My Mobile Phone is Nicer than Yours
Yes, in fact, it is.
It’s my first mobile phone. It has quad-band GPRS, so it should work in Canada and Europe (although I doubt I’ll activate roaming).
It has a very nice and bright colour screen, which is bigger than the screen on your mobile phone. The screen is touch sensitive, and there are four ways to enter data using the stylus: Palm Graffiti (in which I am fluent), two sorts of Microsoft recognition, one which permits writing anywhere on the screen, and an onscreen keyboard. It also comes with a snap-on thumb keyboard which is surprisingly easy to use, and far superior to the stylus methods, especially on the bus.
Your mobile phone requires one hundred taps on the number pad in order to send a ten character text message. I can play games on the bus, send and receive email. I am a modern nomad, always moving and always connected!
I also have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radio interfaces, so I can use it to browse the internet at high bandwidth at home or in Starbucks. I can install Skype on it, and use it to make free calls over the Internet. Can your phone do that?
If you don’t know the answer, let me help you out: no, your phone cannot.
My mobile phone is nicer than yours, unless you have the same mobile phone in which case it is equivalent.
If you have the same mobile phone but with more memory and the integrated camera, then remember that I’m being kicked out of my home for Christmas, my home phone and internet has been cut off, and thanks for rubbing it in, you jerk.
GKarlsen
Holy Smokes!!!
Well aren’t you the braying ass…you face a little bit of apartment-related adversity and all of a sudden you start insulting everyone. Just because our mobile phones are a few features light doesn’t necessarily mean that we are bad, nasty, useless, evil, stupid, smelly, ignorant, fashion-challenged people.
And, really, it sounds to me like you are compensating for inadequecies in other areas by focusing on the SIZE and GIRTH of your phones features. Couldn’t afford a Corvette? Hmmm…
P.S. What makes a phone really useful is when you tell other people the number by which they might communicate with you…
OK – you win and I will calmly lay down and die – you have a nicer mobile phone than me. But in my defence – I don’t pay for mine!
But still – I’ll come right out and say what you clearly need to hear – in terms of technological whizbangs (the currency of the modern age) – everything you have is better than everything I have. And it always will be. You are the winner, TinFoiled – and I salute you.
Enjoy your crown of thorns, SuperGeek!
Sorry to rain on your parade, but in fact, my mobile phone is much nicer than yours.
Let me run through some of its features:
- It doesn’t ring when I’m in a movie or concert
- it certainly doesn’t have one of those annoying vanity dingles
- it doesn’t give me an excuse to behave boorishly and take calls when I’m having dinner with someone
- it gives me a wonderful feeling of freedom – freedom from being reached and tied to work or other obligations
- it is the lightest mobile phone on the market – exactly 0.00 grams
- it doesn’t require me to spend an ever-increasing percentage of my disposable income on it
- And best of all: I got it for free!
Stack that up against your “quad-band GPRS, Palm Graffiti, 802.11b, USB 2.0, bluetooth” madness!
ROGER, Roger, roger.
Don’t be bitter because no one calls you…