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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 12 2011, 06:51:25 AM (395 Views) | |
| ABCDiamond | Aug 12 2011, 06:51:25 AM Post #1 |
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Just been reviewing my 15 year old mobile phone usage, and I can't help but sit here with my mouth open in almost disbelief.. 57 hours of talk time and 3,248 text messages in one month And this is just a "normal" month... That is 2 hours talking per day + 108 text messages per day. Compared to mine... 3 minutes talk time and 5 texts (for the whole month, NOT per day)... |
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| Tiredwithtwins | Aug 12 2011, 07:23:39 AM Post #2 |
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:lol: lucy is the same ... thankfully i pay about £15 a month and she gets 1000 texts and unlimited internet ... the rest of the credit she can use for ringing me or her dad or her aunties ... |
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BIX
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Aug 12 2011, 11:21:39 PM Post #3 |
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Boner-fide Bonza Bloke
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:erm: That's double my usage. |
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| Anne | Aug 13 2011, 12:55:51 AM Post #4 |
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Wonderful Winsome Wench
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Pair of grandads! |
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| ABCDiamond | Aug 13 2011, 03:44:44 PM Post #5 |
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Talking about mobile phones, they have now been in Australia for 30 years.
It was 10 years later that I got my first mobile phone, in 1991, on a 3 or 5 year Hire Purchase plan. It was a better one than the commonly called "brick".. Posted Image From memory it was something like this, with a 1 hour talk time battery, weighed nearly 1kg and would have cost a few weeks wages.. Posted Image In 1996 I upgraded to this one, for $700, (50 hours wages) using 2 batteries that lasted 12 hours between them. Posted Image I now have a 2 sim model, using Vodafone and Optus, with battery life of about 6+ days, and full Qwerty keyboard at a cost of $89 (about 2-3 hours wages). |
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| Tiredwithtwins | Aug 13 2011, 07:55:28 PM Post #6 |
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its amazing how the technology advanced ... my daughter (14) finds it astounding that we actually managed to live without mobiles :lol: |
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BIX
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Aug 13 2011, 09:19:45 PM Post #7 |
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Boner-fide Bonza Bloke
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My first mobile was handed to me in Nov 2004 on my first day at work in Australia. It was a hand me down Nokia and I said "what's that for?" They thought that was hilarious until they realised I wasn't joking. Took them 2 hours to find the instruction book. :D |
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Aug 14 2011, 06:57:18 AM Post #8 |
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I used to work for Mercury Communications (C&W) in the late 1980's I couldn't see the point in a car phone that took up so much space and the network was very limited. When the mobiles started coming out they were huge and I remember Paul having this monster sized phone with terrible coverage (mainly London) and very short battery life. To be honest I couldn't see the point of mobiles at all now I'd be lost without my IPhone. |
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