Thats why like your pc you should always back up.Originally Posted by ukgangster
Quite right there young Andy.
The point I was making about having everything in one device is that you risk losing everything should that device be lost/stolen/unrepairable. Now, as a retired DJ, I always kept the audio mixer, amplifiers and cd players as seperate units, so if one should fail, I can get a replacement in place very quickly. If however, the DJ has all of this in one unit, and the equipment decides to go belly up during a gig, everything is lost. I apply the same logic to these all-in-one communication devices.
Now moving back to the I-phones, the IT person in me says, well, as long as everything is sync'ed or backed up to external sources, the case for IPhones is quite good.
My Sony Ericsson W610i, being nearly 3 years old is capable of storing and playing music, can handle email via the IMAP protocol quite well, and has calendar functions, etc. It has a strange function where it can make phone calls as well, whats that all about
It confuses me why people want to upgrade, upgrade their phones all the time, but whatever floats yer boat.
I doubt my wife even realises but her calendar when she uses is sync to her pc via a cloud. She backs up her photos and often has twitpiced or sent off to ovi or another photo storage site. So she could lose the days snaps but that would happen if something happened to your camera digtal or film.
The music is all synced so unless a mate sents a choon to her blue tooth before she resyncs then its still there and of course if the friend sent it via email there is a back up there.
Most people would keep their mp3, camera, organiser on them so if robbed or bag lost or fell in the river well they would lose the lot anyway.
Plus the Wife simply is not going to lug round one of each, but she carries two phones her skpye phone and nokia quite often
I remeber recording CD's onto tape as i did not have a portable CD player when younger, now i just stream them via last fm and the other oneSony WalkmanI burn all my DVD's onto cassette
I have two requirements only for my mobile phone.
1 - A decent camera function, and my C905 does that impeccably.
2 - Making calls with it.
The only time I upgrade my phone is only when Sony Ericsson bring out a mobile with a better specification camera.
Anything else like e-mail, web and walk, video calling and whatever else they do, I am not interested in.
Fair enough, but I upgrade as if you have a pay monthly contract as i do most of the cost is for the phone. So would be daft not to in our case.
Due to the Wife buying Credit via text message for her calls back to phill and other countries, our provider falls over it self every year to hold on to our two contracts which both make them more than the minimum monthly rental.
She can pick and choose and get every year a even more free mins, sms etc.
Same happens on my Phone
Strangely those in phill seem to love and fully support the yearly contract upgrade
