In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:
People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.
--
Roland Perry

On Oct 31, 4:45*pm, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:54:12
on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, remarked:

People would probably be better off spending money on psychiatric
sessions if they can't go 30 mins without accessing the internet.

These days people use the Internet to check things like train
timetables, and live departure boards. Or so I'm told. Will never
catch on ;-)

Can't you do that on your phone?

Oh do keep up Colin! Not on the platform at a tube station!!

But if one had a phone or other handheld device which can use wifi, then
that's exactly what one might find it handy for.

ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

In message
, at
18:10:50 on Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Mizter T remarked:
ps I can't do it on *my* phone (even up at ground level) because I don't
have an affordable data plan But I've narrowly avoided getting an
iPad, and that would be just the kind of application.

You don't want to have to whip out an iPad just to check the LDBs
though!

Plenty of people use upmarket phones for that kind of thing; and the
iPad is at the larger end of the scale, I agree.
--
Roland Perry

On 1 Nov, 09:33, Roland Perry wrote:

Plenty of people use upmarket phones for that kind of thing; and the
iPad is at the larger end of the scale, I agree.

Getting a smartphone out of your pocket and getting an iPad out of
your bag are two different things, though. I would (and do where
signal is available on the subsurface lines) use my smartphone.

Neil