Comments on: Return it!

By: Nicholas Powiull

Nicholas Powiull — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:19:50 +0000

Things were designed for this exact purpose by the people in power who want to mold us into consumers that buy buy buy. For more information, I encourage you to watch this video: “The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard” ( http://www.storyofstuff.com/ )

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:11:58 +0000

@Diana – If it works well for you I’m very happy for you. For me the difficulty of trying to connect the phone to the device and then the device to the radio would have kept me from using it. If those thing happen automatically then it would probably work well. Just out of curiosity if you are listening to your stereo and a call comes in do you just switch to the particular station to hear the caller?

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:45:36 +0000

I have the BlackJack II & love the fact that it’s an organizer & phone in one. I no longer need to carry more than one device, I just pick up my phone and go. Sure, there are items on the phone I don’t use, but until they make a phone that is customizable (like a Dell computer), I’ll stick with it.

I have a friend with the FM connection to her phone & really don’t like it at all. Any time she needs to answer the phone, everyone can hear the entire conversation.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:31:47 +0000

I have to say I totally disagree with you. I have a simular blue tooth device and I love it. It is simple to use and I live in CA where you are required by law to use a blue tooth device while driving your car. To me, it is so much better than to have the Star Trek looking device attached to your head.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:00:30 +0000

@Bill – My cell phone does not have a camera. I think companies put too much effort into building great hardware and not enough on making the software easy to use. The two exceptions I’ve seen are Blackberries and iPhones. Those seem to be well designed and the way you use them more or less makes sense.

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:05:16 +0000

As Sigmund Freud COULD have said:

Sometimes a phone is just a phone.

For me cellphones because ridiculously overcomplicated when they came with compulsory built-in cameras.