I got a new phone for Christmas. I realised that this is my 4th cell phone.
Phone history -
phone 1 - I got it about 4 years ago. It became outdated so I got a new one and gave phone 1 to my dad. He’s still using it.
phone 2 - A birthday present. However it got stolen last December. Someone broke into the staff room where I was working and took it along with my purse.
phone 3 - This september my brother gave me his phone as he never used it. It was a slight upgrade from phone 2.
phone 4 - I wanted to go from pay-as-you-go to a contract phone. So I got a new phone from my parents for Christmas. It’s about half the size of my last phone. Phone 3 will probably find its way back to my brother.
So dopers, how many cell phones have you been through?
Just three. My current phone is a Motorola StarTac (my service is Verizon). It’s obsolete, I guess, but it does everything I want it to, so I see no reason to get rid of it.
I just bought my second phone.,The first one was getting some “screen burn” and it was acting like it was going to need a battery soon and the new phone was just a little more $ than a battery. The first phone lasted me just over 2 years if I get that again I will be a happy boy.
(Kyocera phones using Virgin Mobile service)
First was a Sprint phone that worked OK as long as I was in Sprint PCS territory, otherwise totally dead as it had no roaming capability.
Next was a Nokia that came with the job. After about a year, the battery went bad and wouldn’t last more than a day, so it was replaced with a new vibrating one. Not two months later, it wandered away and was replaced by my current phone, another Nokia, but smaller and with vibrate built in.
Judging by my counterparts in a neighboring department, my next phone will have a polyphonic ringer and color screen. Meh.
I’m too ummm, thrifty to buy phones with all the bells and whistles. I go for the freebie available with the service contract and am on year 2 of the current service with phone 2. First one lasted a little over 3 years.
The cheap ones work fine for me, and I don’t use all the features available even on them, why spend more for what I don’t need, eh?
I started off with a big ol’ Siemens clunker, then I got my Nokia 6910, which I still own.
I don’t need all the “bells and whistles” that the newer phones come with, and really only use the Nokia when I’m out on the bike trail or for car emergencies. (Hell I have something like 150.00 dollars in minutes built up which don’t expire till November of next year!).
Do any of you “techno-mavens” know if the phone I now have might become obsolete or am I pretty much set, fo say, another ten years or so?
Well it depends on what you want to do with it. I have my email forwarded to my phone, and I like to surf around the net and get my news and sport scores. I suppose if you want to actually call someone, then the 6910 is just fine.
I’m on my third one.
My first was a Samsung that lasted a year and the sound that came through the earpiece just kept getting tinnier and tinnier.
My second was a Kyocera. it lasted a little under two years. I started to get screen burn, and the sound was starting to go as well.
My new phone is a Nokia. It’s really small. It fits comfortably into the breast pocket of my jacket without bulging and has a pretty good battery life.
If you are not too concerned about having the latest gadget, you can get the cell phone company to replace your phone every year.
phone One: (1996) A Nokia phone. Clunky, ugly, EXTREMELY HEAVY, big, boxy and made crackling noises. And the manufacturers had a nerve to put a WRIST STRAP on it!
phone Two: (1999) A Sprint phone. Served us well and even had a feature that recorded memos and names. Unfortunately, it had a run in with Queens Boulevard.
phone Three: (2000) An Omnipoint phone. Was a pretty alright phone, until I went on a senior trip to Washington D.C, ald all of a sudden stopped working.
phone Four: (2002) Kyocera phone with Verizon service. Pretty ugly phone in and of itself, but did what it was supposed to do until one day it too decided to fail on me.
phone Five: (2003) Virgin Mobile phone, a wonderful, light phone, with no contract service. I’m pretty impressed with it so far, and I hope it lasts me longer than the other four did.
