- You boy! What day is it today?
- Why, it is the 17th birthday of Ian's #Luddyphone, sir!
- Then hie thee to the kitchen table and take a pic of all Ian's classic mobile phones.
- But with what, sir?
- Why, with his actually modern #Fairphone6, boy.
So yeah, with apologies to Charles Dickens and Alastair Sim, today I mark 17 years of active(ish) service by my not even oldest working mobile: a beautiful and oh so titchy Sony Ericsson W350i.
All those phones still work and have batteries that last weeks not hours.
None of them has ever disclosed my location to Faecbook, although the original #Luddyphone used to do Twitter by SMS. (Who remembers texting 86444?)
Now the stubby T39 is my burner phone.
The W350i is alarms, egg timing and MP3s of BBC radio clips like Jon Holmes calling Mark Goodier a c**t on air.
The #Fairphone2 was my main phone until August; now it has no 3/4G network but runs #Qobuz into my hifi (headphone jack FTW).
Ian