About a year ago I received a voicemail from my Father saying,

I only get used to a phone (well half use) and then the contract is allways up and I get another one!

Ah the camera!

I inadvertently, created an art video, which is now on Youtube, filming my dog with it.

I have no idea quite what I did to achieve this, but it`s quite worthy as a psychedelic work.
I wish they would concentrate on phone reception more though.

I suppose in some ways, I have achieved some good achievements with it.
I successfully stored the seperates for a track from the studio on it, and got them back off again, which is a frighteningly important thing to be walking around endlessly screaming "hello can you hear me now " at.

However, THE very best use that Mrs Mart and I found for the camera, was taking a picture of the label on the mattress of our bed in our favourite hotel, photographing it and showing the phone to the bed shop, with picture, who ordered one to match it for us.
This means, along with our plastic travel kettle and small teapot home allways feels like away and vice versa.

The phone service , is of course identical too!

Hey! My pet peeve.

Mobile phones used to be a wonderful thing. The providers used to be on our side too. Back in '95 when SMS was launched they used to charge you the actual cost of the call (time connected to the network) SMS was around 0.002 pence each. There was never any serious problems, and if there was a hitch a technician used to sort it pronto.

Now, the network is overwhelmed and to add to this, texts are monitored. If any word 'flags up' as possible terrorist activity, you will have the text delayed or disposed of. Words like 'peril' will give you problems. I speak from experience here.

Bottom line - mobile phones have become a monster that has deviated from what they were intended to be and are none the better for it. Still using my 1995 Ericsson PH337 brick though;)!

RT

I HATEHATEHATE mobile phones. The only reason I have one is because my family believe I must have one so every couple of years they gift me with a new one.

They are a nuisance and I could rant about them forever and a day. What I will state here though is the fact I genuinely believe they are harmful and evil in equal measures.

Everytime I have spoken on the phone, I get a piercing headache in the side of my head which blossoms into a full fledged headache for the rest of the day and night. Painkillers won't shift it.

A few years ago, I was on emergency standby for a friend and so I slept with the phone under my pillow so it would wake me up if I was needed during the night. For the month that I did that, I was very ill. It wasn't till I stopped putting it under my pillow my health improved again. And then the Government and scientists claim they are NOT harmful... total rubbish.

With virtually everybody owning such hateful devices, there is no need for any form of electronic tagging. The police and other organisations can track people down through mobile phone signals... and thats all they ultimately are - a "friendly" way to have us all electronically tagged. Not that that is enough for our lovely Police forces.

Since mobile phones took off bigtime in 1999, is it just me or has shopping and working in city centres become more stressful? I blame this on the concentrated radiowaves mobile phones create polluting dense areas so we are actually walking within a dense invisible soup that is not doing anybody any good whatsoever. They are a hateful nuisance. How many times have we almost run smack into somebody from behind because they suddenly stop to attend to their phone? How many gigs have been ruined by phones going off? Is it possible to travel anywhere without having mind numbing ringtones bleeping and blaring away, let alone people shouting into them?

Then there's the text message culture encouraging youngsters to abbreviate words to the point that the English language becomes miniaturised and irrelevant...

Just my opinions of course but that's how I look upon mobile phones and how they have affected me personally. I'd love to see them banished out of existence. I now refuse to carry mine with me wherever I go and only switch it on for an hour a day in case anybody texts me. If I want to talk to somebody on a phone then I'll use a landline. And guess what? My friends and family accuse me of being "difficult"!

I'm with you all on this - I think mobile phoes are the ultimate evil.
Read CELL!

When I came out I noticed everyone was walking around like Munch's The Scream - one hand pressed to one ear (mobile), the other clasped over the other (to enable clearer sound), mouth open (either talking or getting ready to talk)...

Not noticing others, living in a tiny little world...

Plus the electronic ramifications...

UGH! But SO much a symbol of superficial, selfish society these days, blindly charging like lemmings over the cliff of sanity.

Two other things I have noticed about the dang things, which nobody seems to have documented.
Never put them in your pocket next to a battery.I only did this once, stuck it in my pocket next to a spare PP3, for microphone use, and the heat that erupted in my pocket was like a hot stone was in there.
Nobody believed me until they held the battery in their hand even up to 5 minutes later-still very hot!

The other one, is, I find whichever bit of my person I store it near, definetly aches, including the ear when in use, obviously.

I only take it with me when going away now, never take the thing out for shopping trips and the like, they`ll just have to wait. It got so intrusive.

My final view on this , I shall write in "predictive text" for you, which of course I have not mastered at all, and once accidently told someone where to go using it.

Here goes...

gthy the hsaytuksi 7 pm urgent

My mobile is a very simple one with a green screen and no camera. Mostly I keep it switched off, and I only really use it if I need collecting from rail stations, airports, etc. Also, it's a pay-as-you-go so no contract.

The word from Uncle Michael: Moderation in all things!

I resisted them for years. But it got to the stage that it was costing me not to have one, particularly when attending trade fairs, festivals and the like.

I never got as far as the camera bit. And I once sent an MMS out of curiosity. Never ever received one.

But does anyone remember the G3 scam, when frequencies went up for auction and BT almost bankrupted itself trying to buy them across Europe? If I remember, that was because we were all going to be sending MMS thingies and doing all sorts of things. Then there was eBay buying Skype for $3 billion dollars. Turns out it was a dud, as they are still losing money on the thing (great way to save money on int'l calls, though). My current phone is a freebie I received from a paper supply shop.

I now have more of a problem with e-mail, which I find intrusive to the point of infuriation. A lot of people don't bother ringing any more and presume you have read an e-mail 1 minute after they sent it. I recently configured the e-mail to only pick up new e-mail every 30 minutes. And I'm debating changing that to 45 minutes. So I can do what has to be done without being distracted.

There is no evidence that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones (or wi-fi) has any effect on people.

When they did tests people couldn't say if the things were active or not. Any problems are probably in your mind.