Personally, I'd rather see Evolv stuff stay the way it is, high quality, accurate, controllers for vaping. I have enough MP3 players, GPS stuff, pedometers and yadda yadda already. A touch screen just adds another way for setting to change "by accident" and need more space, more electronics and more battery capacity. If you have a smartphone, you already have all that stuff and a ton more and no one goes anywhere without their smartphone. Adding that kind of stuff to a vaping controller just seems a waste of technology, space and battery, charge cycle. Then again, I admit to being very happy as a dinosaur.
I agree! Colour Touch screens & mp3 players, thats all just fluff who needs it?
What vaping needs IMO is better, safer, smaller batteries! Maybe new coil tech is what it will take? kind of like the digital phones as a posed to the old analog. This was the big event that greatly improved battery life for phones.
I remember back in the late 80's cell phones had these huge, lame batteries. Today there a fraction of the size & last exponentially longer.
Given the option I would cary around a much smaller device, if it didn't compromise power & vape time
OMG! You poor women how can you survive with out checking your FB 100 times a day
In all seriousness a smart phone is an invaluable tool! GPS, on the go browser for research.
E mail texting, with out it we are back in the stone age
Even entertainment.What do you do in waiting rooms? read old magazines full of other peoples germs?
I have be come heavily reliant on my phone & don't leave home with out it!
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I agree! Colour Touch screens & mp3 players, thats all just fluff who needs it?
What vaping needs IMO is better, safer, smaller batteries! Maybe new coil tech is what it will take? kind of like the digital phones as a posed to the old analog. This was the big event that greatly improved battery life for phones.
I remember back in the late 80's cell phones had these huge, lame batteries. Today there a fraction of the size & last exponentially longer.
Given the option I would cary around a much smaller device, if it didn't compromise power & vape time
I agree with both of you, don't need all those bells and whistles. Only thing I think would be nice is maybe Bluetooth capabilities so we could connect to escribe via tablets and smartphones, of course they would have to make an escribe app.
I too would like to see smaller mods with the same capabilities as the 200's and 75's. I have yet to get and try the new 60's, do they give as good of a vape? I'm waiting to get my honey-do list cleared then I want to get a 60 small screen and see if I can mod it into a ZNA. I have four new ZNA30 clones I picked up a year ago on closeout and bought 40 boards for them, got one done, the rest are still setting on my bench.
Don't feel alone tibs, I still use my old flip phone, it costs me about $28 for three months of service. My wife got a new iphone so I took her old lg smartphone but I don't use it as a phone, I use the offline GPS. I downloaded google maps to cover half of NY and the northern section of PA, all the areas I'm likely to travel. If I was out and needed more coverage I could always find free wifi and download more maps in a couple minutes. And I can always find a spot and jump on the web if I'm out and needed to look up something or check my emails.
First thing I did with that phone is put black tape over the camera's, I do the same thing with any laptop or tablet I get. I also disable the microphones, I need to root this smartphone so I can disable the mic on it too, taped for now. I know they can still track the device ID via IP address's when connected and the via the GPS, but at least they can't listen or see anything. I also pull the battery's when I'm not using them, even on my flip phone, I'll be damn if I'll make it any easier for them then I have too. Yeah yeah, must be I have something to hide...... No I just like to be Free from intrusion. If they want to snoop on me, they're going to be very bored. At this point in my life it's very quite and uneventful, my high points are waiting for the mailman and trash pickup on fridays.
First thing I did with that phone is put black tape over the camera's, I do the same thing with any laptop or tablet I get. I also disable the microphones, I need to root this smartphone so I can disable the mic on it too, taped for now. I know they can still track the device ID via IP address's when connected and the via the GPS, but at least they can't listen or see anything. I also pull the battery's when I'm not using them, even on my flip phone, I'll be damn if I'll make it any easier for them then I have too. Yeah yeah, must be I have something to hide......
No I just like to be Free from intrusion. If they want to snoop on me, they're going to be very bored. At this point in my life it's very quite and uneventful, my high points are waiting for the mailman and trash pickup on fridays.
I too love the tech in a smartphone, there is more power in my smartphone than there was in my first desktop computer.
Alas, I fully realize it is at a hit to my privacy. Being an IT manager I am well aware of the digital footprint we leave, well, maybe not fully aware (NSA etc). It is damn near impossible to be off the digital grid. It is a choice we have to make, utilize the modern technology knowing we are leaving a footprint, or dont use it. GPS and communications are just too valuable to me to "go dark". I do try to minimize it where I can by doing things like turning off Cortana etc.
Alas, I fully realize it is at a hit to my privacy. Being an IT manager I am well aware of the digital footprint we leave, well, maybe not fully aware (NSA etc). It is damn near impossible to be off the digital grid. It is a choice we have to make, utilize the modern technology knowing we are leaving a footprint, or dont use it. GPS and communications are just too valuable to me to "go dark". I do try to minimize it where I can by doing things like turning off Cortana etc.
I finally surrendered my old Casio GZ One Rock for a smartphone, well an antique, refurbished, smartphone, Galaxy Rugby Pro because it's ruggedized. I'll probably upgrade it to a more recent antique, a Galaxy S5 since it's the last one with a replaceable battery and pretty rugged as well. To be honest, I use it primarily as a phone, but having the ability to watch TV, listen to a scanner radio, listen to a regular radio (AM/FM), track how many steps I take a day and all the standard messaging stuff makes it more handy than the GZ. The camera is significantly better as well which I do use on a regular basis. If somebody wants to hack my phone and look at my ugly phizz I really don't care, probably scare the bejeesus out of them anyway.
I'm using Consumers Cellular, ATT network (GSM), and it's fairly cheap especially compared to what I was paying VZ for a lousy dumb phone. My bill, with 200mb of data, is $20 per month. I have yet to reach 200mb of data and talk minutes never get over 150 of talk time. I think my record for texts is about 30 with a max of 3000. I hate texting, a total waste of time especially because I try to write complete sentences with proper spelling and grammar.
Anybody want a GZ One with spare batteries, some brand new? VZ network though.
I'm using Consumers Cellular, ATT network (GSM), and it's fairly cheap especially compared to what I was paying VZ for a lousy dumb phone. My bill, with 200mb of data, is $20 per month. I have yet to reach 200mb of data and talk minutes never get over 150 of talk time. I think my record for texts is about 30 with a max of 3000. I hate texting, a total waste of time especially because I try to write complete sentences with proper spelling and grammar.
Anybody want a GZ One with spare batteries, some brand new? VZ network though.
I too hate (HATE I say) texting. In my book it is only useful for one or two word responses to things like "home", "get milk" etc.
My boss is an avid texter and it takes 20 minutes to to do his back/forth stuff via txt in what could have been a 2 minute voice conversation.
Plus, I have large hands/thumbs, it just isnt ergonomic for me.
My boss is an avid texter and it takes 20 minutes to to do his back/forth stuff via txt in what could have been a 2 minute voice conversation.
Plus, I have large hands/thumbs, it just isnt ergonomic for me.
Yeah, I'm not ready to live in a cave up in the hills, all these gadgets are neat but I'll limit what technology I'll use. They are collecting data on all of us and shifting through it daily, if they want to key in on you and watch you they are going to and there isn't anything we can do to stop it. I looked at satellite images of our house and there I am in the front yard on my john deere mowing the lawn, it showed my neighbor when he was cleaning out his car, all fours doors and the trunk were open, I remember the day and time I was out there and saw him..... Then on google streets it showed me walking across my yard, couldn't make out any features but there I was, I felt invaded.
Chinese and other foreign companies dont have to worry about the FDA deeming crap as much as a domestic company does.There's quiet a few new mods out there now with touch screens, some with pedometers and mp3 players built in.
Evovl needs to get on board with this don't they?
LoL, I hate hate hate texting too, I mean if you can take the time to type a text, why can't you just give me a damn call and tell me what you want!!! I finally had to drop the hammer on my friends and family, I told them that's it, I'm done! Unless it was a damn emergency and there was no other way to reach me I will not reply to texts anymore, it all stopped within a couple days.
I wish I could tell my boss that, and get away with it.
IDK, seems like texting is the new wave! Quick, easy, cheeper you can attach a pic or vid
It can be done over wifi, it's all good
It can be done over wifi, it's all good
In all the years I've had a cell phone, and I've had one since the when the analog Motorola flip phone was THE phone to have, text has only been useful once and even that was semi-useful. When that earthquake hit in Virginia, the one that damaged the Washington Monument, my wife texted me because the voice network was overloaded. It was funny, we're on a sand base that goes down, probably at least 100 feet, I was out in the yard when it happened and didn't feel a thing. She works right near the Delaware River, rock base at the surface, and they evacuated the building as a precaution until they found out what was going on.
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