While I don’t measure my self-worth by having the latest gadgets, my phone is beginning to be an embarrassment.
Next to today’s smart phones, mine is decidedly dumb. It’s not as if I’m walking around with one of those brick-sized walkie talkie looking things, like Michael Douglas had in Wall Street, but it’s a Flintstones phone in a Jetsons universe.
Sure, it makes calls just fine, but as for anything else, forget about it. Even sending a simple text message takes forever. This surprises people who know me as fairly tech savvy, what with all that tweeting and blogging, and such.
It wasn’t so bad before, but now the old-style phones are clearly in the minority. This can be a problem, particularly in the business world. Imagine sitting around the table with some high powered people — perhaps they are potential clients — and you pull out something that looks like a Fisher-Price Friendly Flip. They may not say it, but they are thinking, “How are we going to trust a guy with THAT phone?”
We should remember that keeping a phone in your pocket is a relatively new thing, much less a small computer. The things that would have seemed miraculous 20 years ago are now outdated. I do have one advantage over that guy with the iPhone 4S: If my phone falls in the urinal, I won’t feel bad.
I could not agree with you more! My wife has been nagging me for six months to get a new phone. She thought I was finally going to break when the battery died last week…not. I found a replacement battery on line for $3.75 Woo Hoo!! Old technology for at least another year.
It’s funny. I’ll spend money on things I feel I really need or to have unique experiences, but I also have a highly developed cheap bone that stops me from doing things like upgrading the phone.
This may be good.
If I had a cool phone I’d just be messing around with it constantly. as if there are not enough distractions now.
I need to wear reading glasses to text on my iPhone. If they ever make a ‘big button’ iPhone, I’m there.
Can one make a call with an iPad? It would look funny in your pocket, I suspect.
Dude! Your phone sucks!
Google Voice, Skype and GoToMeeting work perfectly on the iPad2 (I have the 3G version). I’m just trying, with limited success, to appear to be less of a geek.