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I knew I wasn't the only sad git who doesn't just throw stuff away because you've bought something new! It's strange going back to 2G reception though - a lot lower frequency, so the base stations are spaced a lot wider apart, and the signal comes and goes slowly as you drive around.

4 posts, 2 month old member? No offence, but not me.

You can get sim adapters that take a micro sim and let you use it in a mini sim phone, I got a load free with the "micro sim punch" I bought when I got the iPhone 4S

Hell yeah bro! Dig that phone out and it's charger and let it come back to life!

Yep, I can't remember which variant Razr this is but it wasn't available in the UK and I imported it from the US. Vanity! Bag phones! Picked up a dead one to play with a while after they'd bought out sensible mobiles - silly things but must have been exciting when they first came out. One of my employers gave me a pager, loved it as you could turn it off or ignore it and they could never get that mad as no way to prove the page actually reached you

After digging out the iPhone 4S for a couple of weeks I dug a bit deeper... Using the Motorola flip for now, nice and loud and the battery still lasts 3~4 days Sadly the brick doesn't seem to work. It turns on, the backlight works fine, but nothing displayed on the LCD (although I can see it's powered as I can see all the segments if I tilt it against the light). So, c'mon then, we love vintage watches, dig your vintage phones out and lets see what you've got!

It isn't, there is a Want to buy section where you can post this.

I watched that video of the guy bending the 6+ and read the people who noticed the time on the phone changed around, with their allegations that it was a fake. So the guy did another "one take" bend in the high street in front of a few people. The first phone he bent in the new video, seemed to bend incredibly easily. Far, far easier than the first phone, and any other deliberately bent 6+. I wasn't bothered by the force he needed to apply to bend the first phone, but am concerned over the minimal force he needed to apply to bend that phone - makes me think that a batch (or two) of phones have been produced with a flaw that has weakened them a lot around the button area. So I'll stick with my 4S for a few months, I'm sure Apple are already looking at how they can add another 0.2mm to the width of the alloy and shrink the width of the buttons to increase strength and will apply their changes without any fuss or acknowledgement that they may have gotten it wrong in the first place. Also the number of problems in iOS 8.0.2, loads of people saying that they can't pair them with their cars handsfree systems, another reason to wait until they get all these wrinkles ironed out.

It's, err, and ideal watch for the stylistically challenged. Sorry, I mean "trendy"

When I click that link, at the bottom I get a choice to make payment via credit or debit card, which is what I assume you want to do?

I see that if you reserve one at a store you can part ex your old iphone, I think I'll go down there with the 4S, the 3S and the iPad and see how much they insult me by I've got the boxes for them all I think, and all in VGC apart from the 3S which has scratches on the curved plastic back as they all do.

I wandered into the local Apple store this evening to see what the 6 and 6+ felt like hands on. The 6 is a very nice size upgrade from my 4S. The 6 actually feels like a shop demo phone that some places still use - in that it feels that slim and light you think it must be a fake one until you swipe the screen and it works It's an equivalent size to my old Nexus 5, tiny bit smaller, but the look and feel of it leaves the Nexus dead in its wake. The interesting one to me is the 6+. I've always felt that the 4S, the Nexus 5 (and the 3 and the Dell Streak, and the Nokia 720) are too small to use for anything much other than phone and texts (unless you've got the eyesight of a 16 year old!), in an emergency I'll use them for email and web. So I've also got a current gen iPad to use alongside the phone, which is great, but big, and means two things to carry. The 6+ is great in portrait and landscape modes, and is big enough and displays enough readable text to be able to replace the iPad for 99% of what I use the iPad for. Bingo! So I'll be going for a 6+ and flogging the 4S, the 3S and the iPad which will pay for a sim free 6+.

Thanks all, I was an IT contractor from 1999 until a bad bike accident in 2001, still kept the company going for another 2 years managing a big project from home, but due to my leg taking 4+ years to heal I had to fold the company, and after it eventually healed I wasn't fit enough to commute to clients by bike. (I am now) So I'm used to working for myself and the ins and outs of IT contract work - I enjoyed it The one huge bonus from being an IT contractor is of course you don't have to put up with any of the company management BS, and if the place is bad, well, you're usually on a 3 or 6 month contract so you know you're finished there soon. Stuck with this bad manager, I've been trying to "manage" the manager for 7 years now, dropping hints left, right and centre on how to manage people effectively, had the odd argument and also meetings with the senior management but they don't seem to realise how bad he is, or don't care. He's in charge of 4 developers and has very little, if any, respect from any of us. The company isn't big enough to move to a different manager, the other two are test and customer support neither of which are my thing. Hey ho, one of those things. Onwards and upwards! Andy, thank you my friend, I will be updating my resume tomorrow and will get it over to you ASAP.

Very sorry to hear this Cats, my thoughts are with you and your family. I am of the same mind as AJ, I wouldn't bother undergoing another chemo treatment and passing away feeling like crap from now until then, get super strong pain killers and go and enjoy everything on your bucket list, and obviously loads of those things involve your family.

Peter Gabriel - caught a concert of him backed by an orchestra on Sky 3D that was damned excellent so been playing him in the car since.

I've just cancelled Sky Movies and subscribed to Netflix, use my PS3 to stream the HD movies. Works very well. One thing I need is subtitles, and Sky is crap, Amazons are non existent, and torrent movies are also non existent, so it's either Netflix or buying / renting the physical blurays or DVDs.

Well, decided enough is enough. Just one guy to blame. Was bought in as a team leader and is now development manager. He can manage the systems and build servers just fine, but he can't manage people to save himself, and is an egotistical [censored]. Enforces his ideas about design in everyone, to the extent there's no real point in designing anything yourself as he'll tell you how he would do it, and that's how we should do it. Condescending and argumentative with everyone he manages, sucks [censored] to his managers. Been here for 7 years now, and had big rows multiple times, handed in resignation once but was persuaded to stay. This guy always says he knows he has shortcomings and improves for a month, and goes right back. Has no intention to change, no intention to be a better manager, so screw it. Upper management bought him in and promoted him and I've told them the problems, nothing is done. Time to move on. Tempted to go back to IT contractor again, I know I'm easily good enough, just got to see if the market has picked up from what it was in 2001, and what the self employ / IR35 situation is now. Or if I can find a good permanent senior position I'll happily move for it too, but got to be for an excellent company and not working under a similar WOS to what I am experiencing now. Odd post for a watch forum, I know, but lately this situation has been seriously affecting my sleep and health, so, put pen to paper, commit to the plan and move on. Watch related is that I may have to liquidate my collection if I go the self employed route, to tide me over if I have a gap between client contracts! One of the downsides of contract work

I rarely buy from dealers, but I have found that they ALL operate in a different timeframe and mindset to us. They do not give us 'status updates' if there has been no change, it's just not the way they do business in their part of the world. So when we get worried by the silence and ask, they then see that as nagging them and we are then a pest (to them). It's the same with whoever they are dealing with, they'll ask someone for something and then wait. They won't chase for updates (regarded as rude), they just will get on with other things until it arrives. But obviously for this to work they have trust and honour in each other. Just the way they have done business for thousands of years. Seems alien to westerners, but you learn there's no alternative, and the better dealers do try to operate in a western way (sometimes).

I guess a lot of people here missed the article in the Register that makes if damn obvious why Androi phones are cheap, and why they won't be for much longer. Some quotes from it * Sony, which makes beautiful gadgets, this week forecast a $1.2bn loss from its all-Android smartphone business. * HTC makes even more beautiful gadgets than Sony, and its sales are lower than last year, when it struggled to break even. HTC doesn't have the deep pockets of Sony or a Korean chaebol. * Yes, Samsung makes money from Android - the only manufacturer to consistently do so - but at a huge cost. Samsung buys its success with $14bn a year marketing budget, allowing it to put out saturation advertising, pay sales staff to push its products at retail, and hype indifferent offerings in emerging markets Basically the smartphone market is saturated (apart from a few places which are targeted by low end smartphones), and the only manufacturer to repeatedly get it's existing customers to buy new toys are Apple. Say what you want about the hardware / iOS, they're the kings at marketing and keeping a captive market (albeit less so than when Jobs ran the ship), and also at maintaining (and increasing) huge profit margins (IIRC the 6+ cost them $15 more to make and they charge an extra $100 for it)

So Apple release a 4.7" phone and a 5.5" phone, and you choose the 4.7" phone to compare to a 5.7" phone. Uh? And you also (deliberately?) forgot the 6+ comes with optical image stabilisation and NFC. 3/10 for Apple bashing. Must try harder.

The cyclops looks as if it's magnifying fine, but the numbers on the date overlay look very small.

"professional"? It's someone buying illegal goods that they could do time in jail for, who then sends them on to you. Where do you think "professional" comes into it? Most are "ethical" in that they won't intentionally completely rip you off and want to maintain their good business reputation, but they all work to the same kind of timeframes, and some of them are happy to trot out the usual rubbish excuses if they think you don't know how the rep game works. (including "stock" levels, and "extra for ETA movements" (which are a waste of money now)) If any dealer says they have "stock" take that with an extremely large pinch of salt. Only a few of the big TDs who have very good relations with the factories will have "stock", and even then it'll just be for new models that they know they can sell very easily, very quickly.

You think this is bad, try living in the UK at the moment, it's wall to wall bloody Scottish referendum. No one in England can change the outcome, the changes that it will make to us we can't influence in any way, and yet all the papers, radio and TV keep cramming the crap down our throats! Sick of it!

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but you obviously had a set of specific requirements that your new phone needed to match, and from what you've said you didn't check any of them were met before you purchased the iPhone 2? If someone wanted an industrial cooker and bought a single sitting vegetable steamer I wouldn't expect that to be able to do what they wanted it to do either

The chap I got this off mentioned the poor chap in america who killed himself last year with his RC heli - looking at the YouTube video of him flying it close to himself he didn't seem to care or appreciate the tips travelling at 300+mph ain't going to stop very quickly when they meet squidgy human flesh or bone.