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>> A phone with >2 mins talktime?
Tue, Apr 12th 3:52pm 2005: Tech Toys
That would be a miracle for me! My current phone is totally dodgy - fully charged it can be on standby for about 2 days, but as soon as a call is connected it thinks the battery is flat and I get about 2 minutes talk time. If I'm lucky. Then it just cuts out. So I get just about enough time to tell the other person that I'll have to call them back on a landline, and then "beeeeep", then silence. Grrrrrrr! The really annoying thing is that after turning the phone back on it thinks the battery is fine again and is happy to once again be on standby for a day or so. It's like it doesn't mind being turned on, it just really doesn't like it when I talk to people.
Hmmm, maybe the problem is that I've got an antisocial phone. That would explain it.
This morning I got so pissed at it that I ordered a new phone. Nothing flash, in fact just about the cheapest I could find, but if it lets me have an entire conversation without having to switch to a landline I'll be ecstatic. Maybe now my current phone will get scared and start working, like the Exim setup that mysteriously started working again last week when an email was sent to it threatening to replace it with Postfix. Tech toys are cranky like that sometimes.
That would be a miracle for me! My current phone is totally dodgy - fully charged it can be on standby for about 2 days, but as soon as a call is connected it thinks the battery is flat and I get about 2 minutes talk time. If I'm lucky. Then it just cuts out. So I get just about enough time to tell the other person that I'll have to call them back on a landline, and then "beeeeep", then silence. Grrrrrrr! The really annoying thing is that after turning the phone back on it thinks the battery is fine again and is happy to once again be on standby for a day or so. It's like it doesn't mind being turned on, it just really doesn't like it when I talk to people.
Hmmm, maybe the problem is that I've got an antisocial phone. That would explain it.
This morning I got so pissed at it that I ordered a new phone. Nothing flash, in fact just about the cheapest I could find, but if it lets me have an entire conversation without having to switch to a landline I'll be ecstatic. Maybe now my current phone will get scared and start working, like the Exim setup that mysteriously started working again last week when an email was sent to it threatening to replace it with Postfix. Tech toys are cranky like that sometimes.
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