Today, I finally got round to upgrading my phone. I've been with Vodafone from more than ten years now, and I've always been very happy with their service. The only thing that annoys me is that my current contract cycle is 18 months in length. By the end of that amount of time the average phone is pretty much falling to pieces in my pocket.
I'm guessing that I am not they probably call a heavy-duty user. I know that makes me sound like some kind of crazed addict, and I have to say the comparison is not entirely inappropriate. Not only do I tend to leave my phone in my pocket, rattling around with keys and coins, I constantly fiddle with the damn thing. My last phone was a clamshell, and after I had flicked it open and shut about a million times the only thing it was good for was swatting flies.
So this time I've gone for a rough and tough Nokia 5500. This is the Fort Knox of phones. Made exclusively of toughened plastic, rubber and steel, it's the sort of thing you could take to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and drop depth charges on all day. Afterwards it would still be full of battery and quite a fit for a game of mobile Sudoku. The only downside is that it is a little on the chunky side by the standards of modern phones. That's a price I'm quite willing to pay for something that is actually going to stay the course.
I'm guessing that I am not they probably call a heavy-duty user. I know that makes me sound like some kind of crazed addict, and I have to say the comparison is not entirely inappropriate. Not only do I tend to leave my phone in my pocket, rattling around with keys and coins, I constantly fiddle with the damn thing. My last phone was a clamshell, and after I had flicked it open and shut about a million times the only thing it was good for was swatting flies.
So this time I've gone for a rough and tough Nokia 5500. This is the Fort Knox of phones. Made exclusively of toughened plastic, rubber and steel, it's the sort of thing you could take to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and drop depth charges on all day. Afterwards it would still be full of battery and quite a fit for a game of mobile Sudoku. The only downside is that it is a little on the chunky side by the standards of modern phones. That's a price I'm quite willing to pay for something that is actually going to stay the course.
