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Mobile hip

December 18, 2007 on 7:49 am | In Uncategorized |

OK I need some advice here.

This is my mobile phone.

Haha yes very funny, I bet you used to write for Seinfeld.

This phone has been a perfectly good $9.90 a month call-the-NRMA-if-the-car-breaks-down insurance policy for several years. And it’s a lot smaller than the one I had before it, which followed much the same design principles and colour scheme but was the size of a house brick.

Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to get away with that attitude much longer. Most of the students I teach are enrolled externally, and I guess they deserve to be able to use normal contemporary technology to contact me … which these days means texting. Email is, like, so 20th century.

Now here’s where I need advice. Is my lovely black half kilo phone old and smart enough to pass as retro chic? You know, like a VW Beetle or Rupert Murdoch. Or is it at that dangerous in-between age where it just makes the user look like a doddering old fool? Or worse, an economic under-achiever.

Ugh, I think I know what you are going to say. I guess I’ll have to pay a visit to the Telstra shop and give everyone there a giggle. They’ll all cluster around to look in silent wonder at what phones used to look like.

Actually, deep down I’ve been hankering for an excuse to buy one of those cool new Blackberries. I just hope whoever finds it is honest and returns it, because I guarantee I’ll leave it on a table somewhere within a week …