Mental Meanderings

The Conspiracy of Technology - Re: My Mobile

[Authors Note: For all those Australia-challenged readers I mean 'cellphone' or some other yanky term. Yeah, get over it, I'll always call it a mobile phone. It's a phone, that is mobile. DUH!]

Two of my mobile phones ringtones have become corrupted... I've no idea why but for the past few days I've been not hearing my phone ring because it's ringtone doesn't work. Today, after yet another missed text message, and after only realizing my phone was ringing because of the static coming through my desktop speakers I decided to check it out.

What could have caused a corrupted file on my phone? Does it have a nasty bug? Did it catch the flu when it got rained on recently? Did deleting a few of the crappy ring tones that came with the phone make the remaining tones lonely or something? I only deleted a few and only because I kept running out of space on my phone.

I don't understand that either. I mean I clear out my messages regularly (about as often as it tells me I'm running out of room) and while I have kept a couple I usually clear most of them and yet, each time it seems like I have less and less room.

What is it that takes up all that space? Does it have internet caches of my email from when I've WAP enabled to check my gmail account?

The phone is quite old by today's standards. I bought it about two years ago. *ponders* Actually perhaps it's more like three years ago. *ponders* No it must be only two because I'm pretty sure I got it after my ex left because it's all in my own name and I remember being concerned they might turn me down because of a lack of credit history.

Even at two years old it's pretty much considered a dinosaur because of the way technology moves. It's got most of the latest gadgets, WAP, MMS, SMS, Email, Camera, etc. Alas, it's only got three ring tones now only one of which still actually work but it's not been dropped in a toilet, or lobbed off a boat, or run over with a forklift (yes, three things friends have done to their phones in the past).

Anyway, two things have gone wrong with it so far and I'm holding out for the third. Perhaps it'll be something dramatic enough for me to decide it's time to upgrade. I've been on my contract long enough that my service provider would probably offer a free trade in if I asked.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother having a mobile phone. Then I remind myself it's because I never use my home phone. *chuckles* I hate calling people, I hate talking to people. SMS was the greatest invention ever! Phone calls conducted entirely in text. A writers dream!