My Mobile Heartaches
It’s Valentine’s Day once more and if you’re reading this tonight, then I’m assuming you had bad luck scoring a date. My condolences to you then. If it’s any consolation, I’d like to take this opportunity in cyberspace to tell you that all men are asses, while all women are too picky. Heh.
Today is the day of hearts, but it is also the day of remembering past heartaches as well. These “what could have beens” will always become the permeable stuff which we will bever be able to shut off from our minds. Now being a geek, I’ve had my past heartaches with women and gadgets alike. The women - well, there were times when I felt used, abandoned, elated, and lifted above my bitter existence. They were the best of times and the worst of times as well.
But the gadgets - well, the phones always provided me with a sense of being complete. I was secure with my phones. I was confident. I was complete.
Back in the old black and white days my first real love was the Nokia 3210. She was the sexiest thing. She didn’t have an antenna. She had moving graphics. She had predictive text. She was fabulous. But first loves are always puppy love, and as I grew older I wanted a phone that had more ambition.
However, something came along the way - I was bribed. And with serious relationships come those that were not serious and I had my flings with two Nokia 3310’s that were given to me. I flirted with each one of them. I had two because .. well .. I could. They were given to me as a gift on separate ocassions. And when you’re young, well, two is better than one.
After a while though, you get tired of flings. And just like that I was temped to upgrade my standards to something more colorful. You see, free is good. Noncommital is good. But as you mature, you’d want something with a lot more character. Something more “me” .. and I opted for the Nokia 3650, the most eccentric S60 phone ever invented at that time.
Damn this phone was eccentric. It was artsy, it was extreme and believe it or not, I kept this phone for more than 2 years despite the weird wheel design. The fact that it was S60-based made it even more powerful. I hacked my way through the limited video capacity and enhanced its video recording time. I downloaded applications to fill the 32MB MMC card. Man, 32MB was a lot then.
The 3650 was by far my longest phone but we had to part ways by necessity. There came a time I was down on cash and I needed all the help I could get to pay bills. In the end, the phone was one of the items that would give heftier returns. So there. One day I sold it. And paid my bills. And wept in the corner of my room.
Depression soon turned to bitterness and bitterness turned ot angst. And to rid myself of this burden I went on again to play short-lived relationships with other phones. I can barely remember them - a Mitac Mio whom I had a one night stand with, a Tanager E200, and even a Nokia 6310i. But these memories were short-lived, in the same way that they ended in a fit of passion.
Then came this.
And my pile of games. Life was looking good. I was playing every night. Tomb Raider. SSX. Splinter Cell. The Sims. Damn my mobile life got a hundred times more exciting. But that was until the N-Gage QD decided to do really weird stuff like hang in the middle of a save, reset in the middle of a call, and just .. die while in my pocket. Sent it back to Nokia once. Sent it again twice. Thrice.
Third time’s a sucker. And never again. So the games are still with me and the phone dead. I’ll probably have it fixed one day, when I decide to get back to playing games while commuting. The N-Gage was a wonderful piece of work though. She was pretty, light and the perfect companion. But what she lacked was stability. And I hate relationships that end up in the gutter.
At this point, I decided to give up on Nokia. It was like giving up on a friend who would set you up with people from the same circle of friends. So I decided to make my own path and took a risk with what some people were calling the Zen of Phones. I jumped ship from the comfort zone of the “0″ spacebar and made my way into the user interface of SE.
And I had no regrets. She rarely threw fits. We always connected. This was the perfect relationship, friends. I was in a new comfort zone of stability, being able to pair her with my beloved iBook, sending SMS seamlessly via Bluetooth and becoming immune to rampant S60 viruses.
Everything was great. I loved her and she loved me giving herself unconditionally even if I dropped her at times and scratched her sexy silver surface.
Everything was great.
Until.
She.
Came.
Along.
She seduced me, Ms. BenQ P50.
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2 opinions for My Mobile Heartaches
bing
Feb 15, 2006 at 9:09 am
You are awesome! The allegory of women and mobile phones is very interesting. I have never been particular about a phone, I have been with my 5110 for 3 years and now with my SE T237 for 2 years too. I wonder if that translates to my being unparticular with my men too…having the only criterion of: “it works!”
Jayvee
Feb 15, 2006 at 6:38 pm
i have several lady friends who are particular about their phones. but at the end of the day they usually decide to stick to what they have.
i think its the hassle of having to redo your address book over and over again. :)
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