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Which phone would win in a battle to the death?
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 20 2014, @04:56PM
Definitely the shoe phone, because holding it up is offensive to Muslims. Plus, you can throw it [vosizneias.com] at George W. Bush when he destroys your entire country for war profit.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday June 20 2014, @07:25PM
I agree with you because you can also use it to curb stomp any other phone listed above. This is the fight to the death and the shoe phone has the obvious physical advantage.
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(Score: 2) by forsythe on Saturday June 21 2014, @04:55AM
The Nokia might put up a struggle, but in the end, I have to go with the Shoe Phone as well, since the Nokia only excels at defense, and can't really mount an attack itself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by redneckmother on Saturday June 21 2014, @05:02AM
I dunno - those hand crank wall phones are pretty stout.
Also, they can double as an interrogation device.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @09:54PM
Explain?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 23 2014, @07:31AM
It's obvious.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday June 23 2014, @02:56PM
Also, you can bang it on the table [wikipedia.org] for attention at the UN.
Missing option: A bananaphone.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday June 23 2014, @03:22PM
And by "missing option", I mean "missing brain", since it is a listed option.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Friday June 20 2014, @05:24PM
About five years ago I took a few movies and lots of pictures ate the St Patrick's Day parade and emailed them from my two year old flip phone to my daughter. She said it wiped out her new iPhone, getting rid of all her messages, emails, and photos she had on it after it crashed.
She had three of them, all of which died with broken screens. I've never broken the screen on a phone, even when it would slip out of my hand and hit a wooden floor.
The Android I have now is waterproof; I'd lost one phone by getting caught in a downpour and another that fell into the sink. Why aren't all phones waterproof? I understand Samsung as a waterproof model, mine's a much cheaper phone.
But meh, a phone's a phone.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by anubi on Saturday June 21 2014, @05:46AM
I am still using my old Western Electric 500-series phones.
One of them ( with the dial ) was old when I was a kid, which makes it about 70 years old or so... this is the one with the carbon microphone and every bit of the electrical wiring in it is all passive components. Not a transistor or diode in it. I believe it is all switches, inductors, and capacitors in it that made it work. I remember the ringer was mechanically resonant at 20 hz or so. I remember disconnecting the ringer because years ago it was illegal to tie anything to the phone line... and the way the phone company would find out about it is sending a ring signal down the line and measuring the current. When those old phones were on-hook, if the ringer was not connected, they were completely off the line. One could not tell anything about how many phones were connected to the line if only one ringer was connected. You know you could actually dial those old phones with the hook switch?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday June 21 2014, @01:43PM
Those old phones were completely passive and had no electronics in them at all, not even resistors or capacitors; amplification was done at the phone company. Transistors didn't exist then, although Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor (FET) in Canada in 1925 but had no working prototype. The first transistor was made in 1947 or 1948, your phone is probably at least that old. Those things were very well built.
And yes, you could dial them with the hook. When I was a teenager I worked at a drive in theater, and the phone in the ticket booth had no dial. It didn't keep me from calling people although numbers with an 8 or 9 in them weren't easy to dial.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday June 22 2014, @11:38AM
She said it wiped out her new iPhone, getting rid of all her messages, emails, and photos she had on it after it crashed.
Did she then get you to pay for the latest version?
Only issue I have with iphones are the batteries, which after about 800 charges starts to get a bit ropey, so I get a new one. They aren't exactly expensive.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday June 22 2014, @03:21PM
It wasn't that old at the time, Androids might not have even come out yet. It was a "subsidized" phone, she had a 2 year contract. It didn't hurt the phone, it set it to factory defaults when it crashed and rebooted.
My phone at the time was a Motorola flip phone.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Buck Feta on Sunday June 22 2014, @01:37PM
> ate the St Patrick's Day parade
Now that would be a Godzilla movie I'd watch. Godzilla stumbles into the Boston SPDP, eats some of the revelers, and end up drunk off his ass.
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(Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday June 21 2014, @06:47PM
The old black eyesore that that phone company "rented" you as part of your landline service. They were so rugged that they'd likely survive a nuclear attack (well, maybe). And, because they were so heavy, they could be used as a deadly weapon in a pinch. The handset alone was an effective club.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by looorg on Sunday June 22 2014, @08:11PM
The other option: A Ericsson Hotline 450 phone has a weight of about four kg. I think it would be able to crush those other puny phones.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Tramii on Monday June 23 2014, @09:49PM
A Star Trek Comm Badge can call for immediate evacuation (Beam me up, Scotty!) and then have the area flattened via phasers or photo torpedoes.
'Nuff said!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 24 2014, @02:07AM
>photo torpedoes
which is sadly achievable with some of the phones listed above.
and it wouldn't be a nice way to die, either way
(Score: 1) by jb on Tuesday June 24 2014, @10:53AM
Otherwise known as the "digital brick" (from the mid '90s).
I once accidentally drove over mine with a 1 ton ute (fully loaded).
The only damage it suffered was the battery fell off. Once I put the battery back on again, it worked perfectly (and lasted almost a decade thereafter).
Before the "digital brick" came the "slim brick" and before that the original "brick phone" (both analogue) -- whilst both of those were bigger & heavier than the digital brick, they weren't quite as impact- or crush- resistent.