I've had it all. Atleast as far as mobile phones go (rest of my life is a whole different ball game). Over the last five years I have bought just about every type of cellphone possible. You name it, I've got it, Small ones, big ones, wide ones, coloured ones, wiith camera, with WAP, with Bluetooth, with Infrared, with interactive games, with detachable shells of 7 different colours, with an inflatable doll named Amy. Umm. Well, most of those things listed anyways.
All this time that I've been trying to be on the forefront of technological change (or the backside of a technological change, your choice, it's all the same), this has been rather tough on me. My random decision making in phones have reached a stage where my brain just freezes with the choices that it is presented with. Heck I've got a phone simply coz it had an old telephone ring tone in it. After all of this I've got a cellphone that does something incredibly unique, it just helps me make and receive phone calls. No gimmicks at all, no Bluetooth, which I haven't realised what it was for (always thought the name sounded cool though!!), no infrared port, isn't that what is used in television remotes?? (Heck I if know) No cool games, no polyphonic sounds, no cameras, nothing.
The funny part is that I'm loving it. Here is a phone that promises me nothing. No cool photos, when in reality camera photographs are grainy and dark at best, (the only picture that I ever took in a year of owning a high end camera phone was that of my dog, one picture, thats it), nor are there any promises of internet connectivity when it takes you half a life time to load a page, no video options that promises me live pictures, when all you get is a 10 second clip that takes years to download. It's a simple phone where I can make and receive calls. It has taken me five years, 8-9 phones and more money than I'd care to count to realise what I wanted.
Now if I can only resist the temptation for a Blackberry phone to check my 2 emails a day....
5 comments:
One of these famous stories (wishlists) that everyone claims never to read and always does, had the model wishing that she wanted a phone that only makes calls absolutely nothing else!!
glad to have u back on da blog! more update soon i hope?
Somehow in my experience, my phone numbers have never lived up to the jazz that my instruments bring. :-)
oh, I love gadgets..... I can never have too many!!!
I met someone exactly like that in India. He wanted to sell his Nokia 6610 for a pittance and go back to a life where there were no cellphones. He didn't succeed. Let's see how long you last.
I actually found the camera phone quite useful in Japan, where I knew about 15 Yuki's and could have their picture pop up everytime they called. Pretty cool.
Glad you're back, and like the new layout!
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