To tell you the truth, I have a hard time deciding what to do, keep risking my life with the iPhone or go back to my older primitive cell phone, not an easy choice… Almost everyone I showed the iPhone to had the same first reaction; "It's amazing this thing still works".
Waldo, mid race, reaches for a primitive cordless phone and (while driving) dials his father.
In the 1960s, when the N.S.A. successfully intercepted the primitive car phones used by Soviet leaders driving around Moscow in their Zil limousines, there was no chance the agency would accidentally pick up Americans.
Yuppies used primitive mobile phones to broadcast their wealth, gargled with ancient clarets and drove sports cars with spoilers as broad as the steps down into their new swimming pools.
He speaks Chinese to the wait-staff here, Portuguese to his Brazilian model girlfriend, Thailis, and French to some dude with one of the most primitive Motorola phones I've ever seen.
The black-and-white display on the phone looks primitive compared with NeverLost, but the Avis Assist system can be easily moved from car to car so that customers can rent it with any car on the lot.
In those primitive days before cell phones and the Internet, the home newsroom, mercifully, had great difficulty reaching a correspondent in the field, so we were often free to report as we chose, but we also had to monitor breaking news.
Feature phones were primitive running odd Java decks and the like while smartphone users could run apps and do all sorts of PIM functions.
"The metrics that have been used for this have been astonishingly primitive," said Martin Kaplan on a phone call last week.
"They're not moving away from society to live an eco-warrior lifestyle or to live a more primitive life," he said by phone from his East London home.
