Re: Phone candy (was EXCUSES!)

["Andy Bovingdon" <bov@xxxxxxx>]

Good for you! I only upgrade for important features or 
dramatic reductions in size. I upgraded from a Nokia 7110
to an Ericsson T68 for the following reasons:

1) It was about half the size, without a silly antenna that 
    used to catch on my pocket
2) It was Tri-band - useful since I go to the US about
    10 times a year and it meant dumping my US company
     phone.
3) It had GPRS and bluetooth - I could use my iPaq to 
    do real browsing and email at a half decent speed,
    without lining up IR or plugging in cables. Although
    GPRS is not that fantastic.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nic Blinston" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Phone candy (was EXCUSES!)


> >>Ericsson's latest colour screen mobile phone for a guess.
> >>
> >Yep..... and no matter how much I keep thinking it would be cool,
I
> >can't even begin to justify spending 350 quid (sim free price!) on
a new
> >phone..... which will end up keeping me amused for a couple of
days,
> >before being exactly the same as whatever phone I manage to have
lying
> >around/ get given / ask nicely for at work...... (I work for a
mobile
> >phone repair company)
> 
> I completely floored a sales rep who called my mobile late one 
> evening to try to persuade me to upgrade my phone to a newer
model:
> 
> Me: Does it offer cheaper calls?
> 
> Rep: Umm... No.
> 
> Me: Does it offer better quality calls?
> 
> Rep: Umm... No.
> 
> Me: So why would would I want it?
> 
> Rep: (after I've disparaged all the phone candy items like games, 
> downloadable logos etc) Well, it'll last longer than your current
one!
> 
> Me: How come?
> 
> Rep: 'Cause it's newer!
> 
> Me: My phone is less than two years old, made with modern solid-state
> electronics, and I expect it to carry on working for another couple
> of years yet.
> 
> Rep: [speechless; hangs up]
> 
> 
> And with regard to all the TV ads, I'm not 'embarrassed' by my 
> current mobile; and I'm really not that bothered by what my mobile
> 'says' about me. I just want it to do the job.
> 
> 
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