Stooo wrote:jra wrote:Stooo wrote:jra wrote:Fair enough Stooo, you have your specific requirements. I had to Google what a notch screen was, I'll confess. All I need a smartphone for is to make/receive phone calls and send/receive texts and that's about it really. I find mobile phone screens generally too small, plus the buttons as well.
Most often for photography I use my bridge camera which for £90 is pretty good, but it's not very versatile like a DSLR where I can change lenses, use filters, mount it on a proper stand (as can my bridge camera), and both have a hand grip.
I find it quite hard to hold a mobile phone very steady when taking photos and it's very easy to block the lens with your fingers.
Ever sat in a dead motorway queue with the handbrake on and engine off?
Yes. In the 90's on the M25.
I was working in Hemel at the time and had to deliver some disk drives (*) to a place in Hook, Hampshire. On the way out I was overtaken by a Mercedes on the M3 and it's wheels flicked up a stone chip onto my car. I heard the impact and thought nothing of it. On the way back the traffic was so heavy on the M25 I had time to get out of the car in the outside lane of the motorway and investigate possible damage. The stone chip had hit the windscreen, but right by the very edge on the drivers side. I had time to do this inspection before the traffic had even moved. Once I got off the M1 for Hemel there was a crack on my windscreen half way across by the time I got home.
We are spoilt these days technology wise. You should know, you're my age. If you got stuck in a traffic jam, you've literally just sat it out or read a book or newspaper or something. If you need a car for your job, fair enough, but I don't. The traffic was bad enough 25 years ago. Now it's just a complete nightmare, which is why I choose not to have a car right now.
(*) The huge ones that they used to use in mainframes at the time. Rooms full of boxes type machines that needed air conditioning.
Here we go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer
I was working for the MOD at the time.
I can read a book or a newspaper online from my phone without the need for peripheral devices. I'm as happy to read digital versions of the same media, and it's better for the environment.
No issue with that, but the scenario I mentioned happened 1990/1991. Things have obviously moved on a bit since then. But, point taken. Like I said before, you have different requirements from me.
I guess I'm old school. When I go to Devon by train I spend most of my time looking out the window (especially along Dawlish Sea Wall) observing things rather than playing with my devices and being unaware of what is going on around me. I generally like to observe the scenery, people and what is going on, rather than being immersed in my own little world with my devices, like many of the younger generation these days seem to be.