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I would imagine the batteries did not appreciate that much inactivity. Surely at least some of them will be unusable since l-ion batteries like to exercise? I was leery of procuring a new Series 0 in November 2016 for that reason, but so far, so good, although the battery is much newer than the ones in these phones.

I'm editor of a weekly newspaper and have a Nikon Coolpix B500 as work camera. It does great in good lighting, shoots quickly, and has 40x optical zoom. In poor lighting, it's a disaster. I was taking pics of Christmas parade last year and realized it was hopeless, and used 5S to shoot rest of parade. They pics were usable but not stellar. Bought a X and had high hopes. The camera features are fairly astounding, including the optical zoom, but it seems that action shots in poor lighting aren't great; doesn't seem to freeze the action even with flash, and the flash makes things look weird sometimes. I have yet to test it under many conditions, but it has managed to impress and disappoint at the same time. Mayhap I expected more of a leap after advancing five models up the product line.

lkrupp said:

spice-boy said:

How bout making Siri work properly. 

Last night in my home office. “Alexa, turn off the porch light.” (Echo lights flickering, ten seconds go by) “I’m sorry, the porch light is not responding.” “Hey Siri, turn off the porch light.” Light goes out. “Okay.” So you can keep your false narrative about Echo being the be-all end-all perfect digital assistant and how Siri sucks.

I would never purchase an Echo, but I was watching classic boxing and asked Siri, "When did Mike Tyson fight Dominic Boyd.” It answered, "The Seahawks and the Bengals game was on October 11, 2015 at noon." I corrected my question and asked, "When did Mike Tyson fight Lorenzo Boyd.” It answered, "Which team?" and offered me Andorra World Cup Qualifiers or DSL Astros Blue.

I don't believe there is a perfect digital assistant, but I'd like one that didn't make me laugh or curse before opening Safari to googlerize my question.

bb-15 said:

1. No one is forcing anyone to buy any phone.

O, I dunno. I am feeling an insane compulsion to make the leap from 5S to X!

I've had a couple of jokes intended for staff end up in newsprint during my 24 years in the business. I learned to thoroughly, insanely quarantine such items to prevent them from hitting press. I've seen items in major newspapers such as "cutline here cutline here cutline here" and "First line of deck; second line of deck; plus one more."