My Favourite Gadget

In this day and age, where can you go without being assaulted by ads about the latest gadgets? Television, newspapers, internet … there is no place for you to escape.

A friend came over from Indonesia and I showed her a picture of my daughter that is on my phone. She told me how amazed she was by the good quality of the picture considering the phone is ‘old’.

My Nokia 5320 works perfectly all right. Sending texts, receiving calls, taking pictures — all the features are working properly. I don’t need to change my phone to follow the trend.

My friend told me that she needed to change her current phone to an iPhone soon, as well as her 11 year-old son’s phone. She is not the only one; almost everybody around me says the same. What gets me is that they think that there is something wrong with you if you don’t go with the flow. I can afford to buy an iPhone, I just don’t need one.

I can send tweets and update my status from my computer. I don’t need a phone that provides hourly weather reports or games. And I certainly don’t want to watch videos or play music on one. I prefer to take pictures with my camera, using Photoshop or Gimp to edit them. Without a doubt, they look better than the ones tampered with by Instagram filters.

Everybody is different. Me, I just want a phone. As far as I’m concerned, the internet or whatever it is that connects me to the world outside can be turned off when I don’t need it. I have plenty to occupy me inside and outside the home. Nobody can say that I’m ‘behind the times’ just because I don’t keep up with (or buy) the latest gadgets.

Well, at least my favourite gadget still hasn’t changed: Inspector Gadget — he always makes me laugh — and one thing is for sure, he wouldn’t care that I’m using an ‘old’ phone.