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Re: Time and cel nav, a stupid question
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2008 Apr 23, 11:21 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2008 Apr 23, 11:21 -0400
Frank, How does that reconcile with my wife's AT&T phone being identical in time to mine? I don't think either have been set, other than to adjust time zone in mine. Can you set the time in your new phone? Maybe Lu could gather a few colleagues with AT&T phones and see if they're the exact same time (to within a second or so) by observing when the minutes change. If so, more precise experimentation might be interesting, such as a video of 3-6 phones changing minutes. I have visions of Frank walking down the street in Chicago buried in the internet when he bumps into somebody. Frank: "Oops, pardon me." Other guy, real big and mean: "What are you doing? Watch where you're going. You shouldn't be walking while playing with your phone. Let me see that thing!" Bye-bye phone. Fred On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:08 AM, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > The way I see it, very accurate cell phone time had little value to > most > users. The ability to adjust the time and maintain control over > zone changes > is more in line with the way most people have used watches > traditionally. > I'm sure we all know someone who sets a watch ahead five minutes so > that > they've "never late". On the other hand, how many people need to > know the > time to better than the nearest minute? Navigators... Ebay bidders > maybe... > not many other people. So the highly accurate time that became an > accidental > feature of cell phone service (at least with some providers) a few > years ago > has been lost to evolution. But believe me, I wouldn't trade my new > phone's > features for anything. How could I ever live without broadband > Internet > while walking down a street, or sitting at the beach, or having > dinner in a > restaurant? ;-) > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---