends their day near electrical outlets and car chargers.
I propose we all get "vocal" about this--start demanding that manufacturers pay more attention to performance than appearance. If enough of us become a pain in the arse to producers, they'll be forced at some point to provide the product performance we NEED.
Won't you join me in this "movement:" Halt Ever More Miniaturization, O R, Halt Da Really Odious, Idiotic, Diminution Syndrome; or HEMMORHDROIDS for short.</EndOfMyRant>
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