A Tale of Two Phones

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was a phone that lasted 5 days with out recharge, and it was the phone that wouldn't allow you to update your twitter feed every 5 minutes.

This is a rebutte of my wife's last post explaining how terrible the phone is.  I would like to go point by point of what she says, and see if we can read between the lines.

All it does is make calls and texts - YES! A phone that actually makes calls and texts... consistently... WOOHOO!

It doesn’t even have a camera - At times I also find this annoying, however I have found myself reverting back to a time when I truly enjoyed the experience, rather than trying to document.  As one cannot measure the velocity and location of a particle simultaneously, a person cannot experience and document that experience simultaneously.

it does have a torch - Eh... sort of stupid... the screen is a bit brighter than the torch itself.

Writing out a text takes about 10 minutes - But... on the plus side you have a full 5 days of battery power, so you will have plenty of time to type those texts!

What she failed to mention was the fact that you can program a fake call!  Need to end a boring conversation in a somewhat rude, but understandable manner?  Fake call. Programmable to 5, 10 and 60 seconds from the time it is activated.

I also have rarely seen the phone come out and be placed on the dinner table just in case a text/email/facebook post important enough to stop a conversation pops up.  By having this phone everyone also knows that there are only two ways to contact us, which is pretty cool.  As well, I believe that I am getting a far better mental image of how London geography is due to the fact that I cannot completely rely on googlemaps.

Yes, it is true, this phone is straight out of 1999... but was communication back then so much worse than it is today?  Was it really so bad to enjoy the moments between your hello hug/handshake and your goodbye hug/handshake with just the person that you hugged/handshook? No, I would say not.  In fact I would say in many ways it is better, more personal.  This phone brings me back to the days when Clinton was president, our economy was booming, Airports were still fun to go to and there were rumors of this really neat technology that would let us listen to hundreds of songs out of an incredibly large 5GB iPod.  If this phone is bad, I don't want to be good. Let us all party like its 1999, period phones required.