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Subject: [Leica] The Wait
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:07:20 -0400

It would seem you'd need noise cancelling headphones to plug into your
iPhone to have a decent phone conversation.


On 5/3/15 3:18 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> It is a big change.When I first started traveling to Formula 1 races as a 
> team
> member in 1976 we never used a telephone, none were available anywhere near
> the garage (probably just in the press office) and anyway the prices of a
> phone call were budget bustingly high.By the time I stopped at the end of 
> the
> 2009 season the chief mechanic may well phone the team manager several 
> times
> per day even when they were only 100 yards apart, incurring two 
> international
> phone charges. Just as well the income became so much more.My iPhone is no
> better, in fact probably worse, as a phone than the original one, but my 
> what
> a lot of other things it can do (though I would rather it was still the 
> better
> phone).
The mobile phone has completely changed personal interaction hasn't
> it? Any photograph in town will have several people in it referring to a
> miniature screen just in front of their face. Something I would never have
> expected.
Frank D

 


     On Sunday, 3 May 2015, 1:49, Lluis Ripoll
> <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
   
 

 Thank you Jim!

When I watch
> a ?old? film and the persons needed to find a public phone? or they are 
> asking
> for a long distance call? now this made me smile?

Cheers
Lluis


El
> 02/05/2015, a les 21.53, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
> escriure:

>
> Nice one!? Now, what did we do before we had smart phones?????
> 
> Jim
> Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 5/2/2015 2:47 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Miscellaneous/20150502_L1004513.jpg.h
> tml>
>> Leica MM, Summilux 35 pre
>> 
>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are
> welcome
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
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