Vintage Mobile Phones: Who's Still Using Them?

Noone except me, I think. Not even those Blangahdeshi/Indian construction workers.

Apologies for the lack of updates, I had a crazy and horrible week. On top of that, my LG phone broke down on me. First, my car tyre. Now, my phone. Sob!

Really sorry if I haven't been replying to emails or comments or queries, thousand apologies! I will try my best to reply them all today.

Anyways back to the topic of my phone, my LG Viewty's touchscreen conked out. Refused to work...


... so I finally sent the phone to the service centre yesterday, and they told me I have to leave it there for at least 3 working days. Luckily it was still on warranty.

Meanwhile, had to look for an alternative... 'cause I need to use a phone for work.

None of my friends or colleagues have a spare phone, thus I had to borrow my Mum's. It's a Samsung clamshell phone. Really savvy. I don't know the model though. Anyone care to help me with that?

Wait for it....

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Ta-dah! My Samsung "clamshell" phone for now. More pics...

I told ya it was a clamshell phone. Lol!

Bad reception? No worries...
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I brought the phone to work and became the butt of all jokes.

"How many pixels camera, Ying?"

"Bluetooth your ringtone to me!" (The ringtone by the way, is worse than a pager's)

"Erm... Ying, why ya bring a toy to work?"

"Wah lau eh... Drive car so big, then no money buy phone!"

"Can you SMS with that??" (Yes, I actually can.)

"If ya hold the phone sideways, people might think it's a new model..."

"Is that an antenna for GPS?"

"Is that a stylus?" (While pointing to the antenna.)

Jokes aside, old phones are damn sturdy lah. Drop them, dump them around, abuse them, sit on them, and they still survive til today. My LG Viewty? I only dropped it once but it's on a carpeted floor, I have never sat on it, I kept it in a phone pouch, gave it all my TLC, and it still conked out on me in less than a year.

But then again, SMS-ing with this phone is a HUGE pain in the ass. Now I have an excuse for not replying SMSes. Hehe.

After this incident I wanna change phone already!

To this:

Nokia N78

It has ugly buttons and that 'plasticky' look but I'm really wow-ed over by the functions :)

Shall get that this coming Xmas, or earlier, if I can afford it. Haha.

Updates to thesnappydresser by today! Stay tuned!