long in the tooth

It doesn't seem that long ago that I got my (free) Nokia 8210—a discarded used mobile that with a new chip became my very own. It served me relatively well for the first half of its 14 month service, but latterly the screen has started to malfunction... apparently a known fault on this model. Anyway, it got to the point that the only way to use any screen-based functions (e.g. looking up someone's number) was to squeeze the phone quite hard just to the top left of the screen. When trying to txt, which takes (me) a little longer than just looking up a number, I discovered I had to squeeze so hard for so long that my hand would start to seize up. I began to wonder if this was such a great idea...

I still didn't want to actually buy a new phone though, so I just kept on using old faithful. Being on a pay-as-you-go plan I was never due a free phone upgrade, but here's the thing I've noticed: everyone else gets upgrades on a regular basis. And the phone companies never want the old phones back... Sure enough, after quite a while of people noticing my dilemma, and even another offer or two that didn't pan out, my friendly OT colleague Lisa arrived at work the other day with this little beauty. It's a Sony Ericsson t68m, not the latest model on the street maybe but a huge upgrade for me and thanks so much to her boyfriend for passing it on! At some point someone's cat decided to put a little more teeth into its Bluetooth capability, leaving matching bite marks on the front and back face of the phone (see top right). So I was hoping for a phone with a screen that worked, but got as well a colour screen and that so cool Bluetooth wireless networking. Thanks Lisa and your boyfriend! You rock. Now, I guess I'll just have to hope that maybe one day I'll have another Bluetooth capable device that it can network with.*

* hehe!