Going back to my roots

For months I had been dreaming of my new iPhone 4 and counting the days till I got one of my very own. Within 5 days I had managed (don’t ask) to drop it down the toilet – the iPhone 4, I can confirm, is not waterproof and so I had to return to the shop, tail between legs, and hand over my soaked iPhone in return for a new one. Unbeknown to me that this procedure would take 3 weeks time (return back to Apple, get a new one sent out, in store realise that they had sent the wrong iPhone 3GS, send it back to Apple AGAIN, then my shiny new one arrives weeks later).

So imagine my surprise when, in store, they hand me over a Nokia 1650 as my courtesy phone to replace my ‘does everything’ iPhone. My first question was “does this access the mobile internet”, the man simple smiled at me in a kind-hearted way and retorted that it had a “colour screen”. I left the shop in disgust.

For nearly a month I had to use this old skool handset and my god it is unbelievable how far things have progressed in mobile in such a short time. To just have the basic facilities of talk and text just simply is not good enough anymore, well not for me anyway.  Especially when the interface is not intuitive and you have to go back and forth from one menu to the other to complete these simple tasks. It didn’t even have a camera!!

The whole experience was totally painful and made me realise that I simply cannot survive without a mobile internet phone. The fact that I could not instantly see what the weather’s up to, find out where I am and where I need to go, catch up on industry/mates news, listen to my tunes, listen to any tunes, call people for free/video call, check out my banking, check out the train times, access my email, search for recipes for tea that night, take pictures, manipulate and upload direct to my social pages, comment, like, vote, the list is endless. All these things I need on a daily basis and as more and more people realise the potential of the stuff that they can do on their handsets, the more exciting this space is becoming.

Long live the smartphone!

Jenny