a mobile phone is not a fashion accessory

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well, i dont think they are anyway yet i come across people who just luuuuuuuuurrrrrrrve their phones.
i have one yes, and i like having it. means i can reach people and they can reach me in need etc
but hell im not in love with the thing.
maybe i need one of those ones you can send photos via email with.. nah....am i simply behind in the techno-fashion field?

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

texting is handy too i have to admit.
BUT.......thats it, a communication device.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

and yeah, whatever happened to the good old fashioned photograph; image on shiny paper, needs sending then a little patience and a post office won't go a miss.

Mobile phones seem to have become what swanky watches meant in the eighties (or should that be the nineties).
Indeed they are very useful, but no need for the song and dance. Nice weight, okay size thats my only spec.

― chrisb (chrisb), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i drool over mine because of the LCD screen.

betcha tolkien had something like this in mind when he came up with the phial of galadriel.

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

certainly not. It's more like a pet. or a really good friend. who borrows $$

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 05:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Having had to use a pretty expensive one recently I do see why ppl like the bells-and-whistles ones - it does look and feel lovely. But I'm quite happy with my bog-standard pay-as-you-go one for most things.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 06:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got an old school Nokia, But I don't use it much. Ricky T has a cool mobile phone!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 06:54 (twenty-three years ago)

oh please! yes they are.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

My brick is no more, and I still haven't got my new bells and whistles equipped work phone.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haha tim's is cow-coloured!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Not a fashion thing, no, except in that the big ones ruin the line of your trousers.
I just got a new bottom-of-the-range phone (Sagem MW3020, if you care) to replace my old bottom-of-the-range phone, and it is massively more convenient, and doesn't have such a naff interface, so I can see why people might want more recent models.
Having said which, it's just for texting and trying to organise a friday night out

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

you ppl have too much technology. Mobile phones? a watch?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:16 (twenty-three years ago)

My mobile telephone is in fact rocking the snakeskin freisian tip, thank you very much.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've left my mobile off from the nineteenth untill today. I only know that because someone left a real important message then. Is communication good? I reckon sometimes one wants to hide away, in a secret lil paranoid zone.

― Gordon, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer conkers as fashion accessories.

― alix, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

this is like that thread where someone got bitched out for having lots of nice ties!

this "stance" is 41 x more ridiculous than any percieved materialist excess

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one, but only because I had to cancel my regular phone line becuase they refused to service the line (it was so static-y you couldn't properly hear what someone was saying to you and vice versa) and charged outrageous fees on top of that. Since I don't make many phone calls just keeping a mobile is much cheaper.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is a hefty old model - I think the version immediately before mine had a dial rather than buttons. I imagine the one before that was worn as a backpack and had to be vigorously wound up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my first one in 1993 and was initially into the supposed fashion value of the things - replacing handsets with the latest models etc. But now I hate them, although I still have one obviously. Part of my hatred comes from a diminishing interest in communicating with anybody (I never answer unless I recognize the number, and if I do recognize it I probably still won't answer). I particularly hate people who walk around with phones in their hand showing them off, as if I care what model Nokia you have - they all do the same damn things. And of course the ringtones. How can people get enthused over one silly set of beeps over another? Proper sampled ringtones might be good though - these are long overdue. I'm sure the manufacturers could quite easily have implemented this five years ago but they thought: 'these fools can be sold feeble cheapo electronic beeps for a good few years yet, let's hold back on the technology'.

― David (David), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

There are some phones (mainly in Japan) with the ability to program in sounds from several instruments simulatneously (i.e. to sound like a band, sans singer).

I am not in Japan. My phone sounds like an ice cream van

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Polyphonic ringtones yes - Samsung and Sony are doing them over here.

I currently own 6 mobile phones by the way but one of them doesn't work.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

But I own no ties at all!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Since I don't make many phone calls just keeping a mobile is much cheaper.

Yes, but think how expensive it now is for people to call you. That's just it, you *didn't* think, did you?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

But I own no ties at all!

I thought Carter USM fans liked to wear skinny ties.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe they tied their dogs' strings round their necks for special occasions.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an incredibly cheap Alcatel phone. It is a Virgin pay as you go one and it cost me £29, £10 of which was calls. I see it merely as a communications device, no-one in their right mind would ever consider it a fashion accessory. The only thing I don't like about it is that it is not possible to send text messages in lower case. By using upper case all the time, it's like I'm SHOUTING AT EVERYONE.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Carter USM fans liked to wear skinny ties.

Carter = the New Knack?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I am offended that my phone does not offer semi colons for texting. I am also offended by just how shit my phone is generally. I'd prefer a conker.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do people have flashing antennas???

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never seen anyone with flashing antennae.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 26 September 2002 06:58 (twenty-three years ago)

You should get out more.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

out into SPACE!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 26 September 2002 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

obv.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Space? I've heard of that place. It sounds cool. They have flashing antenae there

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

No antennas = fits better in your pocket, though. I would love my phone more if the reception was better, since most places I still get dropped calls and fuzz and no signal on a regular basis.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

In France, a mobile phone is now also a wallet.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

"The French should get a lot of credit for this," said Lars Vestergaard, wireless analyst at International Data. "They are far and away ahead of the rest of Europe."

Something similar has been running in Belgium for six months, but since one transaction costs 25 eurocents for the customer and 49 eurocents for the shopkeeper/seller, it's not a big success.

― StanM, Sunday, 18 November 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

That shit drives me up the F@#$!@ing wall. I thought the whole (well, a major) point of cashless transactions was to save businesses, and banks in particular, a buttload of money on storing, counting, and moving physical bills and coins. And so now we're supposed to pay extra for the techniques that allegedly reducing their expenses? Goddamn scumbags.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 18 November 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i am looking for a nice-looking PAYG mobile phone that does the usual basic things like texting and phoning, not fussed about camera or mp3 functions. i used to have this one:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/06/26/sams_p300_2.jpg
which i loved, but it broke. i liked the sharp straight edges and calculator-style layout.

any suggestions on similar types? and if you think you have a pretty phone, please post an image.

― NI, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

I had a pretty nice one like that last year, the "Motofone". It had a nifty electronic ink screen ala e-readers. Pretty rubbish for texting though, at least in Norway, since it didn't support Æ, Ø and Å.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3

It's ridiculously thin and cheap, as well.

― Øystein, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

Øystein, i had that one too. Loved it although if you text a lot you may find the large text lack of display room a little frustrating

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)

This is my current phone:

http://www.slashphone.com/media/data/1083/nokia-6500-slide-black-2.jpg
http://www.fonearena.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/nokia_6500_slide_black_1.jpg

A Nokia 6500 Slide Classic in black. I don't like phones. I don't want 3g or whatever. I want to make calls, occasionally text, and not be annoyed by it. This is metal, has been dropped and not scratched or malfunctioned, has an actually OK-ish camera for a mobile phone (3.2mp and a Zeiss lens), and is probably the only phone I'd say was a design classic. When I get offered a new handset I'll take it, ebay it, and keep this. The only downside is that the battery isn't amazing.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 13:32 (seventeen years ago)

any more beautiful phones? i think my only requirement is as many straight edges as possible.

― NI, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

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