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2010-09-03 , 08:18
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
Blathering ? You call people's opinion blathering ? Thats nice coming from you - who never owned a N900 and kept critiquing a device which you don't even own. I don't recall anyone calling your criticism as blathering. Just because you are a recent Android convert doesnt mean you have to get all fanboyish on me the moment I give my opinions on the uselessness of a phone on a 7" tablet.

And yes I have used a BT headset and have that much sense that you can initiate and end a call (you didnt have to read it literally as if I meant only for initiation and ending calls) but for many functions you have to take out the tablet - like to mute or switch a call or conference other people. Anyways its not the technicalities that matter, its the convenience (or rather the inconvenience of a 7" phone) that matters to ME.
For the record, I'm not so much an Android convert so much as a convert away from Nokia. I've recently had to call Motorola on the battery cover for my Android going missing (they slide off and I dislike the way it's designed, although there's a hack out there to make it reliably stay on). I called to complain and they decided to ship me a new battery cover--free, with free shipping. This is in addition to Verizon's excellent replacement policies when I had to return my last Droid, had a lost/stolen one before that, and a case where Amazon replaced a defective pair of these Motorola Bluetooth headphones immediately without even asking my to ship back my old pair until I got the new pair so that I was never without them.

Nokia, by contrast, never wanted to even SELL me replacement parts much less send me a replacement part (not even a stylus), nor did they even want to do anything for me when their flimsy bluetooth headphones broke (except unless you call a discount on their MSRP of $100 at the time being $75 versus the $45 I had paid for them originally some kind of service). Feh. It's funny calling me a convert, given all that, as if it's a bad thing.

Anyway... getting back on track:
Had you opinionated something, you would have a point. I was calling your inaccuracies the blatherings. You claimed that you wouldn't be able to call or hang up with a bluetooth headset. The fact that you find it inconvenient might be speaking more to the Bluetooth headset than to the device. Also, depending on your headset (like the one I have) you can also switch conference calls and mute using dedicated phone buttons. But then, I use a pretty swanky pair of Motorola Bluetooth stereo headphones (after owning a bunch, including a pair of flimsy Nokia bluetooth headphones). I'd never have to take it out. I take it that you've never owned an Android either, from your tone. It's okay, I assume you just went blood-rage and decided to lash out instead of reading WHY I called them blatherings. I'm not sorry I pointed that out to you, but if you were insulted by that then I regret that you took offense and I also forgive you for your rage.
 

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