So, my site continues to improve; better photos, better content, more widgets. As great advancements in website awesomness are made, I feel like I need to counter that progress, and let you in on what a giant loser I am.
I've owned a mobile phone for 10 years. No, not just one.... MANY! I've decided to share with you a brief history of my plethora of phones, and possibly an anecdote about each. Won't this be exciting?
Here we go:
My first phone, a Sony, on Clearnet PCS, Dec '99. Still my phave phone, it had a scroll wheel, and was super bulky, loved it!
I traded in the Sony for a Nokia 6188 that was WAYYYYY smaller, and the battery life SUCKED! YESSSS!
The Nokia was donated to my Mom. She used it so much, she went over her alotted 20 daytime minutes per month once....ONCE! Jeez, that's a lot of talking, Mom. Then it was on to a Samsung 8580, my first flip fone.
This was 2001, I'd heard of Txt Msgs, but I had no idea what that was, and had no idea if I could do that on this. This phone went to Dave. I think he was still using it, up until last year when he got an iPhone.
Next came this:
Audiovox 8100. Why I wanted this, I'll never know. Totally unsexy, large and cheap feeling. I remember losing this phone once while drunk at a hotel in Toronto. They found it the next morning, and returned it to me. I couldn't get RID of this thing. Got my first ever txt on it though. Still an unsolved mystery txt, received in 3 parts. I got one part, Godin got another and Possee got the third. To this day, we still have NO CLUE who was watching us that night down at the clock in Ambleside.
My last phone with Telus, also the smallest mobile I've ever owned, Samsung SPH-A540. I took this phone to Japan with me in 2003....Ya, Japan runs on their own network, this sucker served me well as a Yen-weight.
I switched to Fido PURELY to get my next phone: Nokia 7210, I HAD to have it, NEEDED it, couldn't LIVE without it....until the next cool one came along, and I gave this to Ryan. I think he still used it up until last year when he got an iPhone....hmmm, trend developing? (I had the silver one.)
Next: Motorola V400. First camera phone, super duper rings too. Phone went to Andy when I was done. You guessed it...I think he still used it, up until last year when he got an iPhone.
And then came my final phone phone, before i went smart phone. Thought I'd go out with a bang: Moto Razr V3. Loved this one, used it A LOT to txt while driving. It went to Bridget after I was done with it. Had awesome pics of us skiing on it. She had it for 2 days, then it got stolen with her bag at some club in T.O.
Smartphone time: Nokia E62. Email was really slow on this, no camera, web browsing sucked, weird shape. LOVED IT!! Sold this to a dude who sent it to the Phillipines for his aging Dad. Must have worked, he never came back looking for a refund.
Should have gone Blackberry, but instead: Moto Q9h. OK camera, odd size, dodgy email: LOVED IT! Eventually the USB jack fell out and the backlit KB stopped working. Took it to Fido, the dude just kinda looked at me funny. "What are my options?", I asked. To which he replied, "Want a brand new one? We have lots, NOBODY bought these, what were you THINKING?"
Which brings us to the present: iPhone 3G. Ryland had this to say when I mentioned writing a blog post about my mobile history, "Sure, if you personalize it and it's funny, but if you think you're the first dude to write about an iPhone, you are obviously wrong." Well, sir, I looked into it. After Googling "Dude writes about iPhone" and getting ZERO results for that exact phrase, turns out: I AM THE FIRST DUDE TO WRITE ABOUT AN iPHONE!! NAILED IT!!!!
This mobile has no rival, sorry Cantel Amigo.
So, that just happened. If you're reading this, you have way too much time on your hands.
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Peace.
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