Yesterday I surrendered my 5-year-old phone and loaded the SIM card into a fairly modern phone. It's a Nokia 5300. It has a huge colour screen. It can play music and video files. It can take pictures. It made me seem like a big hypocrite.
Obviously I will not be writing this post if I don't already have an explanation. So here we go...
First of all I didn't buy this phone off the shelf. My sister's phone contract had ended meaning she could sign a new one and in the process earn a free phone (i.e., cost of phone is included in the plan). Normally she would dump her old phone and use this new one, but she already purchased a new one in HK. Thus the logical thing to do is to give me the new phone.
Now of course I can refuse to use the new phone. I almost did, had the phone not support Chinese. Alternatively I could pick a phone that doesn't have all these features. That was undoable for a number of reasons. After Chinese support, I looked for the form factor, or it's "pocketability". Some of my jeans pockets are pretty tight so thinness and small size is much sought after. Turns out all the Nokia phones that came for free were either too long or too thick. There were no winner in the "pocket test". Thus I fell back to features and the choice was obvious.
I believe I have not explain why I did not refuse using a new phone. All my previous posts must have impressed on my readers that I am an anti-technology person. This is simply not the case. I merely dislike embracing new technology for the sake of technology. If I can't do more of the things I want to do then the upgrade is worth next to nothing to me. However if the upgrade comes for free, then the benefit of upgrading (next to nothing) outweighs the cost (nothing). In laymans' term, it's just a case of me being a tight-ass at spending money. ;-)
For me, the major benefit of the new phone is the ability to manage my phonebook on a computer. Previously half the numbers were stored in the phone and half in the SIM card. Moving to a new phone meant losing half the numbers (I refused to manually add them back). Now everything is neatly stored on the phone...it's okay to call me a neat freak. On the other hand, I vow never to use a sliding phone in my life. It's too prone to accidental opening, especially when slipping it into my tight jeans pockets.
Hopefully, with the built-in camera I will take more photos and post them here. I already had a few ideas floating in my mind.
2 comments:
A new phone finally brings Dom into the 21st Century.
I hope you do use your new attached camera to take some pics, but if experience is any guide the quality and clarity of camera phones is rather disappointing.
That's okay. The pictures are just for raising a topic, rather than being the centre of attention.
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