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!!!)

I think it was Bill Thompson that was writing it and his opinion columns are very good. So he was saying that instead of stopping kids using their phones in classes they should be encouraged to use them.

As someone that is involved volunteering to help with Scouts the mobile phone normally is not an issue. They will get confiscated if seen by a leader because they can be very distracting so it got me thinking about what was being said in the article.

I understand what he was saying that they are a good aid to education otherwise know as the kids can google for the answers. But I also see the distracting side because phones can do so much these days not just phoning and txt’ing but all the games that can be played and pictures taken.

I do think that Schools probably need to embrace modern technology more, but I think this is happening slowly – like the interactive whiteboards that some schools are using. But as someone that grew up with the calculator my mental maths is not that good, does this mean that there will be an impact on our kids that only google for there answers.

It will be interesting to see how schools adapt as more and more modern technology is owned by kids. The iPhone probably has more cpu power than the first BBC I used at school.