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Agreed. Anyone who texts shouldn't buy this phone. However, I would say that it's not aimed at SMS'ers and as such is not executed poorly.

Strikes me to have two major markets: (1) people who only want to talk to people via phones (e.g. some of the elderly) and (2) as a fashionable item. The gold one would be a head-turner and topic of conversation.

Some people want to get rid of SMS from their way of life (or never adopted it in the first place), and hark back for simpler times. This phone appeals to that.
They've had their chance here, fancy Android phone, most frustrating experience with a phone since trying out a Samsung about three years ago (I hear they've since cleaned up their act).

Absolutely terrible battery life, most frustrating user interface I've ever seen and a very rickety touch screen, next to impossible for me to type out a message with any speed (fat fingers I guess).

I've passed it on to my s.o. who is pretty happy with it, I'm back to a very cheap nokia. Buying an Iphone is not an option because I don't want to support apple's mobile department as long as they're not going to drop their weird app-store terms.

Never even got around to getting an android devkit before moving on.
I like it, but mostly for the gimmick value. I think to be truly * usable* and simple it absolutely has to have a phonebook / speed dial of some kind.

"If you love it simple" is their tag-line, but I don't really see anything simple about having to reference a piece of paper and then dial a 13 digit number each time I want to call home.
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I would love it if it would print out the SMS on small slips of paper.

Maybe it could have a scanner, too, so that you could write SMS on paper and feed it to the phone.
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> John’s Phone is 10.5 centimetres in height, 6 centimetres in length and 1.5 centimetres in width (4.1”/2.4”/0.6”). Weight: 95 grams.

If it wasn't too big and heavy, I'd order it right now!
Thanks for trying!
This is perfect for my parents. They don't use address book, they won't read or write SMS (need to click too many buttons) and they need to use glasses to see the buttons. I'm really tempted buy 2 for them. Although it's unnecessarily expensive considering I can buy a really good and light non-brand mobile phone for £5-£10
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I can see it would have appeal for someone that would not use SMS but since the other side can't see that your mobile phone is not SMS capable you will be having a lot of confusion.
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It has some sort of speed dial (not very simple to use though I suppose you can always pre-program it for your grandparents). From the quick manual at http://www.johnsphones.com/support/johns-manual/item57 :

"You can allocate 10 speed dial numbers, each under one of the ten digits. You can allocate a telephone number (in this case, 0612345678) to a speed-dial number (in this case 1) by entering: * * 1 * 0612345678#. Subsequently, hold down the ‘1’ button for two seconds to automatically call the telephone number entered. To delete the speed-dial number in the above example, enter * * 1 * #. If you wish to alter a telephone number allocated to a speed-dial number, simply write over it with the new number."
What about free + admob? Angry Birds is free on Android, but uses Ads to support it. Being the top free game on the platform, this means they probably do a lot of money with it.
I just sent a link along to my mother, who has been wanting a no-frills big-numbered mobile phone that has a long standby time. I think it's perfect for those, like my mother, who don't use SMS, electronic address books, or any other "fancy" features of modern mobile phones. The numbers being big so that she doesn't need to take her glasses out is also very good. The only down side I can see is the review on engadget that said the switches are a bit finicky. But then again, it's not like it's $400 either :)
because they are cheap

Cheap? You can pick up a cheap pay-and-go phone here in the UK for about £25 ($50) or less :)

And it handles text messaging.

I'm not sure it is even good for old people - from the engadget review it looks very fiddly.
I've had serious problems with Eclipse's autocomplete/intellisense prediction feature. It often begins listing identifiers and then just hangs indefinitely. I don't know if the fact I'm developing using the Windows build is significant - it is Java after all so it should be platform agnostic.

I seem to have bad luck with IDE's though. I develop using Visual Studio 2008 and that has some horrendous problems, though VS was never known for stability (six service packs for VS6, anyone?)
The added value is that my mom and grandma don't have to worry about what that option is and if they should have picked it. I think the Mac App store is a much more likely place and method of getting instant updates.
The display is pager-sized.
> hark back for simpler times.

When it comes to phones I go through alternating phases of high-tech and as simple as it gets, mostly because I get frustrated at how bad high tech phones usually work as phones (they're great little computers, but I mostly use my phone to call).

SMS is no longer optional, even if you want to get rid of it, typically service messages are only sent using SMS, not voice and people will simply assume that even if you didn't respond that you still read their SMS message saying they'll be an hour late.

It's like with businesses and FAX, you may never send one but people pretty much used to assume that you were at least capable of receiving them.
Here's a small tip if you really want a download instead. If you sign up as a mac developer you can download it from developer.apple.com , though I'm not sure what the license on that is.
For a client, I recently had to evaluate a number of Rails content management systems. For their specific needs, they chose Radiant because of its large plugin ecosystem and its relative maturity.

I soon discovered that despite being the rails solution that best fit the project, it still lagged far behind wordpress and other similarly battle-hardened software. Most of the other options didn't fare better.

Unless you need interoperability with Ruby libraries, need direct access to ActiveRe* datasources, or you have a well-defined, tightly-limited use case, I'd recommend going with wordpress or something equally mature.
What's wrong with people downloading your app lots? Do you have that problem?

What do you want to track about a download? How many times it's downloaded? Just use your apache logs (or make your download link a simple webapp that records a value then redirects to the proper file url). Do you want to track email addresses of a download? If so, you should be aware that it might put of X% of customers. Are you willing to give up tracking emails if it leads to an X% increase in downloads?
Angry Birds is making $1 million a month from ads on Android. Have you tried ads?
Simplicity is a feature. "Can do more" sometimes means "can't do anything because it's too complicated".
A google search algorithm would use to make some cleaning.On the internet,the market is a free4all as well,but google search makes an order out of it.
I think you're on to something, but I think "willingness to spend" might be more accurate than "eager to spend".

I don't think it has anything to do with making a hobby out of phone use, either. Plenty of android users are eager to tweak & tinker & install & play around with their phones. They're just tight-fisted with their money, that's all.

It seems to be a bit like linux users who — spoiled by the ability to freely download and install something that will do almost anything — wouldn't think to open their wallet to pay for software, no matter how good.

Edit: iOS isn't immune to this kind of user, either. Just check out app reviews complaining about having to pay 1/5th what people would spend on coffee for an app. But the existence of tightwads isn't as bad a problem as an absence of paying customers. Android is like The Cheapskate Channel: all tightwads, all the time.
But it does not do a phone book or text messages as far as I understand, just caller ID. Or is there more than meets the eye here?

According to the specs it's just callerid / outgoing call

http://www.johnsphones.com/about/specifications/item49
Seems like an okay review to me, if the purpose in buying the phone is to get something that can make phone calls:

> So, how did it work? Well, to make and receive calls it worked fine. The ringer was suitably loud and the vibration was strong enough to get noticed in a pocket. The audio quality during calls was also decent -- not spectacular but not awful either.
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If you can find one in good condition a Nokia 8910 might be for you. Titanium casing, well built, and old enough (2002) that it doesn’t have much beyond calling and txting.
This is the first event I'm aware of labelling itself Hack and Tell outside of New York City! I'm all for it, and hope it's a success!
Which is this: .znkf anug erggro fv abpno

Which looks like a backwards sentence (. first), and it also looks like ROT13...

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> SMS has become a way of life

Not for everyone. For example, I send one text message every two or three months. I could easily live without the ability to send or receive texts.

The thing I don’t like about this phone is the silly pen-and-paper address book. Are there any phones out there that just make phone calls, and nothing else?
I'm actually in talks for a deal with an ad company. I think that's the way it's going to be
My advice is to differentiate; jqGrid and SlickGrid are two very good jQuery datagrids. If you want to compete, do something they don't do (or don't do well).

Maybe a jQuery mobile datagrid? They're far from perfect on the iPhone/iPad... Just a thought.
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I know you're joking but someone actually took out a patent on something pretty close to that:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Mobile-Phone-with-a-Built...

Wasn't there a James Bond movie where a strip of paper came out of the side of a wristwatch?
In agreement with the article, it is worth everyone knowing that Google isn't acting like a peer-reviewed source, and it has decided not to be a filter for what qualifies as academically worthy content.

As a scholar, you should know what journals are reliable and which are not. Google scholar, because it doesn't insist on peer-reviewed articles, is actually stronger because one can find the state-of-the-art papers that haven't been published anywhere yet. In that sense, it's more of a tool built for active researchers than undergrad/high school projects.
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There is no 3D yet in my opinion. What I have seen is about 3 planes of depth. Very static, not ripe for a good movie.
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"Both these switches deserve a special place in Gadget Hell for the very worst in industrial design. Not only do they require a fingernail to operate, they also don't work most of the time."

Even if the only thing you want to do with your phone is make phone calls, you still need to:

1. Turn the phone on when you want to make a call

2. Turn the phone off, or lock it, when you don't want to make any more calls
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As others have said, it's not "compleetely anonymous" if you are supplying an email address.
I still don't understand why Google haven't snapped up AppBrain and integrated with their market. It is the superior solution at the moment.
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Yes, But why is it so? Angry Birds first became very popular on iPhone and then was ported to Android. It could be that if they started on Android the outcome could have been different.
This sucks balls, and is expensive as hell. I can get something more stylish, more functional for 30 bucks.
Can you talk about this in a blog or something? This is interesting stuff.
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It has an integrated pen, like the integrated stylus on a Palm:

The back of each John’s Phone features a flap with an address book behind it. The left of the flap contains an opening with a small pen: these two unique accessories allow you to update your address file at any time, even when your phone is switched off.

http://www.johnsphones.com/about/specifications/item49
Watching TV is social, I rarely do this alone. Surfing Web is private, I rarely do this in company. So they will not come together ever. Take alcohol - wine and beer are mostly social, while cognac is mostly private. Does it seem inevitable that they will come together? Even when Google wants that badly?
>SMS is no longer optional.

False! Perhaps for your way of life, but there's the age-old 'you != everyone'. Once your friends know you don't text, they stop texting you. They may think you're a Luddite, but that's another issue.

Even though you (and me for that matter) may want SMS on phones, I don't think it was a poor design choice to skip SMS on this phone.
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But in that case (if SMS is necessary), why is this phone a good idea at all? There are good old-fashioned simple and cheap phones on the market. For example:

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Nokia_1100__Review_5583589

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1100

If it had SMS capability and a small display how would this John's phone be better than for example Nokia 1100?
There is a pen, the phony body includes a "silo" for the pen and a flap that folds out to reveal a pocket that holds the address book. Both pen and address book are included with the phone.
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If you have beginner questions use the irc channel. There are many python releated channels. You can also use the mailing lists.

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Maybe you can start the loudspeaker on a call without staring at the screen while it's dialing :-)
I noticed the same (i7-920, FF 3.6) - after removing the fixed position bar (using firebug) the site at least seems significantly less sluggish. Weird how a seemingly simple thing can hurt performance so much (or maybe it's just a psychological effect ?)

On a large screen I find it visually more pleasing than the last version but I stoppped using the site completely after they introduced that silly ajax-abuse and the new one wouldn't make me come back if for that reason alone.
It's also very expensive.

Basic Nokia phones that don't do much more than calls and SMS and that are very simple to operate and very sturdy, can be found (new) for around EUR 20.
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http://geopastebin.com/about/ might be helpful. It's designed for sharing pastes of text-based geographic formats such as GeoJSON, WKT, etc.
I'm in the same boat you are right now. I still haven't found a way out of the slump that I have fallen into. I make an absorbent amount of money doing a job that I despise but have become so comfortable with my lifestyle that I am unwilling to leave. Thanks for writing this post; I know we are all a little complacent sometimes, but you have said word for word what I am feeling. Just glad to hear others with the same issues.
> The only drawback I see is that it requires your attention, unlike say typing. But that might after all be a good thing.

I don't see how being distracting can be an advantage for an information entry system. It seems like it would just distract you from the content of the message. Care to elaborate? (I'm curious)

Edit: The other major drawback is that it limits your expression. Suppose for example that I want to write the word "Rhinocephant" (it's half rhinoceros, half elephant, and 100% imaginary). But if I want to type that with Dasher, it will be extremely difficult (because it is not in their language model). On the keyboard (or pen) the hardest part is deciding how to spell it. (Unless I'm wrong about typing imaginary words?)
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If they gave in so easily, definitely should have asked for more, although it's always hard to know what to ask for when it's your first "real" job. After that you have a baseline to help figure out what you're worth.
Or, the consequences of privacy violations will defeat the social networking user experience in 2010s, and others are going to provide a platform that enables better communication with family and friends without reverting your privacy settings every other day and retroactively opening up all your data to everyone ;-).
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5) "This offer is only available if you subscribe via this special link before 12pm on [script returning today's date]"

6) Essentially worthless "make money fast" products that are little more than product-based pyramid schemes shilling the opportunity to make money by signing up themselves to marketing the "product" to other suckers

7) Virtually anything related to casinos - especially the ones purporting to explain how to "beat" them (and amongst those, especially those providing information on how to churn casino bonuses playing blackjack that's actually accurate)
Yes, Python was going to be my counterexample - it's very easy to embed yet much bigger than 100k lines.

The 'not Schemish enough' I don't understand - unless it's a passive aggressive way of saying that anything that is not Scheme or Scheme-like is not a good language, which is a boring discussion I'm not going to go into. Well unless there is a reason that Scheme-like languages have some specific advantages that make them especially suited to being embedded, in which case I'd like to learn.

Regarding size, I don't think that's much of a problem today (leaving aside embedded or mobile dev, which I don't think we're talking about). Maybe a huge VM can cause issues in some specific circumstances, but much of the size of 'bigger' languages is going to be in the standard library anyway, in which case it's preferable for a user to have a large enough selection to work with, depending on the application domain.
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This would have worked if it was dirt cheap. If they sold it for $5 or something, then yes, i can see a use for it.

At 99 euros, they can forget it.
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using an object as a textually-indexed array,
which isn't that great

Using it as a hash table is just fine.
This article is citing a lot of out of date information (unsurprising, since its 9 months old). I suppose that the article should be taken with a grain of salt given the source anyway, but just a heads up on a few:

a)the Wired article that says 70% are still on 1.5/6 is from 9 months ago. Figures from November 2010 indicate that 75% of users are running 2.1/2.2: http://gizmodo.com/5679410/over-70-of-android-phones-are-now...

b) Google has since implemented some antipiracy measures on the app store.I'm less certain about its details/market penetration, but it exists in some form

c) android now has a lot more than 10 million handsets.
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I fail to see how this is minimalistic.
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Oh its a minor quibble. I can text without looking at the keypad but here I would have to look at the screen. I probably should take back my confusing comment about drawbacks. About your other comment, it becomes particularly easy to enter a word if a word fits the language model. But if it does not, it is not that much more difficult than picking the letters one by one.

In fact I just had to try your example out on it. It turns out 'rhinocephant' isnt a hard enough word for the default English language model at all. 'rhinoce' and 'phant' turned out to be common substrings.
> Once your friends know you don't text, they stop texting you.

I really really tried, but apparently your friends respect you better than mine do me :)

I don't mind being known as a Luddite ;)
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By collecting email addresses and verifying them, users are explicitly _not_ anonymous. If it was truly anonymous, even you wouldn't know who they are.

Anyway, it's the easiest thing in the world to create a throwaway email account, so the data still can't be trusted.
Looks good - but: the battery indicator is very unintuitive: full battery: JOHN ...... low battery: J

why is this? cant it just be "HIGH" and "LOW".
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Nice tool. Incredibly unprofessional voice-over in the demo video.
"It seems to be a bit like linux users who — spoiled by the ability to freely download and install something that will do almost anything — wouldn't think to open their wallet to pay for software, no matter how good."

I think this is not accurate. I recently purchased the 'Humble Indie Bundle 2' games package which was available for all platforms. This was offered on a 'pay what you want' basis and, after deciding how much you would pay and purchasing the games, they provided some very interesting data:

http://i.imgur.com/Cn5vX.jpg

In this case (maybe it's unusual?) Linux users were willing to (voluntarily) fork out more cash for these games than either Windows or Mac users. Perhaps it's because payment wasn't strictly necessary or something, I don't know. I suspect that Linux users, as a community, are closer to the software-development community, so when good software is made (without a bunch of insulting DRM) at a reasonable price, they're more than happy to pay for it.
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