[m i a o w] the cat

I have done an almost world beating long-jump in the realm of mobile phones. I began with a phone donated to me by Dylan (who out-gadgets me on a regular basis) - it was a Nokia so old that it probably didn’t even have a model number. It had red glowing LED and was insanely chunky. I thought it was totally the biz. So I had that for a year or two (back when I still wore glasses) and one day it rang just as I got out of the bath, and in groping blindly for it, I knocked it from the table and it fell in and drowned After that I got an Alcatel, which was my favourite thing, but the ‘9′ key was dodgy. I met someone else who had the same phone with the same fault. My admiration for it waned.
Though it did have one stand out feature, which was that you could run it on three AAA batteries if you needed to…

So then Dylan passed another phone my way…my trusty Nokia 5110, which I have had for about five years:

Until last night at the British Star hotel in Smith Street (you should check it out) where I met my small brother’s former flatmate who is over from London for a fleeting visit. My small brother had remembered his promise, and had bequeathed me his phone when he upgraded. His former housemate was nice enough to drag it all the way to Melbourne, despite having about one hours sleep due to excessive partying, and delivered it to me (with a couple of gin & tonics - thanks Liv!) in the front bar. Today I bought a travel plug converter, and I am feeling slightly bewildered by all the options it has - but I’m glad I can now have more than 30 numbers in my address book. I also have bluetooth, a camera and probably other stuff that I haven’t yet stumbled on. Now, if I could just figure out how to get my pictures from the phone to my computer…

Oh…and predictive text is insanely annoying, but I’m hoping it will improve with time.

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[…] Was sorry to hear you missed the chance to hang out with U2 and Green Day at the pub, and hope you are not CAVORTING somewhere FRIVOLOUS next time the opportunity arises. There are certain responsibilities that come with being my Small Brother, and this is most definitely one of them. If you ever plan to get around to sending me your old phone, I would be more than appreciative, as the last one you sent has taken to becoming very sluggish of a morning. And the colder the morning, the longer it takes to wake up - I expect that it will soon request its own electric blanket. […]

« [m i a o w] the cat typed this on Sep 25 06 at 10:28 pm

Welcome to the 21st Century. It takes a little while to get used to predictive text. The trick to it is, - you must learn to predict what the phone thinks you want to say.

Dennis typed this on Jun 12 05 at 1:26 pm

Or you could just turn it off?

kartar typed this on Jun 12 05 at 4:16 pm

Predictive text will become your best friend. trust me! It’s funny… i remember my first mobile was about double the size of what my cordless phone is now…

robert typed this on Jun 12 05 at 5:29 pm

i am waiting for it to become my friend, but half the time I follow Kartar’s advice and turn the bloody thing off - it drives me insane. I am a very quick texter and it’s HOLDING ME BACK!

b:p typed this on Jun 14 05 at 1:08 pm

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