My Mobile and Me 📱
What is your relationship with your phone?
I don't think I can deny that I love my mobile phone. It has become a significant part of my life as you can do so much with it. It's always by my side and I'd feel lost if it was missing.
I don't use it for anything unusual, in fact I hardly have any Apps on it. For me, it's mostly used for:
- Phone
- Camera
- Messaging
- Browsing
- My Calendar
- Banking
- News Apps
It doesn't rule me. I have recently turned off the notifications for emails as I was becoming a slave to them. It also auto silences at 10pm until 9am each day. During silent time it has a few numbers which can break through to get me at any time: my mother, my other half, my sister, Carecall for my neighbour.
I was a relatively early adopter of the mobile. My first one, in 1993/4, was affectionately known as the Mars bar phone. I don't ever recall the chocolate bar being that size, but I guess it was the more rectangular style of it that earned the nickname. Officially it is the Sony CM-H333. I then moved onto the Motorola MicroTAC -- I still have it.
I knew very few people with mobile phones, and texting was quite a novelty. You could only send a text message to someone on the same network as you. Thankfully that has changed and we can message all over the world in a nano-second.
I had various other mobiles in the following years, but like most people I immediately gravitated to the original iPhone in November 2007 when it launched in the UK. No one can deny it was a game-changer of a device. You could do so much more, and with a decent web browser it opened up an even bigger world. Some earlier phones did have a basic web browser, but they relied on a simplified website to display content.
I stuck with Apple for many years, upgrading to the latest device. However, I eventually wanted out of their eco-system, which is quite restrictive. I was also curious about Android style phones, AND they were cheaper.
Fast forward to now, several Android phones later, and I have a RealMe 6 Pro running Android. It came out in late 2020 so I guess I got it not long after that. It does everything I need it to do. It has four camera lenses -- one is 64 mega-pixels. My DSLR camera doesn't even have that and can't slip in my pocket!
I love the lightening blue back
I realise the RealMe is coming up to four years old, but honestly I have no need to upgrade. What else do I need? All the latest phones just add gimmicky bells and whistles.
What do you have?
#41/50 in the FiftyIn50 blogging challenge.