Gadget addiction - part 1
Hand phone tale
My first technological inclination was with mobile phones. I’m pretty sure I was the first GSM user at the previous company I worked with. My first Globe mobile was an Ericsson GA628(P5,500), a single-liner phone… sleek… with cute protruding antenna niyahahaha… believe me, it existed!
My second phone was a Nokia 5110(P9,000). Superb font rendering.
Followed by Nokia 3210 (P7,000) (first phone with no external antenna) of which my first impression of the design was “lack of class, bald and bland”,
Nokia 3310(P9,000) (bar soap type phone) with backlight changed to blue… cool, I won’t be surprise if it will bubble like soap hehehe
Nokia 6150 (P6,000) (executive type).. asteg!,
Nokia 6210 (P7,000) -first with GPRS if am not mistaken - my first mobile web experience thru WAP!,
Nokia 3530 (P8,000) - first colored screen phone and it was like 56k colors? and of course, first polyphonic phone,
Nokia 6230 (P25,000)- first with expandable memory, mp3 player and radio WOW!,
I stopped at N6230 for like three years. Aside from being expensive, no new hand phone released ever hit my senses until the arrival of ASUS P525! (P32,000) wow… a handphone and a mobile PC in one.
All of which was either stolen or pick-pocketed hehehe. One thing I like with the experience though, was that I never ever witnessed as it happens… that must be horrible!
Obviously I lost my P525 again. So, I bought a $60 phone as a punishment for myself. For the next two months, I settled with Samsung C170 (S$60). No camera, no music, got FM radio though… 
- yet this was the thinnest phone in the market I’ve ever seen!
Then Asus P535(S$1,100) arrived with better features. A much improved P525 with built-in GPS. A powerful Windows Mobile 5 of which I hastely upgraded to Windows Mobile 6… ughhh! I guess I shouldn’t have.. 
Aside from microsoft installed softwares, I installed
1. Google Maps - for sattelite mapping, making my travel fun and secure,
2. MapKing - for detailed 3D map.
3. SKYPE - excellent audio. Why? Because it doesn’t use the internal speaker, so you have to lower down the volume for privacy sake hehehe..
4. Pointui Home - for iPhone feel graphic interface.
5. RTConfig - for security and mobile control of my phone data… if ever the end of its life would come too soon… that is losing it again. 
6. TCPMP - wonderful media player. And the ever reliable…
7. Pocket e-Sword - a Bible school on the go. Complete with commentaries, dictionaries, Bible translations, Greek and Hebrew Lexicon, and devotional ebooks.
This was my mobile journey for the last nine years. I experienced first hand the evolution of mobile technology.
That includes the transition from analog to digital signal transmission, the rise of sms popularity, network congestion, sms suspension due to excesssive usage (and yes, I am one of those who got a week of no-sms penalty-wehehehe), mysteriously losing mobile loads, mobile chat, web-based sms, sms based e-mails, and more.
In a lot of ways, it ministered to me and a few others. A number of friends were blessed and encouraged by the messages sent. I’ve even found new friends while able to strengthened the current. Obviously, it has some negative results too.
However, it accompanied me well in discovering more of me and more of the people around me. It wasn’t an easy journey, but it helped shape my perception.
And oh yeah… before i forget, this is all about cellphones hehehe…
see you on my next entry. God bless everyone!
