Q- how's the note 5? Currntly have a 4 and the battery doesn't seem to last as long as it did. Thinking of upgrading but they say a note 6 is in the works

Q- how's the note 5? Currntly have a 4 and the battery doesn't seem to last as long as it did. Thinking of upgrading but they say a note 6 is in the works - HED4JC

I'm mostly happy with the 5. The battery is a sticky point for me at the moment. Battery is lousy because I'm in an area with so so reception and my job is a bunker. The battery feels about the same compared to the 4. I was driven to upgrade because of camera and reception issues. Aside from capped memory and battery, I am good. I would take this over the 4 any day of the week.


The Note 6 is probably 6 months away. The 5 was launched in late August. The S7 series was just now announced with the same battery power as the Note 5.

Thanks for your input. I'm still pretty happy with the 4. I'll probably wait for the 6

Thanks for your input. I'm still pretty happy with the 4. I'll probably wait for the 6 - HED4JC

Yeah, if you are happy with the 4, you may as well wait.

We all collect plastic sunglasses and talk about it online. Nothing more nerdy to the rest of the world than that, so don't worry on it. We're all in good company. ;-) - Oak

This guy gets it :).

Got back during races of bike in France since 2010






and this year

new scarf,Bayern Munich,Deutchland,thank you Cédric

Very nice!

Today,little oakley on dimension data pro cycling team "musette",with Cavendish

Very awsome!
I have a note 5, as qlr1 says about the battery and memory it's still a good product. I have a rather large collection of... dare I say Ray Ban. However unlike the O, I can't find a collectors website devoted to them so my main focus is on Oakley!

Would love to see your RB collection one day, Dave.

I fear the prices of B&L RBs if they ever become an organized group. There are tons of them out there and willing to pay a lot of money. I've always wanted an Antarctica Deep Freeze (the version with the bottom cheek bar) but not willing to shell out $2-3k for a NOS version.

There are collectors for everything. Who knew there were "dodo enthusiasts ", much less those that would pay over $400k for its skeleton:


http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/dodo-skeleton-sells-at-auction-for-us-430-000-1.3171404?campaign_id=A100

I can sort of see it. Maybe not dodo specific, and not 400k range, but the dodo is fairly iconic, and if you were a specimen collector, that would be a nice addition. Imagine there weren't many skeletons intact given the nature of its extinction.

That's a good point. Most would end up in museums anyways, so when a 90% complete skeleton is available, the private collectors need to be ready to bid high.

So....United Cutlery. Those who collects swords and knives will tell you that United Cutlery produces crap, and they're right. Their products, especially the blades, are typically poor quality. The saving grace of the brand is in their licensing, producing cool looking art pieces whose only function is to look good as display pieces. They have produced licensed product from Lord of the Rings, Rambo, GI Joe, The Expendables, Kit Rae, Gil Hibben, etc.

One such line I was enamoured with when I saw it some 15 years ago was Samurai 3000. The concept was simply what samurai and ninja swords would look like two millennia from now. I thought the hilt and scabbard looked so awesome. Futuristically cool.

Over the weekend, I was able to buy the ninja sword and tanto for $30. Hopefully I will find the katana version soon for as low a price and complete the collection:

Those are awesome! Great find Oak

On FleeBay for $77...

+ $45 shipping. Shipping on swords kills deals, since you can typically get them for a lower total price regionally. I'm hoping one shows up locally for less than what it costs to even ship.

Wow the handle looks similar to a light saber

+ $45 shipping. Shipping on swords kills deals, since you can typically get them for a lower total price regionally. I'm hoping one shows up locally for less than what it costs to even ship. - Oak

Ouch...

Anyone a fan of “vintage” cell phones? I bring this up here because it was discussed on this page and the previous. I’m getting back into them, and I’m constantly reminded of HOW FUN PHONES USED TO BE.

I do draw some parallels between what fans are complaining about with Oakley’s current design language and the current smart phone market. Most popular smart phones look very much the same; they’re simply slabs with a touch screen in front, whether an iPhone, Galaxy or Pixel. Not very inspired IMO (though the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and Monohm's Runcible are pretty slick).

Have a look at phones from 10-20 years back and you will see some wacky, crazy, fun designs. Things slid open, things popped open, things flipped around, screens turned around, unique shapes of all sorts were abundant, etc. Such cool unique stuff.

But other than myself and a relatively small number of avid collectors, no one really wants that shit any more. The simple, clean smart phone design and ever increasing functionality is popular and what most everyone want. Much like the current Oakley market.

Oh well.

Anyone a fan of “vintage” cell phones? I bring this up here because it was discussed on this page and the previous. I’m getting back into them, and I’m constantly reminded of HOW FUN PHONES USED TO BE.

I do draw some parallels between what fans are complaining about with Oakley’s current design language and the current smart phone market. Most popular smart phones look very much the same; they’re simply slabs with a touch screen in front, whether an iPhone, Galaxy or Pixel. Not very inspired IMO (though the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and Monohm's Runcible are pretty slick).

Have a look at phones from 10-20 years back and you will see some wacky, crazy, fun designs. Things slid open, things popped open, things flipped around, screens turned around, unique shapes of all sorts were abundant, etc. Such cool unique stuff.

But other than myself and a relatively small number of avid collectors, no one really wants that shit any more. The simple, clean smart phone design and ever increasing functionality is popular and what most everyone want. Much like the current Oakley market.

Oh well.
- Oak

I used to keep all my obsolete phones, but I recently did a purge and everything went to recycling, sadly.
- Nokia 3210 - classic
- Nokia 3310 - classic
- Nokia 8310 - very good at the time, but not as classic as the 3x10 series
- Samsung D500 - Interesting slide up design (not the first, though)
- iPhone 3Gs - classic
then it was all cheap smartphones :
- Asus zenfone 2
- Honor 8
- ...
until the Red Hydrogen One

All of them got pretty heavily abused.
So they wouldn't have been good for collection, anyway.

The only one I'll keep even after it's retired is the Red Hydrogen One.

Anyone a fan of “vintage” cell phones? I bring this up here because it was discussed on this page and the previous. I’m getting back into them, and I’m constantly reminded of HOW FUN PHONES USED TO BE.

I do draw some parallels between what fans are complaining about with Oakley’s current design language and the current smart phone market. Most popular smart phones look very much the same; they’re simply slabs with a touch screen in front, whether an iPhone, Galaxy or Pixel. Not very inspired IMO (though the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and Monohm's Runcible are pretty slick).

Have a look at phones from 10-20 years back and you will see some wacky, crazy, fun designs. Things slid open, things popped open, things flipped around, screens turned around, unique shapes of all sorts were abundant, etc. Such cool unique stuff.

But other than myself and a relatively small number of avid collectors, no one really wants that shit any more. The simple, clean smart phone design and ever increasing functionality is popular and what most everyone want. Much like the current Oakley market.

Oh well.
- Oak

Definitely loved the old designs! I remember being in love with the phones from the Matrix. Really cool. I still have some of my old ones. Couldn't get myself to get rid of them. Nokias, RAZRs, etc. I do think they're all fairly similar now. Trying to get the most useable real estate on screen in your hand. Makes sense but there isn't much cool factor there right now at least not with the physical phone itself - of course what they do now is night and day from back then but the uniqueness isn't there.

Anyone a fan of “vintage” cell phones? I bring this up here because it was discussed on this page and the previous. I’m getting back into them, and I’m constantly reminded of HOW FUN PHONES USED TO BE.

I do draw some parallels between what fans are complaining about with Oakley’s current design language and the current smart phone market. Most popular smart phones look very much the same; they’re simply slabs with a touch screen in front, whether an iPhone, Galaxy or Pixel. Not very inspired IMO (though the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and Monohm's Runcible are pretty slick).

Have a look at phones from 10-20 years back and you will see some wacky, crazy, fun designs. Things slid open, things popped open, things flipped around, screens turned around, unique shapes of all sorts were abundant, etc. Such cool unique stuff.

But other than myself and a relatively small number of avid collectors, no one really wants that shit any more. The simple, clean smart phone design and ever increasing functionality is popular and what most everyone want. Much like the current Oakley market.

Oh well.
- Oak

I still have all of my old Casio G’Zone phones. I love the design of the boulder in particular. They were all equally durable, which was their main purpose. The smartphone was slow even when it came out though.

I’ve been collecting whisk(e)y for a couple years now, slowed down when I started with oaks: