Saturday, 22 February 2014

New phone

So I got a new smart phone. Some of my colleagues are still naively awaiting the day that we will all get one for free from our employer, but I don't really think that's ever going to happen, and if it will I will probably be in an employee category that doesn't get one. Also, I would be devastated to get a nice shiny new smart phone that isn't really mine and that I can't really play games on or install other nice apps on because it should be professional and nonsense-free. So I got a new one myself.
I got my first smart phone for free with my phone subscription, and it was new and shiny and marvellous with its touch screen and key board, and really it was actually already outdated when I bought it, which means that after 2.5 years the battery kept dying on me and I couldn't actually update the software anymore because my phone was too old to understand it. I had the same problems with the two (non-smart) mobile phones I had before that: kept buying the things I like, but those things had already gone out of style, which is why I could get them cheaply, but also why they wouldn't function properly anymore after a couple of months.
So this time, I wanted do things differently.
I bought a phone that has only been on the market for 3 months, the newest type in a very popular series, so that several friends and co-workers went 'ah, you have the same one as I do, only the newer version'. Which felt like I'd spend my money wisely, because this time it definitely won't stop functioning properly before I'm actually done with it.
On the other hand, having this very shiny, very new, very expensive (okay, could be worse, but quite expensive) thing makes me kind of anxious. I was never really worried about losing or dropping my old phones (I have in fact never lost or dropped them, so it wouldn't have been a very rational fear), but somehow I feel like I am more responsible for this one because it was more expensive. And because it is newer. And because I made the decision to buy this one much more consciously than with the previous ones, where I just went 'oh, keypad, I like it!'.
I'm not one of those phone-obsessed people that always wants to have the newest and fastest thing, but now I kind of feel like one because I'm so overly attentive to this one.
But it will pass, I know. In a couple of months there will be a newer, shinier version, and anyway, I tend to forget what things cost me pretty quickly, which is a pretty good financial survival instinct. But the next thing I got after choosing which phone I wanted was a protective case. Which went on almost before I got the phone out of the box. And which will probably save me many more anxious moments to come.

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