I saw a photo on Facebook the other
day that made me think about writing this blog. The photo was of an iPhone and
a Nokia 3310. The capture underneath said that if you drop the iPhone on the
floor you smash the screen, but if you drop the Nokia 3310 you smash the floor!
I remember clearly getting my first
mobile phone which happened to be the solid Nokia 3310. It was the must have
phone at the time and I thought that it was the be all and end all!! I was 13
and loved nothing more than downloading ring tones from TV ads! Can you imagine
that… paying for music!! I also was a champion at playing the world’s greatest
game, Snake.
But soon mobiles started to change.
The tones got better, you had a little built in camera, then a little radio and
then the biggest development ever…. The decline of talking and the rapid use of
those little digitals we call thumbs which aided us with texting! I would also
like to mention the changeable covers!!! You could a different one for every day
of the week!
But we have come a long long way in
a very short space of time. We have Apple to thank for that. They gave the
world the iPhone. It is so much more than a phone; in fact the ability to make
calls on it is a bonus. It’s a phone that can answer any question, it can save
your music, organise your own life in fact. As I said it’s much more than a
phone, it’s more like a handheld device that we can use to get in connect with
people all over the world without a delay. This is because of apps like
Facebook, Twitter and the fact that it has the internet on it altogether. There
is an app out there for everyone. Angry birds, heart monitor, and guess what my
latest app is..??.... SNAKE!!! I have so happy when I found it! But it did make
me think.
Are we ever going to be ‘apped’
out? Maybe things were better when the device was simpler. I watched an
interview on the TV this morning with a mobile phone developer and a designer.
When the video makes it to YouTube I will upload it to this blog. (YouTube now
there is another topic, the ability to find a video on any subject we can think
of) The interview was about the latest mobile that these two men were developing.
A phone for a very small market it must be said, but a market none the less. The
phones we made out of gold and silver and are priced between €9000 and €7000. They
will have no apps, no camera, no nothing!! It just has the ability to make and receive
calls. The way they plan on marketing the phone is that it will never break and
that you will never need to buy another phone because you won’t be disappointed
with the product.
We will have to see if the no app
phone does take off in this fast paced world of gadgets and technology.
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