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