Tuesday, February 10, 2009

It is no longer a brick!


Cell phones have really changed over the past ten years. It is really amazing.

It is no longer a brick, my cell phone. My first cell phone was a donation from my father's company. I wish I could have a found a picture for you. Let me describe it. Nextel phone, 2 inches thick and could have been run over my a tank and still worked. It had been dropped a few times (by my dad), when we was working on the roofs of some building (3 stories at least). It was still working. That phone lasted me a couple of years, 3 years I think.

I was lucky to have a friend (Thanks, Holly) donate me a new phone 4 years ago. It was only a 1 inch thick and it was a flip phone. I had the batman ring tone. That phone lasted me 4 years. This past week, I had to retire that phone.

Both cell phones, I have had have been laughed at and mocked because of their size (both being referred to as a brick.) I loved them and cared for them. Even once the cell company laughed that I was still using an old cell phone, that was 1 year ago. I finally made the decision to join the "rest" of the world and get a slick new phone. Actually, I was not swayed by the world, my old phone was dying and my brother in law had an old phone(newer for me). It is so little and tiny, what to do. Oh, thanks to my brother in law for helping to bring me to the exciting world of a slicker cell phone. Whoo hoo.

4 comments:

Kimberly said...

When I went to visit Jason in NYC his friends said my cell phone looked like a Playschool "My First Cell Phone" except not as fancy!

It's really old. And doesn't take pictures. Or have a color screen. I don't even think it would be able to text if I had to do it.......

But whatever, it's a pay per minute one and I don't have to pay a plan a monthly fee! Hand me down phones are the awesomest!

I have noticed though, that I can tell how old a movie is by the look of the cell phones! Yikes!

Landaker Family said...

Congrats on your new phone. No more teasing you and your huge phone. Love ya ;)

Patty Fingers said...

some people buy their cool cell phones. Just a thought! HA!

Angie (Drowns) Kelly said...

So I guess you'll join the iphone world in like 10years? And i so remember the original brick!