Does it make you happy to know how fast technology grows especially when it comes to wireless mobile phones? I remember having my first cellular phone. It was a bulky black box Motorola, and it was analog. Mobiline was the network (and if you don’t know, today it is now know as Smart) and it was postpaid. It was so big, it looked like the steel ice shaver that tinderas use to make the streetside halo-halo. It was only for calls, no text messaging. There wasn’t even an internal phonebook. But at that time, you can call anywhere as if you were in Star Trek. It felt that we were in the verge of space age. But that was the early 90’s. More than a decade passed, and 10 cellphone units later, my new mobile phone, a Samsung D900i, is slimmer, lighter and smaller, but jampacked with a lot of crazy features unlike my first Motorola ice shaver. It’s a little more expensive than the first one but one from the past can say that it’s a friggin’ bargain. Do you remember that the nokia 3210 was so “in” and used to cost around P12,000 but now you can buy them for less than a thousand pesos? I bought this new phone of mine just last year for the same price, and guess what? It’s no bargain. Why? Because unlike before, cellphone models were less and there were fewer brands in the market. Right now, it seems that every month, a new model shows up and your new phone then becomes a thing of the past so quickly that it’s bourgeois and it becomes cheaper as every day goes by, and you feel like you’ve been cheated with your money. Then you procrastinate that you should have waited a little longer for this new model to be in the market. Truth is, same goes for that model, even if you did wait to purchase it, it also depreciates like crazy. It’s a never ending cycle. So my advice, don’t buy those expensive phones unless you do have the money to, and just buy the phone that will make you a more productive, happier and content person. Good thing I find my new phone just as effective… but still I should have waited a little longer…
…stupid impulses.
{ I Feel: } irritated
Written by domz at 04:15 PM