For extreme sportsmen, can your phone be as impact-proof as a tank,and be smart at the same time?

For extreme sportsmen, can your phone be as impact-proof as a tank, and be smart at the same time? I think that’s a minimum for a quality case. Some practical advice about a near-indestructible phone cover for a cyclist at http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/

Andre Jute
listening to Rostropovich's superb set of Bach's six cello suites

dance dance little sister dance...

Lesh on base

http://www.extremeoutfitters.us/1010microcase.aspx

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute
wrote:

For extreme sportsmen, can your phone be as impact-proof as a
tank, and be smart at the same time? I think that’s a minimum
for a quality case. Some practical advice about a
near-indestructible phone cover for a cyclist at
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/

Nice, but not the best case around. Try:
http://www.otterbox.com/apple-iphone-4-cases/apple-iphone-4-cases,default,sc.html
The $100 top of the line case is waterproof and almost indestructable.
It's also a pain in the posterior to assemble and even more difficult
to remove, but it does the job. The less expensive cases also work,
but have fewer protection features.

Such things are not just for the extreme sportsperson. For example,
I'm not much of a sportsman. I am a total klutz and seriously clumsy.
I can drop things without much provocation and have destroyed several
electronic toys that would probably have survived with proper
protection. Incidentally, I favor Android over iPhones, but that's
just because I'm also cheap.

Andre Jute
listening to Rostropovich's superb set of Bach's six cello suites

Now listening to the "New Age Solo Piano" channel on Pandora Radio.
For cello, I suggest anything played by Jacqueline du Pré.
http://www.littlecellist.com/page/cellist-dupre
Rostropovich was her teacher.

--
Jeff Liebermann
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Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

drop in PC sales depressing...

we envision thousands standing in knee deep water playing kill the dragon on Ifods

dance dance...

legalize oxycodone !

Per Andre Jute:
Some practical advice about a near-indestructible phone cover

This is nothing to do with impact, but I'm starting to think that
waterproof is misleading when it comes to capacitative screens.

Dip a finger in water: smear it around on the screen... On my N7000, the
screen stops reacting to touches or reacts erratically.

Has anybody been successful in using a capacitative touch device where
wet is the rule?
--
Pete Cresswell

Per (PeteCresswell):
Has anybody been successful in using a capacitative touch device where
wet is the rule?

Late-breaking news: I just found an old AquaPac bag-style case that I
had used for my candy-bar phones. The N7000 just barely fit inside it
and, under the stream from a water faucet, it worked normally.

Go figure...
--
Pete Cresswell

On Friday, April 12, 2013 3:28:28 PM UTC+1, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per (PeteCresswell):

Has anybody been successful in using a capacitative touch device where

wet is the rule?



Late-breaking news: I just found an old AquaPac bag-style case that I

had used for my candy-bar phones. The N7000 just barely fit inside it

and, under the stream from a water faucet, it worked normally.

I'm not surprised. My iPad goes to take steam with me, because I'm a Calvinist who never stops working. It is dressed up in a thick bubble-free screen protector (for when I use it in a leather folio with a Bluetooth keyboard in meetings about money), then the Griffin Survivor case which has its own screen protector (for everyday use and going on my bike), then a waterproof bag (no-name, bought from Mini-in-the-Box on sale last year), and through all this the capacitive touch works. Just as well I bought the retina screen model, because with all these layers of diffraction it is necessary to start with really crisp text or graphics... Never found a drop of water on my iPad.

I'm hoping my phone will be that fortunate. Certainly, it has to last nearly 10 years to become as cheap as the Galaxy it replaced. But then I was the last chap in the world still to use an Apple Newton for productive work (writing reviews in concerts with its super handwriting recognition, sending them up in real time to be set and the presses rolling while the other guys were still trying to find their typewriters in the jumble of their car boots). In fact, I didn't even start using a Newton a couple of years after Apple declared it obsolete...

Andre Jute

On Friday, April 12, 2013 4:22:25 AM UTC+1, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute

listening to Rostropovich's superb set of Bach's six cello suites

For cello, I suggest anything played by Jacqueline du Pré.

I was just sitting here steeling the sinews to go to the loft and move a whole stack of boxes with about 250-300 discs each to find a 6 disc box set EMI France put out many moons ago, Les Introuvables de Jacqueline du Pré. I met her occasionally back when everyone was young and heard her play often.

On 4/12/2013 10:46 AM, Andre Jute wrote:
On Friday, April 12, 2013 4:22:25 AM UTC+1, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT), Andre Jute

listening to Rostropovich's superb set of Bach's six cello suites

For cello, I suggest anything played by Jacqueline du Pré.

I was just sitting here steeling the sinews to go to the loft and move a whole stack of boxes with about 250-300 discs each to find a 6 disc box set EMI France put out many moons ago, Les Introuvables de Jacqueline du Pré. I met her occasionally back when everyone was young and heard her play often.

Just as well I didn't go to the loft and shift boxes in the middle of the night and irritate the hell out of my family. It turns out the discs from this fabulous set are already sorted into the thick books of leaves that I now use to organize my disc library, and the particular book is lying at my right hand under about three feet of unanswered correspondence... That's what I'll play next, then.

Thanks, Jeff!

Andre Jute


Close but not quite Champion Jack Dupree who is yet
available on actual 78 medium:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trks...at=0&_from=R40


A giant among men IMHO.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On 2013-04-12 15:23:06 +0000, Andre Jute said:

On Friday, April 12, 2013 3:28:28 PM UTC+1, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per (PeteCresswell):

Has anybody been successful in using a capacitative touch device where

wet is the rule?



Late-breaking news: I just found an old AquaPac bag-style case that I

had used for my candy-bar phones. The N7000 just barely fit inside it

and, under the stream from a water faucet, it worked normally.
I'm not surprised. My iPad goes to take steam with me, because I'm a
Calvinist who never stops working. It is dressed up in a thick
bubble-free screen protector (for when I use it in a leather folio with
a Bluetooth keyboard in meetings about money), then the Griffin
Survivor case which has its own screen protector (for everyday use and
going on my bike), then a waterproof bag (no-name, bought from
Mini-in-the-Box on sale last year), and through all this the capacitive
touch works. Just as well I bought the retina screen model, because
with all these layers of diffraction it is necessary to start with
really crisp text or graphics... Never found a drop of water on my iPad.

I'm hoping my phone will be that fortunate. Certainly, it has to last
nearly 10 years to become as cheap as the Galaxy it replaced. But then
I was the last chap in the world still to use an Apple Newton for
productive work (writing reviews in concerts with its super handwriting
recognition, sending them up in real time to be set and the presses
rolling while the other guys were still trying to find their
typewriters in the jumble of their car boots). In fact, I didn't even
start using a Newton a couple of years after Apple declared it
obsolete...

Andre Jute

What always surprised me is that after the introduction of a I-device
people show off about how crisp the screen is and how well
made/beautiful/thin/light the casing is the first thing they do is hide
all that in ugly screen protectors and bulky and ugly cases. WTF???


--

Lou