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DEL.ICIO.USA cellular disaster
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m not a fan of cellular phones. Like most everyone else, I own one. And the junk drawer at home is full of discarded models. My wife is a real estate agent and she spends so much time using one that I worry that her ears will get flattened out. For her, maybe for you, they are a necessary evil.
I remember - working at newspapers - using the earliest models. They reminded me of the radios we carried around in the Army. I’d pack a big satchel with a whip antenna all attached to a regular telephone handset. I’m operating by memory here but - because of the big battery required - I think those things weighed about five pounds.
Today’s cells are tiny, of course, but even more aggravating. At work, it’s not uncommon to be in the elevator while two different people hold personal conversations via cellphone. You have to wonder what’s so important that it can’t wait 2 minutes until they reach a regular phone in the newsroom.
I’m glad to see that I’m not alone. John Dvorak, a technology writer who has been a favorite of mine for many years, has a long rant about cellphone here.
Look, I know they’re not going away. But maybe because mine is ringing right now - and it’s not daylight yet - Dvorak’s column touched a sore spot.
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By Claude
March 27, 2007 5:49 PM | Link to this
There are a lot of technologically savvy people who just don’t like cell phones. I wouldn’t own one myself if it weren’t for the fact that payphones are rapidly disappearing.