Decius wrote: When it was announced that the Nexus S would have a built-in NFC radio, I immediately started thinking about the potential of using cell phones with RFID public transit fare systems. The day the Gingerbread source code was released, I picked up a Nexus S and began working on a proof-of-concept application that can read data from transit cards. Though a vacation got in the way, today I’m happy to announce FareBot!
Neat! Man I wish I new about that RFID reader before I bought my new phone last month!
Yeah, well lemme tell you what, buddy! I have this handy-dandy motorola slimline cellphone. I have know idea what the model number of the thing is but it has CINGULAR wriiten on it, if that gives you adequate insight as to its vintage. It is a pain in the ass to text on. I can't send an email with it. Shit! It barely gives me the weather. I can only look up the news on the homepage because Google News and Yahoo both tell me to screw off when I try to access their urls. Forget watching shit on youtube, or taking a picture. I mean, it has a camera, but that thing only creates abstract art outta what I hoped would merely be pictures of girls' asses at the mall, or various car crashes I drive past. It has no tiny keyboard or that little pen which eliminated the need to remember all that "home row," QWERTY bullshit that I hate having to store in my mind like oh-so-many Timex Sinclair 1000 audio cassettes that my dad still keeps in the attic. (I wonder, do Blackberry users have access to Alice in Wonderland's shrinking drink to type on that damned infuriating "advancement?") No, my phone doesn't do any of that shit. It calls people. It also enables people to call me. Until Lockheed Martin designs a really smart phone that is capable of shooting people with a lazer or something. Until they put out a phone with a button that would cause the person on the other end of the line to fall over dead, worms exploding out of their head like Scanners or Halloween 3, I will keep this antiquated phone. And I will use it as...well...a...uh...phone. |
