'moanin, Volties.
I was waiting for the cable box to reboot when I answered Tritium earlier.
I stuck with my old flip phone way past it's "useful" life. In fact Verizon kept pestering me for years to upgrade to a smartphone...to get me to
buy a data plan. It still works fine and it is a phone, not a tablet or handheld computer. That's really all I use them for, a phone. The Rugby is OK, but I'm not all that impressed. Yeah, it has more "zing" than a flip phone but it does seem to eat the battery a lot faster. There's a price to pay for higher horsepower processors in power consumption. I do expect to use it when on a trip sometime in the future, but other than that, it's a phone. Given it's thirst for power it'll probably end up tethered to a charger cord.
Don't feel too bad about transferring contacts manually Lizzie. I had to do the same thing when going from the GZ-One to the Rugby. It didn't take all that long while enjoying coffee after dinner.
On the smartphone/Tab7 front.
There was a piece on our local news yesterday evening about a young man whose Tab6 went up in smoke in his back pocket while in class at the local, County, college. Of course, insinuations, no direct references, were made to the problem with the Tab7 and now the Tab6 as well. He did admit that the screen was cracked but couldn't see how that could make it burst into flames in his pocket. This was accompanied by a dramatic shot of the crispy phone and the right rear pocket of his jeans, which was cut along the bottom to get the smoking phone out.
Nobody ever stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, sitting on a phone in a pair of snug or tight jeans, and his were snug but not tight, might put too much stress on the phone and cause it to short. The implication was it was the fault of that "evil" cell phone and "evil" Samsung.
I will say that Samsung seems to be having a run of bad products. First the Tab7 problem and now washing machines, top loaders, that "explode". I think they need to do some more, in depth, QC somewhere.
