re recomendation re mobil phones

My mobile is alternately called “the swichboard” or “Iceland Radio” by my (so called) friends. It is an old first generation Motorola. Why I still have it:

1. It´s big and heavy so there is less chance of me loosing it.
2. It is old and out of date so nobody wants to steal it
3. It works.
4. Why throw away something that works fine.
5. I don´t need to send a picture of my ear to my friends.

Re: Moggy’s mobile phone criteria

Originally posted by Moggy C
1) It has a stand-by time greater than a working day

2) If I push the buttons on the front in a defined sequence it connects to the phone that I was trying to connect to.

3) It has an off switch so that nobody can ring me if I don’t want them to

4) It has caller display so I don’t have to answer it if I don’t want to speak to whoever has caught me in the limited amount of time I have the phone switched on

5) There is no contract. It must be ‘pay as you go’

6) It has at least one ring that isn’t some feeble little tune, but actually sounds a bit like a telephone.

7) It must cost less than 75 quid. Less than 50 quid is even better

8) It should be so unfashionable that none of the types of people who think mobile phones are ‘cool’ would ever dream of trying to steal it.

Moggy

Here here… although i am guilty of using the phone tunes… Sorry :rolleyes:

Moggy’s mobile phone criteria

1) It has a stand-by time greater than a working day

2) If I push the buttons on the front in a defined sequence it connects to the phone that I was trying to connect to.

3) It has an off switch so that nobody can ring me if I don’t want them to

4) It has caller display so I don’t have to answer it if I don’t want to speak to whoever has caught me in the limited amount of time I have the phone switched on

5) There is no contract. It must be ‘pay as you go’

6) It has at least one ring that isn’t some feeble little tune, but actually sounds a bit like a telephone.

7) It must cost less than 75 quid. Less than 50 quid is even better

8) It should be so unfashionable that none of the types of people who think mobile phones are ‘cool’ would ever dream of trying to steal it.

Moggy

I think that amongts youngsters, how cool you are all depends on your model of phone.

A brick is a chunky phone that doesn’t fit into your pocket, the sort that at one stage in life, was super-cool. You are a cool dude(!!) if you have a tiny phone with a colour screen and a built in camera.

But as long as it does the job, then why change? I have a Samsung T100 on contract, so the handset was only £25 and I pay £15 a month but get 12 hours of calls. I’d never even consider forking out £450.00 on a mobile and definitely not a Nokia. Their phones change far too frequently for my liking!

My third hand (and free) Nokia 3210 is the biz. It makes calls and receives them. Isn’t that what mobiles are supposed to do?

Oh dear

Moggy shakes grey-haired head in disbelief and hopes that some, younger chap, will explain to him the point of paying 450 quid for a phone that will send low resolution pictures to another user (provided they have a similar phone) at the drop of a hat.

Under what circumstances is it necessary to send an image to somebody more quickly than can be done with a conventional digicam / PC set-up? I realise it might be handy were you to meet Mr Posh Spice in the checkout queue at Lo-Cost but , honest guys, that’s an ad – not real life.

I believe I know the answer.

Isn’t it something to do with the way phones are fast becoming a commodity rather than a status symbol and the marketeers at the mobile companies are getting increasingly desperate to persuade people to waste lots of money on upgrading to ever-more pointless gadgetry, rather than pick up a sub-50 quid phone from the supermarket?

However I am not in the first flush of youth, maybe I am missing something?

Open minded, prepared to be convinced here.

Moggy