cell phones

[beige_alert]

I have an old Motorola V120 with a tiny black-and-white screen, no camera, no nothing. I’ve been thinking of getting a new phone. My first cell phone was my brother’s old one which he gave me when he moved out of the service area of then-PrimeCo. My second was a cheap replacement for it. My third, which I got when they forced me to upgrade when their network would no longer support such old phones, was this one, which I selected basically because it was simple and cheap. This time, I’m obsessing over the choice. I’ve been looking at phones, reading endless comment threads on cell-phone-geek web sites, and just wasting hours on this. I’ve now gathered so much information that I’m not sure I really want to bother getting a new one. I actually use the thing a good bit these days, and I’ve even dropped my POTS line and now have just the mobile and Skype-out, and the new phones are all so cool-looking, but, you know, mine works fine.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

A tiny black-and-white screen is more than I've ever had or wanted on a telephone. I am sold on touch-tone over rotary, though. I get confused by the constant conglomeraton of features into various devices. I guess it won't be long before people just go to buy a "thing" that will include every high-tech gadget but the two that I actually want--the flying car and the robot maid.

I'm just so 20th century.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Apparently in South Korea the kids think of e-mail as a slow, old-fashioned, formal means of communication that you might use for business or for communicating with old people like grandparents who are still stuck in the 20th century, and use SMS and IM to communicate with each other. I still don't understand the cell-phone text message thing. Here you are tapping endlessly at ten keys to painstakingly spell out text when the device you are using has a speaker and a microphone so that you could just talk. And talking is cheaper!