Wk 9 e-learning post: from telephone to mobile phone

"Contribute on the e-learning site some personal history about the use of phones in your household and the integration of the mobile phone into your everyday lives over the last 15 years. "

In the last 5 years I have come into contact with just about every phone that has ever been made. This is mostly due to having a boyfriend that has managed to lose or destroy an amazing number of phones- at least 20 in that 5 year period. He's had flip phones, slide phones, keyboard phones, camera phones, old phones, new phones, red phones, blue phones. Ever looking for a phone charger? He probably has the one you need. To his credit though, he did manage to hang onto his phone when someone attempted to mug him- apparently it was an interesting experience for the person he was on the phone to at the time.My own experience with losing a phone earlier this year was an interesting one. I decided not to replace it for a while in order to punish myself for the stupidity required to lose it the way I did (really it was more to save some of the money I lost along with it but you get the idea). I held out for about 2 weeks. I added the "upgraded" model of the phone I had lost onto my plan, only to discover that "upgraded" really meant "we took away some of the best features and made them be extras that you have to pay for separately. sucked in." I was a little annoyed, but at least it came in hot pink. The thing is, being without a phone made me less dependent on it, so I was able to lower my cap- losing my phone ended up saving me money. At my house we still have a couple of those really old brick phones with the tiny screens floating around somewhere. If mobile phones are anything like fashion they'll be super cool in the next couple of years. I find it really funny that my dad's work gave him a super-phone with everything you could possibly imagine on it, but he doesn't know how to send a text message. I think he would prefer to still be using the brick phone.