Of Handphones and Interests

My handphones...owh, forget about it. They are certainly not as advance as yours. Believe me.

I am currently using two nokia phones: Nokia 1200. One phone was bought sometime in late 2007 and the other phone was bought early 2008. The former costs RM 148 and the latter costs RM99. Pretty cheap, ha? But, i really love those phones. They are strong, and according to my friend, that phone can be used in shooing the dogs away. Would you believe that? He he he...

Well, i would love to get a new handphone, but then i think again. Do i really need those phones? I don't think so, dear. This handphone is more than enough for me. Though my phone may look ancient, but i still it is still the best phone to be owned.

What phone do my friend use? Ok let's see: Widura (www.widura.net) uses Nokia xxxx, Fadzida Hanim uses Nokia 3310 (hiks hiks), Azrul Irzuan uses Blackberry (or the likes of PDA), Ayul is using Sony Ericson, Umar is using Nokia PDA (i don't even know what model it is)!

Well, i am so outdated, aren't i? But then again, with greatest respect to the above-mentioned friend of mine, i don't find satisfaction in using multi-purpose phones. i don't know why. i guess i am so clumsy when it comes to caring and maintaining my phone. Ha ha...

That is why i always uses my friends' handphone (credit to Widura) whenever i wanted to snap my picture. Well, Wie, i hope that your husband won't be jealous of me, yeah? ;-) Well, that was when i was in my previous office. Now that i move to another company, i ain't got a friend like Widura, whom i can simply grab her, like it was mine, and do with everything with it.

Let's recount my instance with this friend of mine, Wie. I met her way back in July 2008, when i started working at this company, M. This friend of mine, is like a big-sister to me. She's a nice lady. When we were colleagues, she always lend me her phone (well, most of the time, i uses her phone, anyway) to send messages, snap pictures, making calls to my friends whenever i was out of credit. thank goodness that she uses a bill. But, i can't keep doing that sort of thing forever, can i? i needed to grow up and started using bills if i ever gonna do that... ;-)

Anyway, thanks Wie for all the hospitality, especially when it comes to your handphones. Oh yes, i have NEVER ever read any of your messages in your inbox, so rest assured of that. I do respect people's privacy and i don't want my privacy to be intruded too!

Anyway, i am now using two lines: Maxis and Celcom. What are the differences? I honestly don't bloody know, dear. But here's what i can tell you: Maxis is probably the best when it comes to messages and SMS and Celcom is probably the best when it comes to making calls.

Well, for my maxis phone, i am using i mainly for personal purposes: like sending text messages to my close friends, families and my lecturer. For Celcom handphone, i normally use it for work-related purposes. I use it to send messages to my students, my colleagues and to others.

Simple calculation and monitoring shows that i spend a lot for my Maxis phone than Celcom. The reason being is that my Maxis is a Hotlink plan and my celcom is a University Plan. What is the difference? Well, generally, the university plan (otherwise commonly known as U-pax) is designed specially for university students whose age is below 25 years old. U-pax plan charges 1 sen for sending messages from Celcom to Celcom and 5 cents from Celcom to other network. In contrast, Maxis charges 5 send for each SMS sent from Maxis to Maxis and 15 cents from Maxis to other operators. Well, whatever the rate may be, be it high or low, it is still cheap to send text messages.

Back to my phone: it has a low memory for storing SMS and contact numbers. For example, for my phone, i can only store up to 81 messages in my inbox, about 15 messages in my sent items and a couple of messages in my draft folder.

And no, my handphones cannot snap any pictures nor even listening to any musics. The ringtone is polyphonic, but it is the normal and usual one. What about the games? Ha ha ha...i only have three games: Snake Xenzia, Pocket Carrom and Rapid Roll. Well, i don't even play this game, so what the heck...

What do i normally use with my handphone? i am using it for makin calls, sending text messages and for my alarm clock to wake me up early in the morning! i also uses my phone as a reference for my calendars...hu hu. well, with this kind of phone, you can't do anything much with it, can you?

Anyway, pray hard so that someone will buy me new handphones, and i can do "many" useful things with it! ;-)