5G - yay or nay?

[D41]

. How much?? That's insane.

[Cav]

Most flagships are pushing £1000

Also, the fact these phones are costing more is not so good for the likes of Machine Tool companies and companies which make products for Machine Tools. People are keeping their phones for longer (36month contracts are a thing) which means fewer replacements, lower production numbers and smaller bonus for me this month

Obviously, it's better for the environment but it won't be long before Pixel 3As and S10es are outselling and out profiting the flagships so they will try to increase phone turnover again - bye bye environment

[D41]

I use an old LG-something that came out of The Ark. It's compact & does everything I need....I don't even know what it cost me, but it wasn't much....couple of hundred dollars, maybe a bit more.
These new phones are the size of a chequebook....you can't hardly put them in your pocket, you need a holster.
Pretty soon we'll be back to walkie-talkie sized phones & call it "progress".

[Cav]

Pretty soon americans will have a chip implanted in them which enables in-body satellite navigation, in-body Google and you'll be able to export your bodily functions for the internet doctor to analyse.

[D41]

I know what Monty would say to that suggestion.

[Kwacky]

Pretty soon americans will have a chip implanted in them which enables in-body satellite navigation, in-body Google and you'll be able to export your bodily functions for the internet doctor to analyse.

Welcome to the world of Black Mirror

Some US companies already chip their employees.

[Cav]

I have been meaning to watch that.. any good?

[Kwacky]

I like it. Some of the episodes are a bit weak but they all stand alone so you can quickly move on.

The one I watched yesterday was about a device you can wear which records all of your memories, so you can play everything back on a screen or to yourself.

[D41]

So in other words a GoPro?

[Kwacky]

apart from it recording your memories and being installed in your brain and you using your brain to edit and find items and having unlimited memory and not needing batteries and being able to watch play backs through your brain

yeah, identical.

[D41]

I knew it!

What I was getting at was "images", because it seems to me that your mind is all pictures.....just as when I look at a photo you might post...say, from your trip to Japan - anyone could have taken that. When I look at a photo I've taken myself , it evokes a memory of much more than just an image, it brings back an experience.

[Kwacky]

are you calling my Japan photos ordinary?

[D41]

No....I thought they were very good. I told you at the time you've got a good eye for angles. I can't take a decent photo to save my life.

[kiwikrasher]

No....I thought they were very good. I told you at the time you've got a good eye for angles. I can't take a decent photo to save my life.

Or post one to save your life

[D41]

Am I detecting a morsel of sarcasm?

[Monty]

Looks like he's had his sarcasm chip installed. He'll be detecting irony next!

[duke63]

Americans and their immigrants need a sarcasm and irony chip. They would have to import them though as they wouldn’t know where to start when making one.

[D41]

Thanks for that.

And talking to you two is like being Geoffrey on Rainbow.

[Monty]

What, Gay?

[D41]

Blasphemy!!

Although there wasn't too much doubt about Bungle.