Filofax thinks I'm french? Also shitty Android <-> Exchange integration
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Sure. Most phones have a range sensor to detect if they are near your face or not.
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it does that automatically.
Now that could be awkwardly embarrassing. There have been several occasions where I just put the phone down, walk away and do something productive, com back, pick the phone up and say "yes dear" and hang up.
I like the feature where you flip the phone and the call "goes away", for several reasons. Mainly because I (and everybody) don't have to listen to it ringing, and because the caller thinks I'm not not there. I have also witnessed looks from those around me (that I wish to interpret as "hero worship", that I do this without looking to see who is calling). Actually I do it because my phone is a tool I use, and I'm not a tool to be used by the phone
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Since it displays this feature quite prominently, you can also disable the switch to loudspeaker mode instantly.
Not exactly rocket science.
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Mainly because I (and everybody) don't have to listen to it ringing
I answer mine, mostly.
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Not exactly rocket science.
Never implied it was one way or the other, just said it was potentially embarrassing. Which is an often unforeseen consequence of being human. I.e You are mainly in a loud environment, so you have your phone volume abnormally high to hear it over the background noise. Then when you are in quiet area (something that seldom, if ever happens) and you answer a call that (almost) immediately "shouts" out "Hi Mr [insert name, in a format that will have assumptions made about it, here], I have your STD results for you"............
just a general tool then
No, I am a very specialised tool, one that has the potential to fuck up just about any situation imaginable.
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Yeah. Works fine. You have to turn on speaker phone so you can look at the screen, though. And I'll admit with Windows Phone it's kind of awkward to get back into "phone mode" after going into "app mode" (not actually modes, but you know what I mean.) There's some swipe thing you can do, but I usually end up just going home and hitting the phone icon because I never remember the swipe thing.
What kind of shitty smartphone do you have where you can't do that?
I think the very first iPhone I bought, which was the very first 3G model, didn't allow multitasking like that, but everything I've owned since did it fine. (And at the time that iPhone was out, Windows Mobile and Blackberry definitely supported it, so it was just an Apple issue.)
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There's some swipe thing you can do, but I usually end up just going home and hitting the phone icon because I never remember the swipe thing.
The notification area becomes slightly taller and turns the accent color. You can tap it to go back to the call. This (should) also work with other registered "phone" apps, such as Skype and Lync -- and Google Voice, when they decide to stop mewling about HTML5-everywhere-but-Android.
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first smartphone
I just wanted to point out that this isn't a smartphone.
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I just wanted to point out that this isn't a smartphone.
Why? Because it didn't have a touchscreen back when "touch"screens were resistive and sucked ass? Sod off.
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What kind of shitty smartphone do you have where you can't do that?
There you go making unwarranted assumptions again. I never said I can't do that.
I just find it a lot easier when I'm talking to someone on the phone to just grab a scrap of paper (and a pen) and jot down some notes on that (which I can then transfer properly at my leisure to my phone after the call has ended) rather than trying to do some kind of cell phone juggling act in the middle of a call.
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OK, I was wrong. It's indeed a smartphone.
For me, what differentiates smartphone from regular mobile is whether the operating system allows installing arbitrary applications that fully integrate with the system or not. J2ME allows little to no integration. Android gives so much freedom to apps that you can even replace the default phone call app. Windows 8 is somewhere inbetween, closer to Android. Iunno about Windows CE in this HTC Sonata, but I believe it's pretty close. Though at first glance, it looked like typical mobile phone utilizing J2ME. Don't expect me to read the technical details listed on the right of a pretty image at 1AM.
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@Gaska said:
I just wanted to point out that this isn't a smartphone.
Explain.
Well duh, it has Microsoft software on it
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Which actually was quite impressive to other geeks at that time.
"Hey, you've got Solitaire on your phone?"
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Because it didn't have a touchscreen back when "touch"screens were resistive and sucked ass?
My Blackjack II was a Windows phone, and thus a smartphone, but it didn't have a touchscreen. I think OS, loosely speaking, is a major consideration. Windows, iOS, Android, form a nonexhaustive list of "if the phone is running this, it's a smartphone". Symbian I am willing to consider as a possibility but I tend to lean towards no. I don't know what that phone was, but that was probably the criterion for exclusion, OS.
Moto's old OS, that the Razr etc used, also, not a smartphone.
