Well I have been using the Samsung Omnia ( SGH i900 ) for a year now and have grown to love it.
Indeed I have come to rely heavily on its additional features, my email and the handy little Route 66 Sat Nav.
It all came crashing down last week, though when the phone appeared to be maxing out its RAM – you see unlike the quite locked down Symbian Phones or the Apple OS which keeps itself removed from its applications in essence, Windows is more feminine about its associations, it takes every piece of software personally and creates registry entries for them all, cute but not without issues.
I am at fault, of course, I had started installing 3rd party apps with little care or thought and one of these must have got itself into the start up registry entry and then managed to loop through some memory intensive and insensitive routine.
A long labour of turning on, sudden realisation that hard reset was only option, spine tingling fear as I entered 1,2,3,4 and allowed the Omnia to erase ALL data on its 16gigs…..
Then, a joy, I loved turning it back on, it was like an old friend, I had forgotten just how fast it had been in its youth, even with SPB Mobile shell it leapt and danced in time with my finger taps – the baby is back and whirring.
I am even due an upgrade from Orange, who now will be offering the 3G iPhone and am completely ambivalent, sing my sweet Samsung
Happy as I am with my Nokia N95, I cant help but get dragged into the nasty conumerist world of upgrades.
Just because the new one is in a shiny matt black, just because it hs a slightly larger screen than the normal silver Nokia N95, just because it has 8gig of memory, I do not feel the need to start pining for an upgrade or looking upon my relatively NEW mobile phone as kind of past it, or old hat, or passe.
You see, I am an adult and I am capable of viewing and judging things based upon their intrinsic quality.
OK I have been circling in on the Nokia N95 for a while now, I have had it in my catanalotic ( consumerist ) sights since it was first released.
Yesterday I checked with a friend, Luke who had upgraded to the N95 some weeks previously, as to his general user experience of the mobile – he was most impressed; and he, like me, has preferred Sony Ericssons for years.
So, today, finally giving up with the sony Ericsson M600i which drops calls at will, I succumbed to the temptation which had been eating at me.
I turned the little Finnish beauty on (although the lady in the shop has told me that the battery will be ‘shafted’ if I don’t give it a full and uninterrupted charge first time round…), err. Anyway it is good, it has a beautifully named (German?) lens with a 5 megapixel camera, it has DVD quality video, a mobile with GPS!!, it has a WLAN sniffer, MP3 Radio, man Nokia have created a beauty here, this must be a loss leader in Nokia’s battle with Sony Ericsson – and Apple…
…more to come….
Around every January, when the days are long I start gettin a feeling of resltessness, of anticipation. I start counting the days not for spring, not for summer, but for my annual ( nearly ) mobile phone upgrade.
This is the time of year I can contact the operator and demand a shiny new mobile phone.
My most recent mobile phone upgrade was a Sony Ericsson M600i which has not been the best of my upgrades it must be said. I have been looking at the Nokia N95 as I have been trying to justify Mobile GPS for ages now and I am in need of a change, Mobile phones do, as recent advertising justify, become a part of you, they are your eyes and ears, your security blanket, your camera, your mp3 player, your organiser, your office, the list is both endless and ever lengthening
Also one of the best things about upgrades is getting a freebie, like a free bluetooth headset or carry case.
Now it is rarely that I have fallen out of love with the present device. It is that gorgeous moment which awaits the consumer, that unhurried unpacking, that slow initial charge and that sparkly crescendo when the device first is allowed to breathe its first breaths – under, of course, my watchful gaze.
The new mobile phone ( thank goodness for mobile upgrades as the hardware is obviously super subsidised by the network ) will then have to be fully explored. Every nook and cranny of its menu/ operating system will have to be clicked upon and investigated. I wil teach it everything about me. Soon the phone will dance and sing responsive to my every whim; it will know who to allow to call and when, it will know how to ring early morning, it will know how to catch my attention when I am in a meeting, it will have been personalised…….
And then I must wait a whole year again for my next upgrade
