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Day 2: When You Realise What You Miss… And What You Don’t Miss

motorola-8200 It 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. Read more

Experiment: Living Without Cell Phone

I am a fan of shiny gadgets. Actually, I like everything shiny except lip gloss. Recently, after more than a year with an Apple iPhone 3G I decided it were time to upgrade my phone.

Then the difficulty of life started: what upgrade to get? How will I be able to top the experience of the iPhone? There certainly can not be a better smartphone, user experience. Do I really want an iPhone 3GS? Actually I do want to wait for the NEXT iPhone, without then having to break the bank to get that model.

I started thinking and realised that 98% of my communication is done online. I am reachable by almost any online protocol, whether email, IM, Skype or Google Wave. My decision was helped by the fact that I had already sold my iPhone before even having shortlisted other models.

Here I am now, in my second day without mobile phone. Will I survive it? Read the complete journal here or follow the last 10 updates in the sidebar, complete with spontaneous status updates related to living without phone, a life without mobile phone in 2009.

0 comments November 12th, 2009
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Day 1: I barely noticed I have no cell phone

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. Read more

0 comments November 11th, 2009
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