'Bred Crumbs
11.27.04
Flipping Off an Old Friend
11:37 PMThe time inevitably comes when even I, accused change-ophobe, move forward technologically. So, after three-plus years, I finally parted with this:
I've always liked that phone. It had a certain shape and heft that felt good in my hand, in a way that we probably shouldn't dwell on. It had sentimental value, too; Robbie had the exact same phone when we met. But Robbie had since traded in his blue relic for something shiny and silver and flippy, and it finally was time for me to, too.
Especially since the Clear key and a number key that's kind of vital to my voice-mail password had started working only intermittently. And double-especially since my provider, which never really lived up to the power its giant-phone-company name suggested and had a network so spotty I couldn't get a reliable signal in downtown San Francisco, just got absorbed by another, even less-appealing conglomerate that once upon a time wouldn't sell Robbie a cell phone without requiring a credit check. (He bade them bite him, more or less.)
And having just avoided getting merged at the workplace, I'm really so not keen on getting merged as a customer right now.
Enter the modern miracle of portable phone numbers, and the unresponsive provider is out of here, along with the Swedish phone maker. Nothing against them, except they were too sluggish in getting around to the whole flip-phone thing. Too sluggish for even me.
Plus I got a camera, and a speakerphone, and voice activation, and the address and schedule functionality that pretty much completes the obsolescence of my four-year-old PDA. Thus killing two dodos with one clam.
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