lozgti

From useful thing to must have for kids or poor people.Really gets my goat.Took me ages to find a phone that is well,a phone.Still has games on it All deleted.Nokia3120

Bleedin music,pictures,ringtones.The poor and the young seem to have an obsession with them.We are mobile phone mental.Been behind people in shops paying for goods who are having conversations and ignoring till staff.

Will this chronic phase ever wear out or will it continue forever?

Worst thing ever in this modern world.Bloomin hate them

(just annoyed because I saw my millionth person driving and using one.Great law that was.Everyone obeys it.Not )

speed demoness

I work in a shop and have had many a customer trying to ask me for a packet of cigs or the like whilst still having a conversation on a mobile phone!..it really winds me up as to why they couldn't wait outside until they had finished the convo.. or if already in the shop.. just ignore it.. you can ring em back.. or they'll ring you back !

wouldn't say designed around 11 year olds... I like to play games on my phone when I have nothing else to do in work.. or to give me a breather from what i'm in the middle of doing to break up the monotony.

as for it being a chronic phase.... technology moves on each and every day... i think they'll be around for a long time yet.

Can you remember what it was like before we all had mobile phones tho.... how on earth did we manage?? .... I'd say quite happily... if we went away.. no one could contact us... if we went shopping... no one could contact us..... if we went out in the car for the day...no one could contact us........ oh what bliss !!!!!

lightning101

My mobile looks nothing like an 11 year old

nathanb

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Get with the times old man!! LOL

SwissTony

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you are just not down with the kids man !!
they is wicked man....

speed demoness

'innit !!!!!!

lightning101

Anyway an 11 year old would have texted it like this:

FROM USEFUL THNG 2 MUST HAEV FOR KIDS OR POR RILLY!11! LOL GETS MAH GOAT2K1!!11 OMG WTF LOL ME AEGS 2 FIND A PHONE TAHT IS WELA PHONASTIL11!11!!! OMG WTF LOL HAS GMAS ON IT AL DEL3T3DNOKIA3120
BLEDIN1111111 DA111! OMG WTF POR AND TEH U SEM 2 HAEV AN OBSESION WIT THEMWE!111 OMG R MOBIEL PHONA MENTALB3N11!1! WTF BHIND PEOPL3 IN SHOPS PAYNG FOR GODS WHO R HAVNG CONV3RSATIONS AND IGNORNG TIL STAF
WIL1!11 THIS CHRONIC PHAES 3VAR W3AR OUT OR WIL IT CONTINU3 FOREV3R
WORST?!!??!!? OMG WTF THNG 3V3R IN THIS MODERN WORLDBLOMIN11111!!! OMG WTF HAET TH3M
(JUST ANOYAD B/C I SAW MAH MILIONTH PERSON DRIVNG AND USNG ONAGRAAT!!!!11!! LAW TAHT WASEVERYONE!!!1111 WTF LOL OBYS ITNOT1!!! WTF LOL )

speed demoness

aarrghh lightning nooooooooooooo
i've just got shut of my middle daughter for 2 days...(.doing a residential course with her school).. it takes me about 20 minutes to decipher what her texts actually read !!!!

Apparition

Know where you are coming from S D .
I , too , work in retail, and if one more person answers their damned mobile in the middle of a sales transaction I swear I'll shove it where the sun don't shine. It's the same scenario as the shop phone ringing in the middle of a transaction, I ignore it because the customer was there first. I'd only answer it if the customer said to do so, and then I'd ask the caller to hang on until I'd finished.
Comes down to basic manners, and thay seem to have evapourated with the arrival of the mobile.
Yve

Brendan Hughes

I'm very happy carrying a PDA that is phone, camera, picture album (useful to show baby photos ), mp3, video, GPS, word processor, etc etc etc.

I certainly don't have conversations while in the shop though.

ALi-B

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The mobile phone is the modern swiss army knife:

It's a:

Torch (which I use)
Stopwatch (well, maybe if I need to prove a 0-60 or sommat in a pub debate)
Timer (saves me burning my tea)
Calander that syncs without Outlook (very handy...pity about outlook though)
Calculator
Addressbook that again syncs (so I have phone full of e-mail addresses and no phone no.s )
Notebook - quicker to use the sound recorder
Task manager/to do list (syncs with outlook, just incase I forget what my job is)
Camera (well, you never know)
MP3 player (anything beats commercial radio)
RDS radio (ok, I never use that...see above)
Remote control for the PC (very handy to skip tracks when using media player to play MP3s and you can't be arsed to reach for the mouse)
WAP - never use it, but its there
Dictaphone/sound recorder - rarely use it except when arsing about
Modem (no point...just hi-jack somebody's wireless connection )

Oh yes, and it's a phone

CrisPDuk

If I get an illegible text off anyone, I just bin it

I have no intention of learning a new language just so that I can comprehend what an illiterate fcukwit is trying to say.

ALi-B

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I had a cracker of a text the other day.

"Hi, how are you, can you tell me where your dad's ashes are?"

I nearly died of combined dispair and laughter, as it was a serious text.

messiah

Not exactly a conclusive argument against having a 3m pixel camera or 4Gb of music though is it?

You can still ignore till staff on your pauper's Nokia 3120

I bet Nokia tune is your ringtone is it?

kammy

Complicated mobiles rock...what better way to impress a 'girl' than with your latest bling and ring tone.

Nokia 3210= no sexual desire
Get with it- Nokia N series.

Brendan Hughes

I disagree. The P910's plastic stylus is useless at getting stones out of a horse's hoof, and costs a lot to replace too.

J4CKO

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It does seem to be the ultimate ****** trinket, the flash mobile, the no nonsense type I know all have a battered 3210, battered as in scratched, not actually deep fried.

stevencotton

I'm still on my well-used 8310. The case is cracked and stuff but it still works. Thinking of going back to my mint 8210 but it only holds 10 SMS messages which is a pain.

I can't stand these do-it-all phones. I have two cameras, I don't want one on a phone. I want just a phone and not to have to pay for features I will never, ever use. I detest ringtones and that whole market. There seems to be a new fad, these phones with an awful, tinny loudspeaker built into them. Why do some people think others want to listen to their music on the train, or in a beer garden?

I just want a tiny, non-flip/folding phone and nothing else.

SiPie

Those times still exist

It's called the Power off button

My mobile phone is a tool for me to get in touch with someone should I need to and not a noose that hangs around my neck meaning that I can be contacted 24/7.

The conversation below frequently happpens:

A.N. Other...usually in accusatory tone
"I tried to get you all Tuesday, but your phone must have been switched off"

Me
"Oh yeah, that's cause it was switched off"

AN Other..
"Oh right, why? I mean what's the point in having a mobile if people can't get in touch with you?"

Me
Try leaving a message, you just never know your luck

lightning101

LOL - those are exactly my sentiments ^^

I have a home phone, but I don't answer it when I'm in my car, out drinking, or at work

matchmaker

Some fcukwit passed on my wifes mobile number to some of his friends by mistake instead of his own

So there we were last Saturday night watching X-Factor () when her phone rang. The only people with her number are me and our kids. I answered it........

Caller: "Is that Paul"
Me: "No, this isn't Paul. You must have a wrong number"
C: "Are you sure that's not Pauls phone?"
M: "No, it's my wifes phone. You have the wrong number"
C: "Do you know what Paul's number is, then?"


Then there was the time with her previous phone when she switched it on and got a voicemail.........

Caller: "Jim, it's Bill your next door neighbour. Come home at once - your house is on fire"

Brendan Hughes

Reminds me of the witty answerphone message - "Hi, we're not answering the phone right now as we're trying to avoid someone. Leave a message - if we don't ring you back, it was probably you."

ALi-B

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My local pub is conveniently situated in a mobile phone "dead spot" for reception - honest truth.

Sometimes the odd text straggles through, but they are easy to ignore

Dream Weaver

<geek mode>Sounds like a SE W800/750i?? </geek mode>

I have the same, and you're right it is the modern swiss army knife.

Its been a godsend for me getting a phone with MP3 player - makes waiting outside womens clothes shops, while the wifes trying stuff on much more entertaining

As for the original post, stop moaning

ALi-B

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Was it that obvious.

I was a cynic, it's predacessor was an 8310. w800/k750 changed that.

I wanted a tiny flippy/slidey phone so I don't dial 999, stored chat line no.s and ex gfs () by accident all the time, but none have the features,or if they do, are the size of a brick.

Bubba po

ALi-B

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My, The Proclaimers have aged alot

Bubba po

Imagine being the bloke on the right. His brother is handsomer than him.

lightning101

The guy on the left is thinking "something doesn't add up"

ALi-B

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They'd make you run 500 miles

Bloke on the left vouches for accuview contact lenses