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The 45 year old iPhone lady watching Prison Break on the train

Started by Ewan · 7 months ago

I’m standing on the Vomit Comet from London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria. This train leaves at 2315 and is usually one of the first to attract the drunken dregs of Essex. And the odd sane and sober individual hiding from cold, hard reality with a pair of headphones and an abil ... Continue reading »

8 comments

  • msjen

    7 months ago

    Shall we all agree to drop the heinous "normob" now that a variety of folks from various slices of life are using fun feature packed mobiles?
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  • Ewan

    7 months ago

    I wonder if we could put this lady into a "pronob" category?
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  • Anthony Carroll

    7 months ago

    The second most amazing thing is that she had something sounding like reliable reception on the train!
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  • Ewan

    7 months ago

    Heh. I've used my iPhone 3G data very successfully on that line. My
    issue is that 45 minutes of iPhone joy used up half the battery.
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  • Anthony

    7 months ago

    It wasn't a dig aimed solely at the iPhone, I'm talking with bitter experience with a bunch of handsets on a bunch of networks that I've had reception issues with heading to and from London on SouthWestTrains.
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  • Where's Mike?

    7 months ago

    I've always preferred people to wear pink anoraks metaphorically! And what happened with the margarine?
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  • KevanM

    7 months ago

    I'd normally be on the 'it's all about the user' side of the fence and agree with your normob, promob types, but .....

    I think this is another iphonemob type. It's lets you do things that everything promises but doesn't really encourage your normob type.

    I've a three year old 'newmob' that uses mine for Peppa Pig! iTunes is still too much for her, but by the time she's four ...........
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  • Constantine

    7 months ago

    This is the kind of stuff that I wish my colleagues would read and learn from because I don't think they get it, I honestly don't.

    Waiting on that iPhone with a keyboard or at least a less shit camera.
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