Tuesday, 31 August 2004

Michael’s mobile at last

Listening to:

Louis Armstrong, Put ’em down blues.

I acquired a mobile phone over the weekend. I’m now able to annoy people by loudly saying “Yes, I’m on the train.” Of course, people will be particularly annoyed by this because there are no trains in Canberra, making the claim a shocking lie. (Claiming there are no trains in Canberra is a slight exaggeration itself, but not much of one: there is a service to Sydney, but there are no more than two a day.)

I have a Samsung X100, and think it’s pretty cute. I can see it’s not quite the be-all and end-all of phones. For example, I don’t think there’s any way to get it to synchronise its phonebook with external sources of information. There are much fancier models out there, but this one was cheap.

Number available on request.

Comments

My favourite "I'm on the train" cell-phone story has a young man/teenager walking down the street. His cell-phone rings, he answers, and says, "Yeah, I'm on the bus."

Posted by: Jamie at September 1, 2004 07:44 AM