Remember When No One Had a Mobile/ Cell Phone...

Oh man, I love proper maps. Give me a map of anywhere in the world wherever I am and I can get about easily. Nothing better than sitting in the car, my husband driving and me studying the map and shouting instructions or hand signals.

 

Funny how this thread was started in 2008... the cell coverage around here wasn't very good, everyone still had landlines. I had a cell, but it wasn't used much, mostly because it wasn't much good for anything other than calls.
Got my first cell phone in college, but didn't take it with me anywhere, I just didn't see the point.
My cell is a pretty important part of my life now, it's used as a tool/mobile computer in my small business. They are much more useful now than they were back then.
There is a moment of panic if I forget it home, but then always turns out to be a peaceful day haha

 

I'm sick of this phone. I hate being tethered to it. I hate keeping track of it 24 hours a day. Keeping it charged. Keeping it OS updated. Always being concerned that one three foot drop could cost me $1000 at any time... They design these slick and sleek looking phones that we more or less have to put a bulletproof rubber boot on. Now we can't get from point A to point B without a damn phone now....could you imagine kids reading maps - yes, I like the GPS, but sometimes you want to see the whole route laid out on something bigger than a four inch screen ... they poke fun at my map collection.

 

Yeah, it's a hard life man
What the fuck is a sound bar anyway?

 

The first mobile phones were great, then companies saw them purely as a means of making money.
You get a new phone and everything seems fine. Then a year later you see someones new phone and realise how slow yours is, so another £1,000
What you don't realise is that the constant firmware updates, what you have installed and storage has slowed your existing phone down, so when you buy the new one you are simply back where you started. 12 months later, it all happens again.
These fancy phones run out of battery by lunchtime and even sooner if you use them as a sat-nav. You need to replace the battery and another £60 plus.

Meanwhile, my phone still works perfectly after 7 years, battery allows me to talk all day and standby is 21 days if not used. In reality I charge it twice a week.
Batteries cost £4 and take 30 seconds to change.

Before you ask me how much this state of the art phone costs, the answer is £32.
Just a plain old simple phone that slips into the top pocket of my shirt and does what it is supposed to do, make phone calls.

Over the last few years, more people are coming to their senses. You too could probably be £5,000 better off. LOL

 

I cannot stop laughing, thinking back to this old caption on a cartoon.

"I bought a new television last week and the sound is amazing". "The only problem is that the screen is at the back".