My personal observations regarding the Nokia 3310
I have been using this phone for about a year. It has served me very well. I am selling it only because, largely due to the pandemic of COVID-19, I never use it for much, and decided to go back to the good ol days when there were no cell phones, and I never had to have one, let alone carry one around or pay for one.
I'm home most of the time nowdays, and when I leave, I will be really gone. So just call my home phone.
The battery is great. Much longer life per charge than typical. Never runs out if you charge it about every day, always has plenty to spare.
The settings on this pup, though limited, are not too mysterious to master. But then, mysterious and ridiculously complex control settings is mostly a smart phone thing, I think.
I like the small size but it bugs me that it isn't as small as they used to make them before touch screens were in vogue.
It has Snake if you know what that is. I don't.
It is supposed to have multimedia text and internet browsing capability but none of that has ever worked at all. Not that I wanted it to.
It is 3g. 3g works very well these days as long as you are somewhere besides my house. But I usually get a good enough signal if I go upstairs. With this phone, I started out with ATT as my carrier. I was blown away by the bad customer service and more so by the way I was treated as a major corporation as a customer, one with infinitely deep pockets. And the signal coverage wasn't ideal. So I tried Mint Mobile. Phone worked great if I went caddy corner from my house to a parking lot, didn't have any signal whatsoever if I was on my own property. It worked great as long as I was anywhere but home. Then I tried Consumer Cellular because they operate on dual carriers, ATT and some other. I presumed this meant whatever was optimal would automatically carry the signal for me but as it turned out, no. It meant I had to go to Target and deal with associates whose common sense had been washed from their brains and replaced by store algorithm, till I finally got my phone switched from the default "other" carrier to ATT. After that, life has been fine.
This has no touch screen, as you probably know. It is a dumb phone, and there are some pretty stupid things about it.
Some things are acutely stupid. Not enough that I would not rate it 4 stars out of 5, but if I were a company like Nokia, I would be embarrassed to market a product that had not 5 stars for professionalism and attention to detail. It's still a pretty good phone though.
The remainder of this review is negative only. Please keep in mind, I like this phone. It meets my expectations. You might like it even more. But now I will list the acutely stupid things and some minor negatives as well; I will let the reader decide which are which:
Very slippery. If your hands are dry, you will drop it. Fortunately, this phone is very destruction-resistant. But the battery will pop out; you will have 3 pieces to gather up and reassemble.
The flashlight, which I never ever use, turns on while the phone is in my pocket. Does it fairly regularly, drains the battery quite a lot by the time I notice, but has never left me high and dry. I don't know whether it is a pure electronic anomaly, or by designed key shortcut. But I sure was not able to find a shortcut for turning it off. Not in the manual, not on the web. I intended to take it to my drill press and carefully drill out the LED but never got round to it. And I cannot say what ill ramifications might have been had I done it.
It has a square ring for up, down, left, right menu buttons. Quite tricky and difficult to use. Also hard to intentionally hit the center button.
Has a hang up button. Hit twice to end call. Really would give me that extra little narcotic satisfaction if I could end the call with a single push.
Comes with radio and headphones. This would be a real plus for me, being the one network data feature that works, and I do like a small radio and phones to listen to, but since it isn't really a radio, just an internet thing, I get charged tremendous $$ to listen for a very short time.
If your screen goes off as timed, or if you happen to accidentally turn it off, and you try to go back in to continue what you were doing, too bad, you are locked out. You must press unlock and then press * to get in. This includes going in to turn off your flashlight. So however the light gets turned on accidentally, I must assume it does it without having to get in by unlocking it. But to turn it off, you must unlock it. And then use the tricky buttons to get way down the menu to the flashlight, etc.
Similarly, the phone does not require your pocket knife or car keys to unlock the phone before entering an infinitely long and random phone number, while the phone is in your pocket, that you must delete one character at a time before you can use your phone - but only after you unlock the phone to get in yourself.
One must ask, if the things are not prevented, that phone locking was designed to prevent, and if I must unlock the phone to undo them, what is the point of locking the phone? Is it to piss me off?
What kind of manufacturer, what kind of engineer, would produce a product that would not at least present the option to turn off locking?
I read that the phone has a number of keyboard shortcuts. No one knows this number. I was not able to find any that were of use to me. To find any, you do not consult your manual. Please consult Ask.com, flybynite.com, or any other random place to find out stuff.
No redial. I wouldn't know if that's a thing with cell phones.
This used to bug me but I don't care anymore. Vibrators. Phones vary in what you can do to keep them from vibrating and using up juice, but in my experience, you can never simply turn it off completely. I once successfully removed the shaft with the eccentric weight from one of my phones, but that is not often recommended.
It will show you a count of unread emails and junk like that. Too bad it's inaccurate and only resets when you empty your inbox or threads or whatever completely.
If there can be such a thing as extremely or very mediocre, the camera on this pup is it. I have had a lot of different cell phones over the years, some cheaper than others, and they all had pretty great cameras. Not the case here.
All I want for Christmas is a quality cell phone that doesn't lock, has no touch screen, has a good battery, has an on/off button, a screen that glares brightly with no adjustment that you can see in any light, is the smallest and lightest phone ever made, makes calls, texts, has a clock and all the usual clock features, and has and does absolutely nothing else. And no secret shortcuts or tricks. And no vibrator.
Monday, July 6, 2020
Friday, January 19, 2018
Breakfast
Here's what went into my breakfast bowl today:
baked butternut squash
simmered wheat
simmered couscous
old fashioned rolled oats, raw
milk
cinnamon (lots)
baking cocoa
cranberries
baked butternut squash
simmered wheat
simmered couscous
old fashioned rolled oats, raw
milk
cinnamon (lots)
baking cocoa
cranberries
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Did I Mention Oil?
I pretty much stay completely away from any oil anymore, that has not been expeller-pressed. It's nice because I no longer have to remember all the fancy stuff I learn and forget about hydrogenated this, and polyunsaturated that. Together with my never consuming sugar ever again, this pretty well keeps me in the safety zone, I think.
Red Meat
For the past 20 years (don't blink - it goes quick), standard USDA beef consumption has always caused the tendons in my knees and elbows to hurt and ache. Inflammation, I think they call it.
Natural grass-fed, free-range beef, and venison have had absolutely none of this effect on me.
Now that I am 57 (it's been going on since just this year), my right hip has been really sore like my knees and elbows get when I eat USDA Red. It's pretty bad. My wife has a USDA roast in the crockpot right now. I think I shall forego tasting it, and cook me some chicken for tonight. And I hope that, unlike my mother, who became an invalid when she was 60 because her hip joints disappeared, I will be able to continue my hard labor to which I am accustomed, running up and down all these Pittsburgh hills and stairs in my house. In addition to my dietary measures, I use Melaleuca Inc.'s Replenex and Replenex Extra Strength.
I clearly recall that my mother was especially in the greatest pain whenever she ate red meat, and she became affected right about the time they started dicking with the beef, which was mid-1970s from what I am told. Her hips gave out in 1977. I could be wrong about the timing, I don't know. But I believe that in 1972, beef was still beef.
Natural grass-fed, free-range beef, and venison have had absolutely none of this effect on me.
Now that I am 57 (it's been going on since just this year), my right hip has been really sore like my knees and elbows get when I eat USDA Red. It's pretty bad. My wife has a USDA roast in the crockpot right now. I think I shall forego tasting it, and cook me some chicken for tonight. And I hope that, unlike my mother, who became an invalid when she was 60 because her hip joints disappeared, I will be able to continue my hard labor to which I am accustomed, running up and down all these Pittsburgh hills and stairs in my house. In addition to my dietary measures, I use Melaleuca Inc.'s Replenex and Replenex Extra Strength.
I clearly recall that my mother was especially in the greatest pain whenever she ate red meat, and she became affected right about the time they started dicking with the beef, which was mid-1970s from what I am told. Her hips gave out in 1977. I could be wrong about the timing, I don't know. But I believe that in 1972, beef was still beef.
BBQ
It goes against the basics of this blog but here is the bbq sauce I sometimes enjoy on any sort of pig meat, if I am missing being able to have a hot dog:
1 diced onion
1 diced garlic clove
1 Tb paprika
1 Tb Original Tabasco Sauce (McIlhenny Co.)
8 oz tomato sauce
dash or three black pepper
1/2 C dark honey (I use wildflower honey from 1980)
It goes against the basics of this blog but here is a recipe I enjoy:
black beans
canned corn
chopped cilantro OR parsley, either one, not both
fresh avacado
gourmet vinigar - just a dash
some fresh purple onion
It's a recipe, but really not too fancy. For me, anyway. You can also add some carrot, cooked or not. Or anything else you want. My wife has made something like it only a little more fancy, for years but the above recipe is what I enjoyed last night. Try lime juice instead of vinegar, if you like.
1 diced onion
1 diced garlic clove
1 Tb paprika
1 Tb Original Tabasco Sauce (McIlhenny Co.)
8 oz tomato sauce
dash or three black pepper
1/2 C dark honey (I use wildflower honey from 1980)
It goes against the basics of this blog but here is a recipe I enjoy:
black beans
canned corn
chopped cilantro OR parsley, either one, not both
fresh avacado
gourmet vinigar - just a dash
some fresh purple onion
It's a recipe, but really not too fancy. For me, anyway. You can also add some carrot, cooked or not. Or anything else you want. My wife has made something like it only a little more fancy, for years but the above recipe is what I enjoyed last night. Try lime juice instead of vinegar, if you like.
GMO Soy
Years ago, soy products in the USA generally went from non-gmo to gmo. That is, whereas up to that point, soy in all products at Harry's Grocery and at Walmart had been natural, subsequent products generally all contained genetically modified soy. As I began to consume the latter, I found myself breaking out in hives. Having definitely isolated the cause to be the gmo soy, I eliminated it from my diet and continued to enjoy natural soy wherever I could get it, hive-free. If I happened to eat the gmo again, the hives came back.
If you are not clearly familiar with hives and what they are like, I hope you will read about it and become so, without having to experience it yourself. They do not heal or stop itching in a short time.
By and by, I stopped doing soy regularly.
Last week, a hive appeared on the back of my hand. It itched constantly but I didn't pay it much mind. This week, hard-up for protein (didn't even have any beans), I searched out and consumed the last can of tuna (in oil - I always buy "in water") my son had left behind when his visit here ended. A few hours later, 12 additional hives appeared on my arms and legs.
Then I thought about it.
I had tried a little of his tuna on our camping trip last week, just prior to the first hive appearing.
The tuna was canned in gmo soybean oil.
Well, There you go.
Update: Now I estimate I have a total of at least 4,000 hives. Mostly on elbows, wrists, knees and ankles. These additional are smaller than the really large ones that first appeared. The breakout seems to have peaked and is about wound down now.
Update: Now they are on the palms of my hands and the insides of my forearms and fingers, and on the outsides of my fingers. I never had any kind of a thing on my palms before! But it still seems to be winding down, although hives, as I might have said, do not stop itching ot go away in anybody's definition of a short time.
If you are not clearly familiar with hives and what they are like, I hope you will read about it and become so, without having to experience it yourself. They do not heal or stop itching in a short time.
By and by, I stopped doing soy regularly.
Last week, a hive appeared on the back of my hand. It itched constantly but I didn't pay it much mind. This week, hard-up for protein (didn't even have any beans), I searched out and consumed the last can of tuna (in oil - I always buy "in water") my son had left behind when his visit here ended. A few hours later, 12 additional hives appeared on my arms and legs.
Then I thought about it.
I had tried a little of his tuna on our camping trip last week, just prior to the first hive appearing.
The tuna was canned in gmo soybean oil.
Well, There you go.
Update: Now I estimate I have a total of at least 4,000 hives. Mostly on elbows, wrists, knees and ankles. These additional are smaller than the really large ones that first appeared. The breakout seems to have peaked and is about wound down now.
Update: Now they are on the palms of my hands and the insides of my forearms and fingers, and on the outsides of my fingers. I never had any kind of a thing on my palms before! But it still seems to be winding down, although hives, as I might have said, do not stop itching ot go away in anybody's definition of a short time.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)