We know, the holiday season is officially kaput, but if you still owe that niece or nephew a gift and you feel like teaching them tech-savvy and brand loyalty, you might want to consider one of these
KIRF walkie-talkies / organizers that let you send text messages in addition to voice calls in the same vein as that
Slide Click we saw back in the day. Trust us, typing on a small keyboard or numpad is one of the best skills they can have when they grow up -- it's
a lot more practical than the Morse code we learned back in our day. The lone exception here is the feature-less RAZR knockoff that does voice-only -- hey, it's only fitting that the one phone here that doesn't knock off a smartphone have less features.
[Thanks, James]
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posted Dec 30th 2008 3:19AM
when I was a kid we took pride learning morse code and tapping out messages to each other with our 9 volt battery powered walkie-talkies, Kids today are just lazy
This isn't that bad.. i mean they make bubble gum cellphones that look like Nokia's...doesn't make it a KIRF product
MIGHT be useful in the way of teaching muti-tap input to someone... except for the fact that the keypad on these horrid knock-offs don't conform to the rest of the world's standards... instead I imagine these over glorified paper weights will cause your "niece or nephew" to officially declare you their least favorite aunt/uncle since you bought a cheap piece of carp instead of a nice iTunes gift card.