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The phone is dead! Long live the phone!
Feb. 29th, 2008 09:14 pmI bought a cell phone on December 31st, 2000...a Sanyo 4500 that has remained my constant companion until today.
It has travelled tens of thousands of miles, visited other continents (it went to Australia with me--I didn't actually use it there, but I needed it in the airport when I returned), and seen amazing things. It's been my lifeline when I was two thousand miles from home and my car had smashed into a railing in Arizona and I was forced to stay in Prescott for four days. It's been my beacon, my heartline, my connection to my friends and my family.
When I purchased it, it was a pretty advanced piece of equipment. It could access the web and text message, though I never did use those services because of the expense. It had an exceptional talk time for the time period--over three hours. I once left it on standby for five days.
( Goodbye, dear friend )
It survived being dropped (hence the wire keeping the battery attached), and seven years of heavy use. I will miss you, sweet, sweet phone.
Alas, it's so out of date that they weren't able to transfer the contents to the new phone, so I will be reprogramming the new phone (a Sanyo Katana DLX) all weekend. (Stop laughing,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rook543.) I'm looking forward to its features (I've already text messaged, lol)...especially the fact that, because it's a flip-phone, I won't have to worry about not seeing incoming calls because I've accidentally pushed some buttons. I will miss the old phone's presence, though--it was a nice, sturdy phone.
It has travelled tens of thousands of miles, visited other continents (it went to Australia with me--I didn't actually use it there, but I needed it in the airport when I returned), and seen amazing things. It's been my lifeline when I was two thousand miles from home and my car had smashed into a railing in Arizona and I was forced to stay in Prescott for four days. It's been my beacon, my heartline, my connection to my friends and my family.
When I purchased it, it was a pretty advanced piece of equipment. It could access the web and text message, though I never did use those services because of the expense. It had an exceptional talk time for the time period--over three hours. I once left it on standby for five days.
( Goodbye, dear friend )
It survived being dropped (hence the wire keeping the battery attached), and seven years of heavy use. I will miss you, sweet, sweet phone.
Alas, it's so out of date that they weren't able to transfer the contents to the new phone, so I will be reprogramming the new phone (a Sanyo Katana DLX) all weekend. (Stop laughing,
rook543.) I'm looking forward to its features (I've already text messaged, lol)...especially the fact that, because it's a flip-phone, I won't have to worry about not seeing incoming calls because I've accidentally pushed some buttons. I will miss the old phone's presence, though--it was a nice, sturdy phone.