Musings of a Software Engineer

After the phone in schools blog post that I did I thought I would have a look back at my phone history and some of the shocking phones I’ve had.

Phillips C12

Philips C12

This was my first ever phone and I got it free as part of setting up a student bank account!!! Shows the signs of the times when I was a student that mobile phones were just taking off and were cheap enough to give away, but not every child had one.

Nokia 3210
I think this was my second phone it was so long ago I cannot

Nokia 3210

remember either that or there has been so many nokias with the same sounding name that I get confused. Snake was the key invention on this one and you could spend hours playing trying to beat your friends rather than doing uni work!!!

Not sure what my next one was but I dont think it was a nokia which was a bad mistake I found because the battery life sucked on it. I then switched back to the nokias which had a much better battery life.

HP 6915
My current one is a PDA which is great to have all of my calendars syncing with Thunderbird and google calendar and google contacts. Its running windows mobile which I’ve not really grown to like that much. I also thought I would use the keyboard that it has more but I hardly use it which means I lost screen size.

What next?
I’ve had the HP for quite a while now I think its almost 2 years might be more which is a long time for a phone. So I started to look what I might get next and I think there are two phones out there at the moment that are probably the best on the market.

The Apple iPhone or the HTC Touch Diamond 2 (or possible the HTC Magic which is HTC + Android!!!)