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[challenge entry] The iPhone killer


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(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:41, archived)
# arf!
but what about ion storms?
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:45, archived)
# Under clause 31.2.58365a
They're not covered by the warranty
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:46, archived)
# I don't iron,
whether it's during a storm or not.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:47, archived)
# if it's raining irons the last thing you want to worry about is phonecalls
:)
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:55, archived)
# I find it mildly surprising
that I have never yet heard the patent Star Trek chirruping sound or hailing whistle on anybody's mobile phone, especially given the amount of train travel I undertake
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:45, archived)
# You would
had you sat next to me in the last few years...
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:46, archived)
# Yeah
I made one a few years back, based on "Star Trek: Enterprise"
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:47, archived)
# haha
you have not heard the tones and alerts on my XDA then.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:49, archived)
# I went to college
...with a guy who wore a Next Generation style communicator. Every day. And used to tap it and speak.

He didn't really have many friends.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:52, archived)
# I bet he had loads
and he would talk to them all the time

in the cellar
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:54, archived)
# I should have clarified
He was a complete party monster, and forever in demand... it's just tragic that he was stranded from that particular dimension
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:57, archived)
# don't you just hate those space/time anomalies
:)
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:58, archived)
# It puts the lotion in the basket...
they are a special breed...
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:08, archived)
# O_O
oh god, they could "prosper" at any moment
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:09, archived)
# Gawd I hope not,
seems unlikely frankly....
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:11, archived)
# I think there will be a lot of Welsh people in the new Star Trek.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:10, archived)
# My auntie was once an extra.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:14, archived)
# No comment...
:s
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:20, archived)
# I know.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:31, archived)
# God, I can imagine!
Did anyone ever contact him on his communicator though? That would be even more worrying....
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:54, archived)
# Haha
Such ideas you now give me..
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:55, archived)
#
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:08, archived)
# That's quite cool.
Although I believe there are destructions floating around the interwebs on how to rebuild a toy Communicator with a BlueTooth headset inside :)
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:46, archived)
# hahaha
'however implausible your location'
inspired!
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:51, archived)
# hahaha
splendid.

i had a set of blueprints and circuit diagrams to build a working one of these.

however the range wasn't that good.

[edit]also is that the 'D' revision model?
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:04, archived)
# I have no idea
It's the most suitable one Google would give me... although from memory it was a replica. Which doesn't really help, as I have no idea which model it was a replica of.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:19, archived)
# i was being geeky
1701-D was the ship number for the enterprise.
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:22, archived)
# Bows down
to thy geekiness.
(, Fri 21 Mar 2008, 3:22, archived)
# stick an LCARS theme on it
and you've got a deal...
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:23, archived)
# You mean...
...like this?


(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:37, archived)
# I admit to having used that on my
7650's back in the day
(, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 23:44, archived)
# That seems unlikely...
...I created it less than three months ago.
(, Fri 21 Mar 2008, 0:00, archived)
# I don't mean that picture.
I mean the Lcars theme for Symbians, or will you claim to have invented that?

Edit:// And as I recall I used to have it on my Palm OS handspring PDA probably 7-8 years ago.
(, Fri 21 Mar 2008, 0:16, archived)
# Misunderstanding....
I thought you were referring to my image, not the Symbian Theme itself. My bad, Sorry.
(, Fri 21 Mar 2008, 0:39, archived)