It's time for Microsoft to give up on Windows Phone and switch to....

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  1. Posts : 463
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    I purchased my smartphone because it quite consolidated my life.. Don't need to carry paper to write on,I use word. Don't need a large calendar I use the one on my phone. And the best part is it syncs with all my computers, even at work. Remind for appointments, alarm clock, and the list goes on. All right here. If people are walking distracted into traffic, that is their own issue. But eating from to go container would have the same result. It is up to the person to watch where they're going. I myself purchased the mid range model because of the expense
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  2. Posts : 7,128
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       #21

    aelaan said:
    Phone: A device to CALL someone and receive CALLs on. Smartphone - some high powered piece of intolerable fragile technology owned by "technolustians" and "techhornies" convincing others they must spend upwards of 1000 dollars to exactly do what everyone else does: getting neck cramps, sloughing, walking into each other, or just oddly enough walk into traffic and get run over by a distracted driver who also was texting.... ironic world isn't it?
    It would be even more ironic if they walked into the path of the person they were texting.
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       #22

    DustSailor said:
    I purchased my smartphone because it quite consolidated my life.. Don't need to carry paper to write on,I use word. Don't need a large calendar I use the one on my phone. And the best part is it syncs with all my computers, even at work. Remind for appointments, alarm clock, and the list goes on. All right here. If people are walking distracted into traffic, that is their own issue. But eating from to go container would have the same result. It is up to the person to watch where they're going. I myself purchased the mid range model because of the expense
    I'm very pleased with my Lumia 640XL. I originally bought it to test Windows 10 Mobile. After upgrading it from Windows 8 I was hooked on it. I will only go back to Android if I have no choice when I replace my 640XL. My old Galaxy III is a nice phone(I still have it) but I prefer my 640XL. :)
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       #23

    Winuser said:
    It would be even more ironic if they walked into the path of the person they were texting.
    Couldn't have put it better myself! Stopped at a traffic light and fortunately in a full size 4x4 pickup truck at the time when some kid comes flying around the corner too busy yapping on the cell to watch how close she was! Could have been DOA on the spot if hit head on! The late teen early 20s driver was in a small compact that would have crushed up like a sardine can!

    I see this too often with people too busy with hand helds to watch just where they are driving. Then you see jay walkers straying out at night wearing dark clothes you almost side swipe instead of walking on the regular sidewalks and crossing at intersections. Want to be hits!
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  5. Posts : 7,128
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       #24

    Night Hawk said:
    Then you see jay walkers straying out at night wearing dark clothes you almost side swipe instead of walking on the regular sidewalks and crossing at intersections. Want to be hits!
    I will never understand why people do that. Another one I don't understand is people riding bicycles on the wrong side of the road.
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  6. Posts : 11,247
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       #25

    Winuser said:
    I will never understand why people do that. Another one I don't understand is people riding bicycles on the wrong side of the road.
    Hi there

    Actually not so silly -- especially with Walking too -- although having spent some time in Los Angeles in the past I don't suppose people there have even HEARD of an activity known as "walking" -- it's safer to FACE the oncoming traffic.

    Obviously doesn't apply to Freeways etc but on a large number of Rural roads this is probably the safest option where dedicated cycle ways and footpaths don't exist.

    What should be banned are those idiots using Mobile phones whether driving or cycling and those pedestrians who don't even look away from their phones when crossing a busy street.

    Ah well I suppose NYC wouldn't notice if its population were decreased by a few !!!

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  7. Posts : 3,367
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       #26

    Well the problem is I see ignorant types not paying attention to anything at times either walking right out in front of you or running out suddenly from the far side of a parked vehicle as well as stragglers too busy on their phones to pay attention. And that is on the quieter streets where you do have a regular sidewalk on both sides and they still are out in the street!

    You don't have to be in a major metropolitan to see idiocy at the peak at times. Even in the winter a couple of years back I came right up close to sideswiping one jaywalker when the clothing blended in with the snow covered ground and in gap between the intersection that was well lit and the dark S turn on the upclimb of a small. That will give you a good start at times! But if they get hit guess who's fault it will be seen as?! You got that figured out! And that was someone without a phone simply walking in the wrong place! Just imagine someone who was yapping on a cell!
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  8. Posts : 3,257
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       #27

    Winuser said:
    I will never understand why people do that. Another one I don't understand is people riding bicycles on the wrong side of the road.
    So you can see the traffic that is passing you. If you ride your bike on the "correct" side, you don't know about vehicles until they are right on top of you. What's more, there are always jerks that want to throw stuff at you while they drive past, and if you are going against the traffic, you can see them trying to do that and avoid it.
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  9. Posts : 7,128
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       #28

    Mystere said:
    So you can see the traffic that is passing you. If you ride your bike on the "correct" side, you don't know about vehicles until they are right on top of you. What's more, there are always jerks that want to throw stuff at you while they drive past, and if you are going against the traffic, you can see them trying to do that and avoid it.
    Where I live it is against the law to ride your bike on the wrong side of the road. Bikes are supposed to follow most of the rules as motor vehicles. I would like to know how safe it is when a bicycle runs into the side of a car at a intersection because the cyclist was going against traffic and the driver didn't see them.
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