Problem Deciding !!

yeah. I sued to take documents scan em supermipose a digital sigimage and auto-fact them back.

These days they e-mail me a PDF and I do the same ;-)

I havent used one or needed to use one for over ten years .

And because you don't need or use one, you can't see why anyone else should, either?

Wha', fax machine? I use ours (Canon MX700 printer/scanner/fax) to ask for my monthly prescription.

I also needed it to reliably send a request to Wells Fargo Bank to transfer some dosh from one account to another.

Freaking Septic banks. The *only* way I could get dosh from WFB back to the UK was to write a WFB $ cheque and go down to my bank and present it for deposit. No problem - they give you a particular form to complete to go with it, and the dosh appears. Astonishing.

No, I was genuinely curious as to who still did.

Most written material is now computer generated, so sending it as an attachment is no big deal.

And because digital; signatures are so easy to forge even with faxes, there is nothing more legally acceptable about a fax. If you want real signatures you need to get a a piece of paper signed in front of a legal beagle to witness it. And sent by snail mail or equivalent.

If I ever need to complain, a fax to the MD's office (if you can find the number) seems to get attention, unlike e-mails.

Although I use this computer to send them - not a phone. ;-)

The reason I was considering a Nokia N95, E5 or X6 is because I have poor eyesight and need a phone that I can increase the font size on. Currently using a Nokia 3110 Classic, which is slowly dyeing. Volume is decreasing and trouble keeping hold of very strong cell signals. I was told the 3 mentioned would suit my needs.

Could my needs be fulfilled with anything else....?

Someone mentioned HTC.

I also use a fax machine.... Wouldn't be without it.

Jim

Sadly my E71 regularly refuses to do anything useful because it claims to have run out of memory (quite untrue, nothing extra running and there are only half a dozen texts saved). The only fix is to turn it off and on again.

From the receiving end of many mobile phone calls they *all* seem to die at regular intervals!

Oh? what colour is it turning into?

All mine have stayed the same.

Aye, though the witness can be anybody who knows you really are who you are proporting to be and has not other interest in the proceedings.

I don't know if a FAX can be considered legally binding, it's pretty easy to forge the numbers that are printed on the page(s). I'm sure if FAX was legally binding conveyancing would still be using telex to say the funds have been moved etc and yes you can hand the keys over... Telex can ask the far end for it's identity and get a response back, it's not easy to change the numbers given by that response. AFAIK the "transission report" that a FAX machine prints out only contains the numbers it has been locally told to use (it's number and/or the number it called) it doesn't contain anything that it has obtained from the far end.

I can't help being dyslexic as well !!

The telex modems that we used to use had PROMs with the answerback, a BT Puma(?) that I rescued from a skip allowed me to change it from the keyboard, once I'd figured out how to get it into config mode.

But certainly as you say, with fax, you can essentially change it at will, call by call.

Galaxy s2.

How do they compare with the "S"?

The reason for that is fairly simple. Windows Mobile runs telephony as an application hence if the OS crashes or even hiccups you lose the telephone. Symbian runs telephony as a low-level service, it's the last thing that will crash on the OS and can function even if everything else has gone belly up. It's similar to the difference in the way that Windows and MacOS handle pointing devices, Windows always feels unresponsive and generally rubbish because the mouse/trackpad etc are high level devices that have to work through all the layers of the OS.

I'd suggest having a look at the Doro range of phones. They are excellent for anyone with eyesight problems and are fairly rugged phones as well.

and I can actually read caller ID without glasses!

We bought one of their four-button emergency mobiles for a friend's mother who has real problems with mobile phones. It has been a success for her. Each button calls a specific child of hers - all the calls she ever makes and one big orange button for SOS. Now that she's prone to falling over the automatic SOS call feature has been activated. If she falls the phone calls SOS and her eldest son immediately.

A pal of mine who lives on his own has been persuaded to pay for one of those emergency systems where you carry a remote round your neck, and one press brings assistance. Allegedly. Costs 40 quid a month.

Visited him yesterday and although still quite unwell wasn't wearing the remote.

My Dad had one, he was a bit unreliable at putting it on to begin with but then he frightened himself by having a very minor incident when he wasn't wearing it...

The macthing phone/dialler can be quite sophisticated devices, like calling for help automagically if they don't hear activity for an extended period of time.