My Mobile and Me 📱

What is your relationship with your phone?

I don't think I can deny that I love my mobile phone.  It has become a significant part of my life as you can do so much with it.  It's always by my side and I'd feel lost if it was missing.

I don't use it for anything unusual, in fact I hardly have any Apps on it.  For me, it's mostly used for: 

• Phone
• Camera
• Messaging
• Email
• Browsing
• My Calendar
• Banking
• News Apps

It doesn't rule me.  I have recently turned off the notifications for emails as I was becoming a slave to them.  It also auto silences at 10pm until 9am each day. During silent time it has a few numbers which can break through to get me at any time: my mother, my other half, my sister, carecall for my neighbour.

I was a relatively early adopter of the mobile.  My first one, in 1993/4, was affectionately  known as the Mars bar phone.  I don't ever recall the chocolate bar being that size, but I guess it was the more rectangular style of it that earned the nickname.  Officially it is the Sony CM-H333.  I then moved onto the Motorola MicroTAC II -- I still have it.

I knew very few people with mobile phones, and texting was quite a novelty.  You could only send a text message to someone on the same network as you.  Thankfully that has changed and we can message all over the world in a nano-second.

I had various other mobiles in the following years, but like most people I immediately gravitated to the original iPhone in November 2007 when it launched in the UK.  No one can deny it was a game-changer of a device.  You could do so much more, and with a decent web browser it opened up an even bigger world.  Some earlier phones did have a basic web browser, but they relied on a simplified website to display content. 

I stuck with Apple for many years, upgrading to the latest device.  However, I eventually wanted out of their eco-system, which is quite restrictive.  I was also curious about Android style phones, AND they were cheaper. 

Fast forward to now, several Android phones later, and I have a RealMe 6 Pro running Android.  It came out in late 2020 so I guess I got it not long after that.  It does everything I need it to do.  It has four camera lenses -- one is 64 mega-pixels.  My DSLR camera doesn't even have that and can't slip in my pocket!

I realise the RealMe is coming up to four years old, but honestly I have no need to upgrade.  What else do I need?  All the latest phones just add gimmicky bells and whistles.

What do you have?

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