Re: Colnago C60

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:38:50 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 1/7/2025 3:04 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Thu Aug 22 20:02:16 2024 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

On 8/22/2024 5:09 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

... Europe is generally more mobile phone focused.

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Yes, I think that's always been so. Europe is far more compact than the
U.S., and with much more typical population density.
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To tell another anti-AT&T tale: The first time we went to continental
Europe, we (or rather, my wife) had a flip phone through AT&T. I called
AT&T support to ask whether the phone would function in Europe. The tech
support guy I got told me it absolutely would, no problem at all.
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Of course when we landed, we found the phone was useful only as a
paperweight. IIRC, the phone wasn't even capable of dealing with the
frequencies that Europe used. And when I took it into a cell phone store
of some kind, asking if something could be done to make it work, the
tech guy there said "We've never even seen a phone like this one!"
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Ah well. We got by for six weeks anyway, mostly by using internet cafes.

 
 
 
 
This has been largely changed since everyone's phones are now made in China.

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Mine was made on Western Avenue in Chicago:
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http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/princess.jpg

I'll bet you can't record notes on it while out on a ride without
taking your hands off the handlebars or looking away from where you're
riding.  That's a function I use quite often.

"Hey Siri, take a note"

My phone contains my entire contact list with phone numbers and
addresses, my calendar with scheduled appointments and events. In
addition to GPS, it can give me news, weather reports, tide schedules,
and play my music. I can make and receive phone calls, and it can read
to me any text messages I receive. With my bone conduction headset, I
do all that 100% with voice control without laying a finger or an
eyeball on the phone. It also allows for my wife, who worries about me
while out on a ride to see exactly where I am and whether I'm moving
or stopped on her phone or her Ipad. If I'm stopped too long, I'll
sometimes get a "R U OK?" text.

I don't ordinarily need any navigation help on the bike, but in the
car or truck, I just verbally tell the phone where I want to go and it
displays the route on the vehicle's screen, the phone's screen and it
can give me audible directions. Our phones easily hook up to rental
car's systems, too.

I can access the cameras on my front and back doors and in my garage
on my phone from anywhere I can get phone or WIFI service, including
out on a bike ride. I could access them when I was 1000+ miles away in
Wisconsin, Ohio, and Colorado.

This is just a fraction of the functions I use my phone and, other
than here on RBT Usenet with a laptop, I do not access social media
garbage.

My next door neighbors create their grocery list and then have their
groceries delivered, all by voice control. Their front door camera
announces and display it's arrival.

--
C'est bon
Soloman