frankylicious » Living without cell phone http://frankylicio.us Geekiness with Attitude Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Day 2: When You Realise What You Miss… And What You Don’t Miss http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-2-when-you-realise-what-you-miss-and-what-you-dont-miss/ http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-2-when-you-realise-what-you-miss-and-what-you-dont-miss/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:32:36 +0000 franky http://frankylicio.us/?p=1438 motorola-8200It is a weird situation, one which actually takes me back to 1994 when I had my first mobile phone but no one else I knew had one. I was suddenly reachable no matter where I was but other than professionally no one would bother calling me and I couldn’t reach anyone other than on their landline.
I always have been a fan of mobile gizmos and even had a Swatch Pager (watch) so the step to get a very expensive mobile phone, mainly without any real functionality was rather normal.

I do not recall anymore if text messaging was already available in those day and if it were I never really used it before 1998, when I had an Ericsson T28 (yes those ultra-thin and light flip phones), mainly because no one else had a mobile phone or funds to regularly use one.

Swatch Pager watchToday I started noticing how quiet life without SMS is and I admit that at times I wanted to login to the provider’s online platform to both check and send text messages. Surprisingly I have many friends who are NOT online non-stop, friends with whom I mainly text. But using the online platform would defeat the purpose of the living without cell phone experiment. I can not promise that I will not surrender over the next days but today I realised that the mobile’s phone main usage sending text messages is and that life is different without.

Not really but texting IS addictive.
Basically the mobile phone has become an advanced Swatch Pager.

]]> http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-2-when-you-realise-what-you-miss-and-what-you-dont-miss/feed/ 1 Day 1: I barely noticed I have no cell phone http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-1-i-barely-noticed-i-have-no-cell-phone/ http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-1-i-barely-noticed-i-have-no-cell-phone/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:56:22 +0000 franky http://livingwithoutcell.wordpress.com/?p=12
    This was the first day without mobile phone and to be honest, I barely noticed it. of course, life has been a lot more quiet, without constantly incoming text messages but all in all, I did not notice a huge difference of life standard or quality.

    I had to grin when I was watching the noughties… was that it when they announced that texting was the number one for the ending decade. Of course they are right and probably more than broadband has done for our culture, society, texting has changed a lot more.

    But all in all, except for the odd moment when I wanted to check what was on TV (I love the tvguide.co.uk app [iTunes link]) it was a day just like any other and except that one time I wanted to make a call I could not have told that something had changed.

    ]]>     http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/day-1-i-barely-noticed-i-have-no-cell-phone/feed/ 0     Hello world, I sold my shiny iPhone http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/hello-world-2/ http://frankylicio.us/living-without-cell-phone/hello-world-2/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:11:04 +0000 franky http://frankylicio.us/general/hello-world-2/ Today I sold my shiny and beloved iPhone 3G. I do not have a new phone yet and don’t plan on getting one for a while.

    Is it a conscious decision? Yes and no. Do I want a new phone? Yes but I can not decide on which model, actually I must be honest and other than the iPhone, DROID and Palm Pré I even am not aware of any other models available.

    Here I will daily report how life without cell phone is.

    Will I survive it? How will I live life without texting with gorgeous ladies all the time.

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