🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Not really,
Are you destroying my joke with reality?
It will FAIL since my joke is build like a TANK!
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Real picture (boring)
Back when phones were just phones… :rosetintedspecs:For the record, I much prefer the modern smartphone
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For the record, I much prefer the modern smartphone
You know my beef with modern smartphones?
NO BUTTONS.
Come on! I gave up on having full QWERTY available, but can I at least have the basic stuff as something physical I can mash on when I want to get it to do stuff? Screen fondling just doesn't do it for me.
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Aren't those just the IR tappy thing?
I'm not counting power / volume, of course, since they mostly still are hardware buttons. I do reserve my right to complain about them if / when they become thought-controlled or something.
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Down the side from top to bottom, it's volume rocker, power, and camera shutter. But yeah, the three face 'buttons' are part of the touch panel, rather than physical buttons.
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Tulsa police say a woman found a man covered in blood, stumbling around the parking lot of the Evergreen Apartments around 1 a.m.
When police arrived at the apartment complex, they learned that the roommates had been drinking and arguing over their mobile phones.To be fair, there's not much else to do in Oklahoma.
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"Fun" fact: I've never owned a Nokia phone.
For no good reason. It simply never happened.
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To be fair, there's not much else to do in Oklahoma.
Could always sing a few racist songs. Anyways, they obviously had access to beer. What more could you need?
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This was just me leaking memes from one forum to another again. We GM/Duramax owners like to make fun of Dodge/Cummins owners because a metric doucheload of ancient Cummins are driven by high school or college-age kids. They almost always think black smoke means more power, a $50 "chip" will add 600 horsepower, and they ALWAYS have the tow mirrors extended or flipped out even when they aren't towing anything (we call those ghost trailers and joke that the tow mirrors add power too).
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You know my beef with modern smartphones?
NO BUTTONS.
Come on! I gave up on having full QWERTY available, but can I at least have the basic stuff as something physical I can mash on when I want to get it to do stuff? Screen fondling just doesn't do it for me.
My smartphone has full physical QWERTY, albeit with every letter key doubling up via alt for numbers and punctuation. And a row of physical 'get it to do stuff' buttons above that, with a trackpad. Touchscreen, shmouchscreen.
Admittedly it was two years old at Christmas, does that count as a modern smartphone?
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An old Blackberry?
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Yes.
Well I don't think of it as old, but I suppose two years (and it wasn't a brand new model at the time) is old in the context of smartphones. And sadly, new blackberries have touchscreens (although the newer of the touchscreen models has physical buttons including QWERTY as well).
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PassportStupid edits.
Why is touchscreen + buttons worse than just buttons?
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Contains Phenylalanine
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Hate them. Just hate them.
They feel all wrong.
You can't wipe the screen clean without doing goodness knows what, and heaven help you if you should dare to brush it with a fingertip while trying to press buttons.
Durability. Do you know how many times I've dropped this thing hard enough to dislodge the battery and misalign the sim? Or sat on it?
It's compact too, which helps with the sturdiness but is also a good thing in itself.
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10% alcohol
Pfft.
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what he said ↑
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The bad ideas thread is You Are Here!
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The latest Windows build includes some entertaining bugs:
- We know this one will be a bit painful but there is a bug with this build in which Win32 (desktop) apps won’t launch from the Start menu.
- The version of the Mail and Calendar apps included in this build (17.4008.42281.0) have a known issue that causes every typed letter to appear twice. Which might be funny if it weren’t so irritating.
No word on if it fucking deletes two characters every time you hit backspace.
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We know this one will be a bit painful but there is a bug with this build in which Win32 (desktop) apps won’t launch from the Start menu.
Core functionality broken, so SHIP IT ANYWAY! Did a discodev sneak in to Microsoft?
"We don't care, we don't have to. We're
the phone companyMicrosoft."
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No word on if it fucking deletes two characters every time you hit backspace.
Would it be more or less broken if it did?
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You know my beef with modern smartphones?
NO BUTTONS.
My phone has 3 physical buttons. And it is modern enough to run Android Lollipop. :P
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Core functionality broken, so SHIP IT ANYWAY! Did a discodev sneak in to Microsoft?
It is a beta, and they have a workaround (use Explorer), and they're only pushing this build to the fast track, which users have to opt in to.
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Would it be more or less broken if it did?
No, that's not the question. The question is, would it be funnier if it did.
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My phone has 3 physical buttons
Far superior Windows Phone devices have 4 physical buttons. 33% better than Android trash.
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Far superior Windows Phone devices have 4 physical buttons. 33% better than Android trash.
Why do you need a physical button for the camera shutter? Going to take pictures when the phone is off?
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I'm not sure of it applies to all Lumias, but the 920 has a two-stage shutter button; a half-press locks the focus, a full-press takes the picture. You can also use it to fire up the camera without having to unlock the phone first.
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Why do you need a physical button for the camera shutter?
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So you can do the half-press to focus thing like a real camera
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So you don't look like a complete spaz while taking photos (you can keep both hands on the phone and hold it steady)
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You can actually take photos while the phone is off, so there ("off" meaning "phone-off", not "off-off", you pedantic dickweeds)
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I'm not sure of it applies to all Lumias, but the 920 has a two-stage shutter button; a half-press locks the focus, a full-press takes the picture.
I can lock focus on my phones camera by doing a long press on the screen. This has the added advantage of allowing me to pick what I want the camera to focus on. To take a picture, I can:
- Tap the screen
- Use the voice activation feature with one of a dozen phrases
- Set up an IR remote
You can also use it to fire up the camera without having to unlock the phone first.
I can activate my camera without touching a single physical button on my phone.
- Double tap the screen to wake the phone.
- Swipe across the bottom of the screen from right to left.
- Camera is now on (and I didn't have to unlock the phone).
If I want, I can also enable a quick launch feature for the camera which has the following UX:
- Press and hold the Volume down button for about 2 seconds.
- Camera is now on (and I still didn't have to unlock the phone).
So tell me again how a physical shutter button is superior?
Edit: I believe this answers all of @blakeyrat's points as well.
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I can lock focus on my phones camera by doing a long press on the screen. This has the added advantage of allowing me to pick what I want the camera to focus on.
It is possible to half-press then move the phone before pushing the shutter completelyAnd why is a physical button better? Keeps your fingers away from the screen, so you can see it better, of course!
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I can lock focus on my phones camera by doing a long press on the screen.
That works on Lumia too. Having a physical button doesn't magically make the screen stop working.
So tell me again how a physical shutter button is superior?
4 buttons. Not 3. That's one more buttons.
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It is possible to half-press then move the phone before pushing the shutter completely
I know how locking the focus works. ;)
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It is a beta, and they have a workaround (use Explorer), and they're only pushing this build to the fast track, which users have to opt in to.
Which I stupidly did to get the last build. Dammit.
Oh well, they should have it fixed soon enough
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Do phone cameras even have shutters or are we talking meth-euphorically?
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Fetamorically ;)
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I'm not sure of it applies to all Lumias, but the 920 has a two-stage shutter button; a half-press locks the focus, a full-press takes the picture. You can also use it to fire up the camera without having to unlock the phone first.
Nokia has been doing this since their first camera phone. AFAIR the N90 and the 36501 had the camera button.
[1] If you search "nokia ugly phones" the 3650 is the first on the list and my first smartphone... I was such a wild guy!
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I liked it, it was pretty fast to write SMSs with it. You could also swap the color case
Oh! And that button? It was for copy/paste. Imagine the look on my face when I used the iPhone and it didn't have that feature
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So… what were they smoking when they came up with that button layout?
They got the numbers going the right way, but 1 should be at the upper right.
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They got the numbers going the right way, but 1 should be at the upper right.
They should just have used a clock layout - with 0 instead of 12, * instead of 10 and # instead of 11
The disc thing could have been in the middle then and the weird button i never heard of could just have been .. uh ... somewhere?
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So… what were they smoking when they came up with that button layout?
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What ever happened to jog dials?
Stupid patents...
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Damn Nanny States ...taking all the fun out of going to funerals
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