I'm a certified cellphone gadget freak, amen and period.
I change my cellphone on average of 3 times within a year and this is my 7th year of tasting the fruits of mobility such as calling, surfing, texting SMS, MMS, EMS and using GPRS, 3G and other benefits such as having an organizer in your phone and also multimedia capabilities. I even try to mod my cellphones to the point where at times I have to resort to take it to the repair shop to resuscitate it back to life due to my constant software modifications here and there. A CELLPHONE is such an essential thing to have these days, one can’t help image a world without it, and lest I forget that I am living in the texting capital of the world where we single handedly promoted it to other countries to follow suit.
I can't help it, if there ever was a Cellphones Anonymous I'd be part of it and it's not easy being one, specially if you're living in a third world country and have a meager job and a drone ant’s life where financial priorities are opted to the basics: being food, mobility (commuting to and fro to work and home via the ever reliable PUJs) clothing and shelter. Owning gadgets such as the latest mobile fone or a full fledged library of an MP3 player or even a workable PC or to an extent a laptop would usually end up saving for it and wait for the price of which to drop at an alarming rate or to wait for it in vain in the hopes that your wishlist of a gadget just drop from your lap by grace or chance from the heavens or from generous benefactors which would be next to none. Having the urge to google over and want a cellphone every 2 months or so is nerve wrecking, to have to have a glimpse on the what’s new in the cellphone releases here every now and then and drooling over it in the malls when it is already available for purchase is next to hell on earth, one can really daydream of some evil scheme to acquire it and it is a feat in itself to hold the moment of buying a new cellphone or to trade it for a new one via your friendly neighborhood cellshoppe stalls of refurbished, second hand and the occasional brand new units (imported from some nearby country without the local BIR, Customs or NTC’s knowledge) popping up like mushrooms here and there. And when the urge is satiated and the phone of your dreams are now at your behest only to find out after a couple of weeks or a month or two that that cellphone has all the same basic functionalities as your previous ones, that it can make a call, text SMS and send stupid MMS or have useless 3G, all packaged somewhat slightyly different from your old ones and call it new and improved and you can’t help feeling bored and demystified by your newly purchased unit and then again the feeling sets in, the urge for something new to suite ones fancy and the cycle comes to anew.
I change my cellphone on average of 3 times within a year and this is my 7th year of tasting the fruits of mobility such as calling, surfing, texting SMS, MMS, EMS and using GPRS, 3G and other benefits such as having an organizer in your phone and also multimedia capabilities. I even try to mod my cellphones to the point where at times I have to resort to take it to the repair shop to resuscitate it back to life due to my constant software modifications here and there. A CELLPHONE is such an essential thing to have these days, one can’t help image a world without it, and lest I forget that I am living in the texting capital of the world where we single handedly promoted it to other countries to follow suit.
I can't help it, if there ever was a Cellphones Anonymous I'd be part of it and it's not easy being one, specially if you're living in a third world country and have a meager job and a drone ant’s life where financial priorities are opted to the basics: being food, mobility (commuting to and fro to work and home via the ever reliable PUJs) clothing and shelter. Owning gadgets such as the latest mobile fone or a full fledged library of an MP3 player or even a workable PC or to an extent a laptop would usually end up saving for it and wait for the price of which to drop at an alarming rate or to wait for it in vain in the hopes that your wishlist of a gadget just drop from your lap by grace or chance from the heavens or from generous benefactors which would be next to none. Having the urge to google over and want a cellphone every 2 months or so is nerve wrecking, to have to have a glimpse on the what’s new in the cellphone releases here every now and then and drooling over it in the malls when it is already available for purchase is next to hell on earth, one can really daydream of some evil scheme to acquire it and it is a feat in itself to hold the moment of buying a new cellphone or to trade it for a new one via your friendly neighborhood cellshoppe stalls of refurbished, second hand and the occasional brand new units (imported from some nearby country without the local BIR, Customs or NTC’s knowledge) popping up like mushrooms here and there. And when the urge is satiated and the phone of your dreams are now at your behest only to find out after a couple of weeks or a month or two that that cellphone has all the same basic functionalities as your previous ones, that it can make a call, text SMS and send stupid MMS or have useless 3G, all packaged somewhat slightyly different from your old ones and call it new and improved and you can’t help feeling bored and demystified by your newly purchased unit and then again the feeling sets in, the urge for something new to suite ones fancy and the cycle comes to anew.
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