"Prometheus" wrote in message
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Mobilephones (Proud owner of a Nokia 3310.)
Depends if you NEED more than speech.

Hmm... I don't know that we NEED much of any modern technology... but I'm
certainly willing to pay for it! (And it is interesting how the Internet
has gone from being 'a cool toy' to something many would argue is NEEDed for
'modern jobs' in under a decade... I wonder how long telephones took to
reach the same level of 'NEED'?)

My analogue quarts is more rugged and accurate but I do have to change the
battery every three years so I do have some sympathy for a mechanical
automatic.

Casio has some nice 10 year (battery life) models, although they're plastic
so generally the case will die years before the battery...

There are also solar powered and kinetically powered quartz (electric)
watches out there...

I take an engineering approach and select equipment to be effective rather
than simply rejecting anything that is not traditional (otherwise you
would have to reject all phones and use runners).

I thought it was smoke signals? :-)