| Cell Phones - or Mobile Phones, | | | | meal, the recipient informing the caller |
| depending on which part of the world you | | | | where they are and what they are eating. |
| reside in. I wonder, is it possible to | | | | Who said the art of conversation is |
| go anywhere in the world without seeing | | | | dead?On a more serious note, cell phones |
| one of these instruments. I am a | | | | can also be a lethal weapon in the wrong |
| resident of the Oceania region and I | | | | hands. How so I hear you say? How many |
| look upon cell phones with a mixture of | | | | times have you been driving and seen the |
| humour, disdain, irritation and I guess, | | | | "one-handed driver" with cell phone in |
| a little admiration.This technology | | | | the other hand having an extended |
| permits us to communicate with each | | | | conversation while travelling at the |
| other from almost any place on earth. | | | | speed limit on the freeway? Thankfully, |
| So long as you pay the money to your | | | | most civilised societies have banned |
| provider you can make a call to your | | | | this crazy practice.Don't think that by |
| landline home telephone from anywhere, | | | | reading this article that I am anti-cell |
| using "agents" within the country you | | | | phone. I most certainly am not. I find |
| are visiting.As with everything, | | | | that having the phone to hand can be |
| technology improves(?) every day. So it | | | | more than useful in emergencies. I am |
| is with cell phones. I am sure it won't | | | | only making tongue in cheek remarks as a |
| be long before we can put them on a key | | | | little nudge in the ribs of the world of |
| ring! It doesn't seem such a long time | | | | cell phone users.Which brings me to my |
| ago that my son had a phone that was | | | | conclusion, we all know that this type |
| about the size of half a house brick, | | | | of phone, as with all other commercial |
| and if you were going to try to clip it | | | | products, is there to make money for the |
| to your belt buckle, there was a | | | | manufacturers, retailers, providers and |
| likelihood that your trousers would | | | | give pleasure and convenience to the |
| finish up around the ankles.Pricing, | | | | users. And so be it.My final and I |
| naturally, has made cell phones much | | | | consider the most amusing thing I have |
| more accessible to the general public | | | | seen quite recently with cell phones, |
| and evidently this suits the younger | | | | concerned an advertisement for a Nokia |
| members of our society. Although it | | | | phone (or was it Motorola). Anyway, a |
| still somewhat amazes me that even with | | | | list of advantages for this particular |
| prices being quite reasonable, how is it | | | | model were proffered for the public: |
| possible for schoolchildren to afford | | | | camera, message service, make a cup of |
| what is basically still an | | | | tea, all sorts of things. What was |
| accessory?From an irritating point of | | | | evident was that the SIXTH item on the |
| view, and not wishing to sound pedantic, | | | | list of the selling points was the first |
| I find it somewhat invasive to overhear | | | | reference to actually making a telephone |
| a conversation on a cell phone, say in a | | | | call!!Ah, what wonderful times we live |
| restaurant, while enjoying a pleasant | | | | in!! |