As I’ve mentioned before, I have a cell phone that’s just a cell phone– no data plan, no camera, no nothing. It’s also a few years old, so the battery life isn’t what it could be. I was a little concerned about that, so I made a point of plugging it into the charger last night before bed.
And I am absolutely sure that it’s still charged, mostly because I think it’s still plugged into the charger in Niskayuna. Which won’t do me a whole lot of good here in Austin…
On the bright side, sine it’s just a phone, I’m not missing that much, unlike most people with fancier phones, who rely on them for everything. And I’m unlikely to have done anything stupider than that, so I can stop worrying about what the disaster of this trip will be.
I also have a cell phone that is just a cell phone. I even got a touch of street cred when someone commented that such phones are popular with drug dealers, assassins, spies and people operating under cover. Widely known as “burners” because they are disposable, and not registered to any name they are tools of anonymity.
I figured mine is just a cheap way of maintaining a phone connection in case anyone needs to reach me. The 007 cache is nice but it wasn’t what I was going for.
My biggest problem with the phone is forgetting to carry it. I associate phones as something that sits on a desk and I answer if I’m around. If not they call back. I refuse to set up ‘answering’.
This, as it has been pointed out many times, makes me a dinosaur and Luddite. In addition, I assume, to being a shadowy figure who just might be into ‘deep stuff’.
What’s a cell phone?
I, too, have a cell phone which is merely a cell phone. It’s currently on its second battery (the first one shorted itself out a while back). The reason I have it is because I noticed that pay phones were disappearing throughout the land, and the shuttle service we typically use when flying out of Boston requires us to call in once we have arrived and have claimed any checked baggage. I’m such a dinosaur that my mother had a cell phone for about a year before I got one.
I have yet to buy a cell phone, but think I will need to before I go to a conference or something like that: it’s not that people haven’t been able to successfully meet up in the evenings, and so forth, before there were cell phones, but now that most people have cell phones, cell phone users have pretty much given up on any non-cell-phone way of keeping in touch. Searching around for a pay phone to make a long distance call to someone’s cell phone is just a really stupid kludge.