MOBILE OR MORE BILE??

Man I miss the days back in the 90’s when mobiles were simple.  And they were so freakishly expensive, sophisticated and heavy that you just had a whole lot of respect for them!  I remember how I used to dally with my dad’s mobile.  IT was the good old Nokia 2110 GSM Phone 1994.  And I just love it!  And it cost 100’s of dollars!  It was as big as my arm, but it was real fun!

360 Degrees + 5

Yes the mobile sadly has turned full circle. It started off as a super sophisticated device back in the 80’s and evolved into something fun in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. But now with the era of smartphones and windows, mobiles have reverted to what they always were: bland, boring and benign. Infact they’ve become worse. The good old phones like my dad’s Nokia 2110 were at least easy to use, which is more than I can say for modern SQUATphones.

The Undisputed Classic

I also still think the Nokia 3310 is going down in history as the most simple and fun phone ever!!  I loved listening to the myriad of ringtones it had and trying to compose them!!  Yes tone, not TUNES… Cuz nobody can compose tunes.  Only professionals can do that. Move over ‘FOOLABOUT’ and ‘BEE’, its BLACK EYED PEAS, edited ringer 128 kbps.mp3

Who let the Fun Out!

Remember back when to when phones use to be fun! You could customize them, put on skins and what not. Then some genius down the line felt that phones are more for synchronizing with an exchange server, and not for fun. And doing so, sapped all the life out it!

G Pee RS
And to make matters worse, all this internet junk is now on our mobiles, the one last suite of sanctity we had in life.  The one last device that helped us keep in touch with our NEAR and dear, not just the NEAR and FAR!!  Now phones are all about 3G and the internet.  Smart phones, read my WHY THE INTERNET IS DYING are so uber stupid, that YOU NEED a degree in rocket science to operate them. The whole idea of using a phone, is to simplify life, not to make you even more jaded than you already are!  I can’t even imagine giving my dad a smartphone as a present now!  He’ll probably use it as a glorified paper weight!

Missing the mark… What mark, there was a mark?

For a while phones seemed like they were going in the right direction with players like Sony Ericsson.  I really liked, that’s right LIKED their phones, and I’ve even owned one.  Making it color and adding a picture browser and gallery and all that were kind of neat.  Iphone coming in about 7 years later after color phones also seemed to be a step in the right direction, bringing the human aspect back to phones, and was definitely a step up.  Yeah the Iphone did created 3 new problems for every 1 problem it solved.  But it still is pretty fun though! What ruined the fray are smartphones.

iPhone = iPhuel

Just when pocket pc’s and the whole smartphone concept was dying, the iphone stepped in actually adding fuel to smartphones even if being the exact opposite! Pocket PC developers thought, wait! Aren’t our products also touchscreen! Let’s ape the iphone with its black interface and still run it on our stupid windows platform!! And believe you and me, people are buying into the crap by the truckload!

THE MIDAS TOUCH

All this happened when we thought that phones have reached a plateau.  I wonder if all this was some carefully orchestrated elaborate deception!  Think about it, phones had kinda reached a ceiling. You added a 5 megapixel camera, mp3 player, expenses manager, email checker, word document functionality.  Now what?  Even increasing the mega pixel rating wasn’t roping in the consumers.  And the recession didn’t help matters.  Then Touchscreen turned out to be that midas touch!  Iphone helped kill that stigma attached to totting a touchscreen pda with a stylus geek image.

Maybe ‘I’ shouldn’t have

They totally revolutionized its interface, introduced the fat finger concept, broke the mold and built a whole new one!  I wonder if there was some secret meeting somewhere, the kind Microsoft usually has!  Whatever it is, it worked, because all our Sony Cybershots and Walkman phones seems obsolete and everyone is rushing out to buy HTC Touch Cruise, LG Cookie, Sony Experia and Google Android products!  It worked!  The mobile consortium HAD come out a way with a way to already tap the 100s  of millions of mobile users out there to change over to touchscreen phones! Now we have to put out with the unleash of oceanic crap iphone clones from people like the HTC windows consortium

Now I have an HTC S710, which is without a doubt the worst phone on the planet to ever embrace humanity.  The less said about it the better, why waste valuable server space.

Win – Dho’s…

Windows Sucks

Its not so much HTC than windows mobile.  The developers must’ve thought, OK we’ve already failed with Windows Vista, so why not take our flawed and crippled OS and port it to a phone and shove it down unsuspecting consumers throats.  Most people didn’t know what smartphones were but they did know windows… so why not marry the two and throw everybody off track.  My eyes already burning from the mud slung from my windows PC have now been gouged out by Windows mobile.

The most user unfriendly piece of code on the planet.  I totally agree with the guys a 100% CRUNCH GEAR – 10 things I hate about smart phones. Pick up a windows smartphone and you won’t even know how to get to the photos, videos and gallery!!  And trying to clone a iphone middle layer on windows crapola parabola white candy ass interface isnt’ gonna help matters.  Whatever happened to the good old sony ercisson themes which were really slick!! All said and done, I miss the good old Nokia 3310 and the times you lay on your bed playing archaic snake and trying to compose ringtones.

THE GOOD
Phones like the LG Cookie, heading a step back in the right direction of making phones fun. I got my hands on one recently.  I quite liked it actually and its cheap but has all the neat functionality of the iphone!!

THE BAD, THE UGLY
Like the guys at CRUNCH GEAR. said, windows mobile should be put to rest and all touch screen phones that have windows written on them should be nailed in a six feet under coffin where they rightfully belong. After using these phones, you’ll feel the smarts… and not the good kind.