Trefor Patten said:I know accidents will happen but, call me old fashioned, can't you just take care of things that you own? I collect modern glass and most of it would be ruined if I dropped it from waist height, so I take care to ensure that I don't. As that flamin' meerkat would say 'simples'.
Trefor Patten said:I know accidents will happen but, call me old fashioned, can't you just take care of things that you own? I collect modern glass and most of it would be ruined if I dropped it from waist height, so I take care to ensure that I don't.
Trefor Patten said:I know accidents will happen but, call me old fashioned, can't you just take care of things that you own? I collect modern glass and most of it would be ruined if I dropped it from waist height, so I take care to ensure that I don't.
snivilisationism said:I avoid issues like that by going for function over form.
Paul Hobbs said:snivilisationism said:I avoid issues like that by going for function over form.
On any item that a person interacts with as closely as a phone, form and function are the same thing.
Paul Hobbs said:Not really suprising that the plastic thing faired better than the glass thing really is it
Indeed. I’m at an age where I get annoyed when I’m waiting to pick up my primary-school kids at home-time and I overhear a whiny mother complaining that their nine year old kid has broken his ‘4S just three weeks after she bought it, and so she’s going to have to buy another for him. Firstly what the **** is a 9 year old doing with a £400+ phone in the first place, irrespective of whether you have pockets deep enough to buy it, and secondly, how is so casually replacing it with another teaching him to value and respect anything when stuff comes so easy?Trefor Patten said:You are absolutely right Professorhat. I am just of an age where I get a bit impatient with whiny people who complain that £400 worth of phone/camera/binoculars etc 'broke' when they dropped it. If things are precious, take care of them.
MajorFubar said:Indeed. I’m at an age where I get annoyed when I’m waiting to pick up my primary-school kids at home-time and I overhear a whiny mother complaining that their nine year old kid has broken his ‘4S just three weeks after she bought it, and so she’s going to have to buy another for him. Firstly what the **** is a 9 year old doing with a £400+ phone in the first place, irrespective of whether you have pockets deep enough to buy it, and secondly, how is so casually replacing it with another teaching him to value and respect anything when stuff comes so easy?Trefor Patten said:You are absolutely right Professorhat. I am just of an age where I get a bit impatient with whiny people who complain that £400 worth of phone/camera/binoculars etc 'broke' when they dropped it. If things are precious, take care of them.
Paul Hobbs said:snivilisationism said:I avoid issues like that by going for function over form.
On any item that a person interacts with as closely as a phone, form and function are the same thing.
More fool him. Nor is he doing them any favours re. teaching them about the value of things. In fact give it ten years and they'll probably be amongst that generation's young rioters, putting shop windows in because the social doesn't give them enough money to buy an iPhone 15. Ok bit of an extreme stereotypified conclusion, but such trees from little acorns do grow.The_Lhc said:Yeah, I sit next to a bloke at work who regularly has that conversation on the phone with his kids, at least 4 or 5 times a year, be it phones, mp3 players, PS3s, etc etc and he just keeps replacing them! Either he has the clumsiest kids in the world or they do it deliberately to wind him up. I'm leaning towards the latter...
snivilisationism said:Paul Hobbs said:snivilisationism said:I avoid issues like that by going for function over form.
On any item that a person interacts with as closely as a phone, form and function are the same thing.
I include durability in the word "function". I have dropped many phones, and never had more than a case popping apart. I wouldn't touch a phone with a glass screen however good it looked
Paul Hobbs said:snivilisationism said:Paul Hobbs said:snivilisationism said:I avoid issues like that by going for function over form.
On any item that a person interacts with as closely as a phone, form and function are the same thing.
I include durability in the word "function". I have dropped many phones, and never had more than a case popping apart. I wouldn't touch a phone with a glass screen however good it looked
Since the screens are created from the same material, it is the form of the Samsung that defends its screen from gravity. Is it not the form of an Airplane window that gives it its strength? (as opposed to a square design) Form is not just about how good something looks.
The S2 is technologically speaking superior to the iPhone, but from a design standpoint it is not a nice. It feels flimsy by comparison, but the thing that bugs me the most, a 95th percentile hand cannot reach all four corners with their thumb without stretching uncomfortably, forcing two handed use. That is a much bigger compromise in my opinion than the iPhones exposed glass edges. Wouldn't make a very good hit-whoring youtube video though would it? (Most iAnything destruction on youtube results in a profit to youtube affiliates, usually)
If you hadn't guessed, the old adage "form follows function" irks me