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// Filed under: Life on Tuesday June 28th 2005, 6:38 pm

Would you believe that in the whole of Westfield Carousel, there is only one store that stocked a replacement battery for my phone? Only one store, in this shopping mall behemoth that carries a battery for a Nokia 2100? Well, I say carries, but the correct word should be carried, as I purchased the last one today. And the shop assistant informed me that they were no longer going to be stocking any more, as the Nokia 2100 was now considered a “redundant” model and they would need the shelf space for newer models. So my phone, that I have had for only a year, is now considered a redundant piece of technology.

I mean sure, it probably is a redundant piece of technology by today’s standards - it can’t send picture messages, it can’t take pictures, let alone videos. It’s mono-phonic and can gain/lose anywhere from one to three bars worth of battery if you drop it, thump it, or even do something so unhinged and crazy as turn it on, and sure every now and then it goes totally silent while you’re pressing the keys, freezes and then crashes, but goddammit, it’s only a year old. And it’s still in the original aggressively-boring blue case that I bought it in.

Well, I guess this is what you get when you ask the guy at the shop for the least technically advanced model that money can buy. I still wish he’d been able to remove the Snake game from it though. Christ, I hate that thing.

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Tim says:

June 28, 2005 at 6:40 pm

First serious post evar!
Valheru Kaneda says:

June 28, 2005 at 7:04 pm

Hooray! A serious post!
So the capitalist machine rolls on, squashing any poor one year old phone owners.
Well never mind, they haven’t added anything really useful to mobile phones since they got that whole make phone calls bit sorted out.
Yeah, man, does Snake suck. I used to have the program in Basic so I could modify and it was still boring.
Mistress of t3h English says:

July 23, 2005 at 10:24 pm

*whipping sound*

Get back to work you filthy slackers, I don’t have time in my busy schedule for cream pies!

NOT IN MY EYES!
Poor guy says:

July 27, 2005 at 4:53 pm

I wish i had enough money to buy one of these quickly outdated new phones. I just dont have a few grand lying around.