Shout About Mobiles

I was digging through a drawer the other day and came accross a phone I bought around 4/5 years ago. It was the Samsung P510.

For those of you that don’t know this little phone, it had an automatic flip on it – press a button on the side, and the clamshell opens up and I bought the P510 purely for this little feature!.

I remember getting chased around my car when a friend saw it, and wanted to play with the phone. I said a phone was not a toy and refused to hand it over, they started to chase me, and a hilarious scene of stop and start, chase ensued, complete with onstant changing directions. I think I fell over laughing and handed the phone over.

Anyway, it as it was such a gimmicky reason to buy a phone, but I was thinking about why I like a phone now. I usually decide based on how many things it can do – faster internet, GPS, camera, etc etc.

How times have changed! Mobile phones when they first came out were all about calls and texts, then cameras, and music then internet. The most advanced thing you could do with them then was buy a different cover!

Oh, and remember the “latest” polyphonic ringtones?! How bad were they? I actually spent £2.50 buying a Britney Spears track for it. Once I’d charged the phone and listened to it… oh dear!

What a way we have come. I wonder what our phones will do in another 5 years…?