A cellphone for me is a tool to reach out and TALK to someone, everything else that has been added on top is unnecessary and merely a ploy to milk more money out of the consumer for services they don't really need, but have been rather brilliantly marketed into thinking they do: texting, social networking, picture & video sharing and of all things playing arcade games on those tiny squint-your-eyes screens.
Don't get me wrong, I see the awesome results of applied engineering from several fields into Apple's iPhone and I'll be the first to applaud it, that one gadget has forced other companies to also try to engineer their best into their products; however, what I am not convinced of is the value of such engineering into a product that doesn't answer a need but artificially creates an endless thirst for one: the eternal loop of I-gotta-have-it upgrading, juicy profit margins for the vendors and the carriers non whit standing.
When I gave a cell phone to my son I issued him with one of the basic ones. I need the phone to work as it should in an emergency without worries of the battery being depleted because he was texting, playing games or listening to music on it. For the entertainment side of things he has a GameBoy and an iPod... always the right tool for the right job.
Having said that, I found the entry on www.csectioncomics.com very amusing to say the least:
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and speaking of late adopters, here's how everyone else sees 2G users:
True... true...
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