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Date Posted: 14:39:48 11/12/13 Tue
Author: PingonE
Author Host/IP: 204.14.132.45
Subject: Good money wasted ...
In reply to: Cutting Edge GG 's message, "I bought a phablet" on 14:33:46 11/12/13 Tue

when you desperately need to replace your ugly-ass shoes.

>Samsung S-3 Note with Verizon. I needed a new camera,
>and everyone told me buy a new phone instead. The
>camera is great. And it is easier to carry a phablet
>clipped to my belt than a laptop or a tablet, for when
>I must get on the net.
>
>But this phablet (half phone/half tablet) comes with
>no manual at all, only a help function. I kinda need
>to read the manual while looking at the correct phone
>screen. i've learned the simpler functions in the
>first week, but I needed help from Verizon tech. it
>took THEIR guy 20 minutes to tell me how to turn off
>the auto-correct. What a nightmare. I'm trying to
>text friends to take the Q train to get to the
>Gershwin theatre. The PHONE changes that to the "QUOTE
>train to get to the Gers win theatre". WTF is GERS?
>Turning that monster off is really buried in the
>phone's software.
>
>I miss the simplicity of my old phone badly. Messages
>divided into send, received and drafts! Speed dial
>single numbers, not dangerous dangerous verbal speed
>dials. At least that monster is not active by default
>into my new phone.
>
>But it was time. Cant understand why Samsung won't
>even sell me a printed manual. Verizon is holding a
>free class next week. I'm gonna go. I downloaded 9
>songs from my cloud to this phone, and I don't know
>how I did it, and why ten more refused to go.
>
>Most of the time the phone obeys me when I tell it to
>activate SKYPE. Sunday it refused, so I screamed FUCK
>YOU at the phone right in its face. I was stopped at a
>red light. A pedestrian nearby looked at me all
>upset, until I told the guy (politely ofcourse) I was
>screaming at the phone, not him. I wonder if I hurt
>the phablets's feelings.
>The next time I asked for SKYPE, it obeyed.

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