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Mobile Phones and Teenagers
Topic Started: Aug 12 2011, 06:51:25 AM (395 Views)
ABCDiamond
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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
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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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Boner-fide Bonza Bloke

ABCDiamond
Aug 12 2011, 06:51:25 AM


Compared to mine...
3 minutes talk time and 5 texts (for the whole month, NOT per day)...
:erm: That's double my usage.
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Anne
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Wonderful Winsome Wench

Pair of grandads!
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ABCDiamond
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Talking about mobile phones, they have now been in Australia for 30 years.

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It was on the 9th of August 1981 that Australia’s first mobile call was made on Telecom’s original public mobile network. (The USA made its first call in 1973)
The car phone weighed a whopping 14kg, was half a metre big and cost $5000 at the time — around $17,000 in today’s terms.
It could only store 16 numbers, and the best part: you were alerted of incoming calls by honking the car horn or flashing the headlights!


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"..
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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..
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In 1996 I upgraded to this one, for $700, (50 hours wages) using 2 batteries that lasted 12 hours between them.
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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
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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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Boner-fide Bonza Bloke

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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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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