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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
computer>smartphone>featurephone

N900 wins, FLAWLESS VICTORY.

Seriously, what is a smartphone anyway?


"My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the road warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time. When the world was powered by the black fuel, and the desert sprung great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. Suddenly their machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting and a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men.

On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, waging war for a tank of juice. Good brave men were battered and smashed. Men like Max, who ruled the highways in the name of the law. Who became a lover, husband, father. And with the roar of an engine, he lost everything, his woman, his child, his world. He wandered out into the wasteland, and here he would learn, amid the dark wreckage, that the fire which burns in the heart of man, will endure. Hope survives."


When the apocalypse comes I will be fine rocking my pocket computer + diesel powered KLR650. All you bozos with your carhart hoodies and iphone 6s, well. Your ****ed.

The iphone excels at the trivial, that is all.
Rock-paper-scissors... Featurephone is everlasting, because it doesn't need updates from outside world, and does not depend on anybody to continue supporting it. It's still beautiful, after all these years, akin to a rock crystal.
Smartphone is cursed for being unable to do something, or for doing too much (Android camera automatically focuses itself every second because the device does not have a dedicated camera button with half-press, and there is neither a setting to turn this annoyance off so that it would focus only when a photograph is being taken, nor an openness to change the software interface so that it would include half-press-capable software button for autofocus and taking picture).
And don't forget the 'simple' phone, with black-and-white screen. It's smooth in the hand like a worn gray pebble, and solid as a rock. It's an anachronism like a cuckoo-clock. And on some occasions, it function as well (making a call) or even better (taking a plunge in a lake) than a smartfeaturephonemobilecomputer.
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On the topic of apocalypse, have you read "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny?
Thank you. Best wishes.
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