Mobile phones-nessacary or pointless?

kinda remember my uncle when visited us, he has 4 phones clutched up his belt. 2 htc touch screen, i think 1 nokia and 1 samsung/ or also a nokia, the 2 looks the same.

he got all of them for free due to his jobs. which is kinda cool. but if look at it logically, its a bit dangerous cause it could pull your pants down. hehehe

 

or a target for pick pockets

Good point-lucky you didn'tpost first-topic would have died

...was that you 5 mins ago ???

 

hehehe, does that mean your the one who took his phone? lol

Back to topic, in a Graduate school, owning a cellphone is a big advantage cause you can ask your classmates for the lessons or topics you missed cause of work.

 

Or, you could call them when you get home on your landline..


The only thing I use my phone for is another mp3 player :S

 

I think that the older generation would only have problems with the RF "poisining" everybody seems to be so scared about.if we look at it this way thaey say that music that you play for a unborn baby makes it smarter right?now sound waves are just vibrations in the air and Radio Frequency's(RF or Wireless) is the same thing so tell me is this just a random event or are they related(please note that the Avarage intellect of people have been skyrocketing the last few years and besides the Human Creature's greatest advantage is change

 

Radiation is a form of frequency

 

and radiation is a form of Wave that sits in the sub-light range

 

In both this post and in your two subsequent posts you have presented a quite common lack of knowledge in the science behind radiation. As to your mention of average intellect 'skyrocketing' as you put it. Can you provide some evidence? I am quite sure that given the great work that has been done to educate those from very poor backgrounds you may be correct, as any education in these areas must improve the base human average. However you seem to suggest that some people have undergone an intellectual jump, I find that very hard to believe but I would be very interested to see evidence that shows such a trend. Perhaps I am reading your words wrong, but if you are only making reference to global averages in intelligence I cannot see what point you're are trying to make.



Back to topic. I think mobile phones are wonderful, I had one for a while and it was a great alarm clock for me, also I could phone people when I needed to(I never did as I had no need to). That is not the point, the point is if I had needed to contact someone I could, so that is a great thing, it was nice to have the ability to do that even if I never used it. I did text people, I enjoyed texting, I think texting is a wonderful world of language, I see no problem with SMS speak, in fact I would go as far as saying it is one of the most democratic and inventive uses of languages that I have ever seen. It goes beyond even pidgin languages as a beautiful mash of global shorthand, and what makes it even more profound, is that no individual or nation or race or class invented it. It just became. Like many others I detest 1337 speak and SMS speak outside of it's electronic territorial boundaries.

Are mobile phones good things? yeah sure they are, can the masts make people sick? yeah sure they can(climb up on one and prove me wrong). Do the hazards outweigh the benefits? nope, not if you live in a nation with viable internet and an emergency service network that can respond to net based information(oh, come to think of it, that would be nowhere).
So the mobile phone should stay until the already available web infrastructure(in wealthy nations) is developed to meet the needs of basic emergency communication, but that may take a while, there is not allot of money to be made in such a system.

I did miss my mobile phone until I realised that an ambulance is still slower than a taxi, and that bad news from others is best presented in a slow and sober manner.

 

True, a very large convenience

 

I would actually have to say that it is a necessity now.
For my work, my boss sends me text messages to say whether we have work the next day or not.

Can't do that on house phones...

 

But you can have a 10 second phone call.

'Hey, work's tomorrow'
'Okay then'

But I understand what you mean.

 

Yeah but when he sends out the same message 60 or so times...calls are kinda a long process.

 

I need it,
because that's the only way(in the easiest way) for me to contact my far-away girlfriend.

 

I think it all depends on your current situation. So to some people it won't be needed at all but others can totally depend on them.

 

since i got my iphone it is even more nessacary to have a phone as it is needed to organize my life

 

well, actually, it is a very well known fact that cellphones emit some kind of frequency wave that damages your braincells. i, for one, have a phone (nokia 5230 for 6€, it plays music very well, mds64. with earphones, that is, the sound column is not that bad, but earphones are preferable), but when i go to sleep, i never have it near me, it's usually one floor below me, far from everyone at my house.

proof of the power of the wave is that it can shut hospital machinery down.

tell that to the noobs that come to the forum saying "ZOMG I NEED HELP PLZ R U HAVIN DIS PROB WIV DAT?" and crap like that.

i do have a cell and i don't think i could live without it, because i tend to go over to my friends' house a lot and with a cell planning gets much easier. also, my mp3 player's (creative zen 8GB, best thing i ever saw) screen cracked a while ago and i didn't have something to listen to music for that time, so i got a good cell that could also be my mp3 player. plus, knowing that i don't have a portable console, my cell becomes my "console" when waiting for the bus or when i'm at a class.

and yes, i do not think anyone would need a goddamned iPhone or HTC touch phone or anything of the likes. who the hell ever uses all of those gadgets at a useful time in his lifetime?

what do you mean by organising your life, equity?

 

i don't carry anything with me and i work odd hours and go to lots of events/meetings so for one i can use a big easy to use calender, make notes, read emails, send emails, check things on the net (like today i went on metcheck and looked at the weather for where we were doing activities outside), I'm always carrying a phone and mp3 player so why not combine the both and finally I'm a geek so i do use all the little gadgets.

no it can't, and it doesn't effect it. I've seen nurses and doctors using them in hospitals, I've used them, patients use them (and are allowed to).
the reason they ask you is just i case it affects something and mainly because its annoying to have phones going off when your recovering in hospital.

same with planes, it used to effect old equipment but not modern ones.

and with gas stations (it won't make one blow up)