subject: Spoilt for Choice with Mobile Phones and Gadgets Online [print this page] Spoilt for Choice with Mobile Phones and Gadgets Online
I don't pretend to know a lot about technology, except for the fact that it ought to work. Indeed as a relatively disinterested observer I note with a certain amusement that it is now a far more complicated business trying to switch on a television than it was in the days of my own childhood, when the object itself was a big, cumbersome wooden contraption with a small screen and a dial with some twenty or more numbers on but only three channels from which to choose.
Back in the early nineties I was the proud owner of a mobile telephone, some time before most people even knew there was such a thing. It was around the size and the shape of a half-brick and boasted an aerial of about nine inches in length which was essential to its successful operation. I carried it from place to place by clipping it onto my belt. Failure to remember it was there whenever I bent over to tie my laces meant severe pain between my ribs as the aerial dug sharply in.
And yet today there is so much about my now thankfully much more petite appliance that I haven't got around to even trying to understand. Without the help of my teenage twins I doubt whether I would yet have mastered the art of sending a text. It was with some confusion that I first took ownership of my latest gadget, devoid as it was of a keypad. Thanks to said twins I am now familiar with the concept of a touchscreen.
What I can understand though is that today's market boasts a range of phones, PCs, digital cameras and other gadgets like never before. A glance at what is on offer from any eShop tells me that I can now buy not only mobile phones, but unlocked mobile phones, SIM-free mobile phones and indeed all manner of adornments to same that will allow me to listen to music, access the Internet, set my alarm or play games to my heart's content.
The new technology that emerges onto the market with each new month that passes is truly amazing. The mobile telephone today is more a portable PC than a simple means of making and receiving telephone calls. I have flash drives possessed of more memory than my first desktop computer.
Whilst it might be difficult for some of us to keep up, the sheer pace and volume of advancing technology makes it affordable and readily available to all of us. Exciting times.
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