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June 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM #19879June 15, 2012 at 11:25 AM #745829spdrunParticipant
16G works for me, but I’m not a digital packrat, at least not on mobile devices.
I’d seriously consider an Android device — they’ve got a lot better over the past year, without the asinine restrictions that Apple cripples their phones with.
June 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM #745832CoronitaParticipanttrader. How can you do this to me? Get an android phone.
16gb is fine. He’ll probably end up storing most stuff in the clouds anyway.
June 15, 2012 at 11:48 AM #745833spdrunParticipantStoring in the cloud makes sense for music and other stuff that’s been published, but he should be taught from a young age that personal info stays personal. And slapped down hard if it doesn’t.
Cloud for personal info = privacy theft. Once it’s out there, it’s not easily removed.
This being said, I use basically no cloud services other than e-mail (buy CDs or download my music directly), and 16GB on a smartphone is plenty for me.
June 15, 2012 at 12:40 PM #745835sdrealtorParticipant[quote=flu]trader. How can you do this to me? Get an android phone.
16gb is fine. He’ll probably end up storing most stuff in the clouds anyway.[/quote]
Sorry call me benedict realtor but the iPhone is the coolest by a million times according to my son.
Its like sending Hydrox cookies in your kids lunchbox and telling him they are the same as Oreos.
June 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM #745837spdrunParticipantIf personality cults are cool, then YIPPEE!
June 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM #745840no_such_realityParticipantThe answer is simple.
If you are a tinkerer, love rebuilding and reloading your operating system, don’t mind hackerish interfaces and command line level on your PC or Mac, then Android.
If you want something that simply works, iPhone.
Either will come with Mama phone company’s restrictions until you strip them, so unless you’re going to go and strip them or have an known Android app you want, K.I.S.S.
And Apple did K.I.S.S. very well with the iPhone.
Now, go by an iPhone, because I own stock.
June 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM #745843spdrunParticipantIf the kid likes to tinker at all, encourage it and get him an Android device. It will do him good in future to cultivate his tinkering.
June 15, 2012 at 2:36 PM #745845CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Storing in the cloud makes sense for music and other stuff that’s been published, but he should be taught from a young age that personal info stays personal. And slapped down hard if it doesn’t.
Cloud for personal info = privacy theft. Once it’s out there, it’s not easily removed.
This being said, I use basically no cloud services other than e-mail (buy CDs or download my music directly), and 16GB on a smartphone is plenty for me.[/quote]
spdrun, you don’t need to lecture me on security. You can search my comments about that here too (afterall, I am a paranoid person).
Cloud service for pictures is not nearly as an issue as sending PII over email which can remain on mail servers and in between hops. And yet people still send sensitive data via email.
And I use to be one who had all my finance data on a computer that had absolutely no internet connection. I’m not nearly as backassward these days because chances are institutions do a much lousier job safeguarding your PII than you do. But that being said, do a search for credit freeze. That helps out.
You get bonus points though in my book for liking supporting android though.
June 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM #745846CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]If the kid likes to tinker at all, encourage it and get him an Android device. It will do him good in future to cultivate his tinkering.[/quote]
Dude, you’re sounding cooler by the minute.
June 15, 2012 at 5:03 PM #745853CDMA ENGParticipantI would suggest that you wait…
The iPhone 5 is rumored to be close to release.
Then he will have the coolest…
CE
June 15, 2012 at 5:48 PM #745854CoronitaParticipantsdrealtor… You know. screw the iphone5…
I’d say go retro and get a piece of history.
Only costs Three hundred seventy five thousand.
Apple I auctions for $375k
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/15/technology/apple-i-auction/index.htm?source=cnn_binPssss sdrealtor. I still have my Apple IIe.. It’s fully working with three 5.25″ floppy drive…a whopping 128KB ram, 80 column text card, and ImageWriter I printer….
I’m not greedy. Only asking for half of what was sold at Sotheby’s.
I got the Mac SE/30 that is working too, if you’re interested in that too…
The way I look at it… Anyone can get an iPhone 1,2,3,4,5…But how many peoplare really going to have a piece of and Apple IIe or the original Macs in the the fishtank box?
Hey, maybe I can get cynaogen mod/Android to run on the SE/30…Just need a bigger harddrive…Damnit, I need to find a scsi drive.
June 15, 2012 at 7:29 PM #745859sdrealtorParticipantHe didnt want to wait and didnt care about the iPhone5. Mistake in my book and I’m waiting. But thats what he wants and he busted his butt in school and deserves to be rewarded. He now has his iPhone. Congrations sdr.jr
June 15, 2012 at 7:50 PM #745865CDMA ENGParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]He didnt want to wait and didnt care about the iPhone5. Mistake in my book and I’m waiting. But thats what he wants and he busted his butt in school and deserves to be rewarded. He now has his iPhone. Congrations sdr.jr[/quote]
But LTE is Sooooooo Coooolllll…
CE
June 15, 2012 at 8:01 PM #745866patbParticipantget him a case too, or it’s going to break
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