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@Eternal: Wasn't there a PS2 game with a microphone where you have to give orders to the character without controlling them directly?

@Lord_Data ∞: This is still punitive: it's a restriction of someone's freedom. It could also be used to, for instance, enforce a punitive curfew.

@XanderCrews: They're not exactly being discarded; it can be great for rehabilitation especially. The ankle monitors can be used to enforce participation in rehabilitation meetings, enforce presence in a workplace or a school...

@8oardR1der: Give 'em enough time, and people will manage to feel entitled to ANYTHING!

They should drop the Daily and the Touch, and focus on making a Pocket with less bezel, and price it at 100$ or less.

Next up: How to duct tape a duster to a drill bit for AWESOME POWER-DUSTING ACTION.

Sports Tracker by Sports Tracker Technologies for Nokia smartphones, which is a spin-off of Nokia Sports Tracker. It does pretty much everything the Endomondo tracker does, but also interfaces with a compatible Polar bluetooth heart-rate monitor and relates the info it captures to heart-rate.

@PierceTheVin: Well, every smartphone owner in my household has Symbian. Every cellphone in my household is a smartphone. There's one cellphone in my household (mine) and I live with three luddites.

@ThePriceofEggsinMalta: Large capacitive touchscreens and fancy little animations when you push on things are like AC on a car. If your first car had it, you're not ever going to want to get a car without it, but if you're used to driving cars without AC, you'll be much more willing to consider cars without it.

@B.Rose: That's... Just...

@PierceTheVin: Of course, but how relevant would it be? The bigger market is more important than the smaller one.

@T-reG: Unless you change the definition of a smartphone OS specifically NOT to include Symbian (and that would exclude Blackberry OS as well), there's no reason to consider Symbian devices as anything less than smartphones.

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: Well, strangely enough, I have no problems browsing on my N86 for hours (same browser as on the E73). The latest Opera Mobile version makes for much smoother browsing than Nokia's default browser.

@Hearthatvoiceagain: Unless you change the definition of smartphone to not include Symbian (which would also drop Blackberry as well out of the definition), these are definitely NOT dumbphones.

@Omnimon: Urgh, I can certainly see that as being more detrimental to catharsis than community building.

Shackles are the new freedom!

@techynottreky: Oh, I totally agree that it's disingenuous to demonize success. Historically, encouraging success and wealth is how successful societies became successful, demonizing it is how they declined. For instance: the Roman Empire. Practically made a cult of their heroes and rulers. Then came Christianity,…

@Stem_Sell: "It appears you are trying to write a check. Do you want me to fill in the details?"