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CELL PHONES
I got a new cell phone this week. For some reason or the other, It seems like I have to switch phones every six months or so. I just started getting used to the last one, and now I have to figure out this new one.
Is it just me or do today’s phones have just too many features? After all, its just a phone , right ? At the very least, all I should have to know is, where the hell are the red and green buttons. It seems like you have to be an engineering genius, or an 11 year old kid to figure out how to work these darn things. Hmm…(maybe I should just get the Jitterbug)
I turned on my new phone for the first time the other day, and immediately heard the national anthem. It turns out I missed the call.. while standing there with my right hand over my heart. A few minutes latter the phone rang again, and I swear I pushed every button on that sucker trying to retrieve the call. It turns out I sent 2 text messages, deleted a voice mail, ordered a pizza, and took 3 pictures of my feet, in the process.
My new phone is more like a mini computer than a phone. I can play games, view videos, listen to music, jump on the internet for a stock quote, or even get verbal GPS directions to the local I- HOP. Not only that, there is a whole new lexicon you have to know when you acquire one of these phones. There are Function keys, and contact lists, messages boxes, web browsers, caller I.D. and speed dial lists….not to mention “rollover minutes”
Have you noticed that they keep making these darn things smaller and smaller. I find myself see-sawing this thing back and forth from my mouth when I need to talk, and then back to my ear to listen… its getting hard to do both at the same time, unless you want to put it on speaker so that the rest of the world can hear your private conversation.
Phones just used to ring, and then you would answer them. Today phones have ring tones, and that can be anything from some weird synthesized sounds to the theme music from star wars. I hate it when I’m having dinner at a restaurant and the guy next to me sounds like he’s playing the starting music from the Kentucky Derby. You can even customize your ring tone to each caller. When my mother-in law calls my phone plays “who let the Dogs Out”. My favorite setting is to put the phone on Vibrate…I get a kick out of watching that sucker light up and walk across the table.
I’m also thinking about suing my cell phone company because I think I have developed carpel tunnel in my thumbs from sending text messages. People pass me going down the road, and I have the steering wheel propped up between my knees, and my thumbs are going to town like a fiddler crab with Parkinson’s dieses. Hey, and that’s not to mention the effect of the radio waves on our bodies. Most people are worried about the effect it will have on the tissues in the brain. I carry mine in my front pants pocket…what about them tissues ?
I also like the built in camera. People are always sending me pictures and video’s. The down side is that I hit download and all of a sudden I have some embarrassing video playing on full speaker when I’m in a crowed room. But my favorite is the “Blue Tooth accessory”…I walk by people that appear to be talking to themselves, only to find that they are actually on the phone. All in all, I guess I like my new phone. I mean, really, who am I, to stand in the way of technology.
Anyway….feel free to give me a call (but only if you are in my “Circle of Friends”)
P.I.B.
I got a new cell phone this week. For some reason or the other, It seems like I have to switch phones every six months or so. I just started getting used to the last one, and now I have to figure out this new one.
Is it just me or do today’s phones have just too many features? After all, its just a phone , right ? At the very least, all I should have to know is, where the hell are the red and green buttons. It seems like you have to be an engineering genius, or an 11 year old kid to figure out how to work these darn things. Hmm…(maybe I should just get the Jitterbug)
I turned on my new phone for the first time the other day, and immediately heard the national anthem. It turns out I missed the call.. while standing there with my right hand over my heart. A few minutes latter the phone rang again, and I swear I pushed every button on that sucker trying to retrieve the call. It turns out I sent 2 text messages, deleted a voice mail, ordered a pizza, and took 3 pictures of my feet, in the process.
My new phone is more like a mini computer than a phone. I can play games, view videos, listen to music, jump on the internet for a stock quote, or even get verbal GPS directions to the local I- HOP. Not only that, there is a whole new lexicon you have to know when you acquire one of these phones. There are Function keys, and contact lists, messages boxes, web browsers, caller I.D. and speed dial lists….not to mention “rollover minutes”
Have you noticed that they keep making these darn things smaller and smaller. I find myself see-sawing this thing back and forth from my mouth when I need to talk, and then back to my ear to listen… its getting hard to do both at the same time, unless you want to put it on speaker so that the rest of the world can hear your private conversation.
Phones just used to ring, and then you would answer them. Today phones have ring tones, and that can be anything from some weird synthesized sounds to the theme music from star wars. I hate it when I’m having dinner at a restaurant and the guy next to me sounds like he’s playing the starting music from the Kentucky Derby. You can even customize your ring tone to each caller. When my mother-in law calls my phone plays “who let the Dogs Out”. My favorite setting is to put the phone on Vibrate…I get a kick out of watching that sucker light up and walk across the table.
I’m also thinking about suing my cell phone company because I think I have developed carpel tunnel in my thumbs from sending text messages. People pass me going down the road, and I have the steering wheel propped up between my knees, and my thumbs are going to town like a fiddler crab with Parkinson’s dieses. Hey, and that’s not to mention the effect of the radio waves on our bodies. Most people are worried about the effect it will have on the tissues in the brain. I carry mine in my front pants pocket…what about them tissues ?
I also like the built in camera. People are always sending me pictures and video’s. The down side is that I hit download and all of a sudden I have some embarrassing video playing on full speaker when I’m in a crowed room. But my favorite is the “Blue Tooth accessory”…I walk by people that appear to be talking to themselves, only to find that they are actually on the phone. All in all, I guess I like my new phone. I mean, really, who am I, to stand in the way of technology.
Anyway….feel free to give me a call (but only if you are in my “Circle of Friends”)
P.I.B.
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