New Mobile Phone
For a person who's supposed to be a geek, I haven't been very technologically savvy with my mobile phone. I bought one several years ago that managed to be a Motorola but without the Motorola software. It was therefore very good. It was a simple touchscreen phone and I adored it because it worked fantastically as a phone, it was small and light, it had good battery life and because I could type out properly punctuated text messages on a mini-Qwerty keyboard. My only regret about it was that it couldn't do internet/email (although, I always thought it could, just that 3 wouldn't let anyone use data other than their content back then). It was the Motorola A1000.
Having bought a phone that was fantastic and better in every way than my last, I didn't feel a burning need to upgrade any time soon. At the time, no phone appeared that was like it, and when it stopped being sold (and even Motorola seems not to want to admit they made it), there wasn't anything like it out there that wasn't stupidly expensive or intended for business use.
Time passed by and I had to trade my phone in. It was tending to turn itself off randomly and my father (who had the same model bought at the same time) had his phone die on him over a year ago. Sooner or later my phone would be dead :( Plus my contract was by now ancient and over-priced for what I was getting. I'd come back from Birmingham and had no income. I wanted to see if I could get a touchscreen with a qwerty keypad for less than I was paying. Unfortunately, for the last few months, touchscreen phones with Qwerty were iPhone or equivalent, and these were expensive and only available for an amount equivalent to my old tariff.
However, technology moves on, so for £10 a month less, I now have a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has so far been totally awesome having all of the good features of my last phone, but also internet, email, alarms, a proximity sensor (so that I don't inadvertently press buttons when talking to people), the ability to take music with me, a camera that isn't bloody awful and a whole host of other things I probably don't know about yet and haven't figured out. I know it's an old phone, and it's been around long enough for it to be old hat, but I like having it.
Having bought a phone that was fantastic and better in every way than my last, I didn't feel a burning need to upgrade any time soon. At the time, no phone appeared that was like it, and when it stopped being sold (and even Motorola seems not to want to admit they made it), there wasn't anything like it out there that wasn't stupidly expensive or intended for business use.
Time passed by and I had to trade my phone in. It was tending to turn itself off randomly and my father (who had the same model bought at the same time) had his phone die on him over a year ago. Sooner or later my phone would be dead :( Plus my contract was by now ancient and over-priced for what I was getting. I'd come back from Birmingham and had no income. I wanted to see if I could get a touchscreen with a qwerty keypad for less than I was paying. Unfortunately, for the last few months, touchscreen phones with Qwerty were iPhone or equivalent, and these were expensive and only available for an amount equivalent to my old tariff.
However, technology moves on, so for £10 a month less, I now have a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which has so far been totally awesome having all of the good features of my last phone, but also internet, email, alarms, a proximity sensor (so that I don't inadvertently press buttons when talking to people), the ability to take music with me, a camera that isn't bloody awful and a whole host of other things I probably don't know about yet and haven't figured out. I know it's an old phone, and it's been around long enough for it to be old hat, but I like having it.