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I've just had to cave in and acquire a new mobile phone. Unfortunately I'm no longer allowed to have a phone which just makes and receives calls, the marketing creeps have decreed that it has to be full of technowankery. This means I have had to have a digital 'camera' for the first time.
Guess who was my first victim!
This is my third mobile, andf the first on a contract as opposed to pay-as-you-go.
I got my first one, a Philips whose model number I can't remember, in 1999 because I was going to Brussels for a couple of weeks and needed to keep in touch. I chose O2 pay-as-you-go and had every intention of throwing it away as soon as I got home. It never happened.
In 2003 it was still doing a perfectly good job of making and receiving calls but it had built-in obsolescence and the display became unreadable. So reluctantly I had to splash out on a new phone, the sturdy and reliable Nokia 3310. That, too, made and received calls, which was still all I needed.
Recently, however, although it was still working fine, it went AWOL. Whether nicked, or left somewhere, or simply lost amongst the debris of my flat I may never know. I was seriously wondering whether I really needed a mobile, but then I came across the offer from BT, whereby if I signed up to the BT Fusion network I got a new phone which fitted in with my BT Broadbean so that it is, in effect, a mobile when I'm away from home and a wireless handset when I am at home. With it I get a new router (so I can sell the old one) and three months free broadbean, and a free Motorola V3B mobile with digital camera, email and Bluetooth whatnots.
Is it worth it? We shall see. But I still think all marketing people should be rounded up and shot.
Guess who was my first victim!
This is my third mobile, andf the first on a contract as opposed to pay-as-you-go.
I got my first one, a Philips whose model number I can't remember, in 1999 because I was going to Brussels for a couple of weeks and needed to keep in touch. I chose O2 pay-as-you-go and had every intention of throwing it away as soon as I got home. It never happened.
In 2003 it was still doing a perfectly good job of making and receiving calls but it had built-in obsolescence and the display became unreadable. So reluctantly I had to splash out on a new phone, the sturdy and reliable Nokia 3310. That, too, made and received calls, which was still all I needed.
Recently, however, although it was still working fine, it went AWOL. Whether nicked, or left somewhere, or simply lost amongst the debris of my flat I may never know. I was seriously wondering whether I really needed a mobile, but then I came across the offer from BT, whereby if I signed up to the BT Fusion network I got a new phone which fitted in with my BT Broadbean so that it is, in effect, a mobile when I'm away from home and a wireless handset when I am at home. With it I get a new router (so I can sell the old one) and three months free broadbean, and a free Motorola V3B mobile with digital camera, email and Bluetooth whatnots.
Is it worth it? We shall see. But I still think all marketing people should be rounded up and shot.
