#cellphones

I remember my first mobile telephone, which was more like an offensive weapon than a transitional object, an effective brick to break a skull with. It was prestigious to own one, however, for in those far-off days that now seem to us to be of a totally different historical epoch, they were comparatively uncommon, and anyone who had one could consider himself to be at the very cutting edge in the use of technology.

I despise myself for having become so quickly dependent on my phone. The reason for this is snobbery. When I see how dependent others are on their phones, how for example they look at them even during supposedly convivial meals (in the days when there were convivial meals still), I think how foolish and degraded they are, and how little I want to be like them.

A sensible person does not have to be permanently contactable, and indeed, when I look back, some of my happiest times have been the months in which I was totally incommunicado. My recent dependence on my phone, however, has revealed to me that I am exactly like others in my folly, no worse but no better. I am humbled, if not humiliated, by my phone.

Hello Kitty Corded Phone

Custom W43CA by Casio

C411ST by SANYO

C413S by Sony Mobile Communications

C410T by TOSHIBA

C407H by HITACHI

TS11 by SANYO

TP11 by Panasonic

NOKIA 9000 COMMUNICATOR

W41SH by Sharp

GRATINA KYF42 [Light Blue] by Kyocera

T008 [Frozen Blue] by Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications

Hello Kitty K688 Flip phone by Taimi

SH011 [Lavender Purple] by Sharp