Computer Phone

Cell phone seemed to be taken for granted these days. Kids beginning at age five (coming from personal experiences with children in my moms kindergarten class) sometimes possess the most high tech devices. Over Easter I was looking through one of my friends drawers in their office room, containing all the cell phones the family had owned over the years. While it was a very large number with their being three children, it was astounding to see how the makers, style, and overall appearance of the cell phone have drastically changed.

This past year for my birthday I asked for a new phone. Mine had taken its course with numerous drops, being used as a dog play toy by my brother, a few drops in water and missing a few of the numbers because they had been rubbed off. To my surprise, and at the time dismay and confusion I received a blackberry. I was overwhelmed to say the least. On my previous phone the screen was less than half the size, Internet was not an option and text messaging was a long ordeal. Instead of reading through the manual, being the very impatient person I am, I decided to go to the AT&T store for a tutorial and to help be set up “the computer” as it was referred to in the beginning. After leaving the store and learning the basics I was a little less intimidated to make a call. I spent days playing around trying to figure out the purpose of each application and tool. It sounds stupid, but this little 3.5 x 2 inch handheld contains the organized version of my life. My OCD planner, which was my old obsession with color coding, highlighting and decorating, is now in the bottom of my desk draw since my phone can record my daily activities while reminding me periodically what needs to be done that day. Instead of having to log into mybama to compose or read e-mail, I can do the same by clicking the “smart key” on the side of my phone.  I won’t even go into and embarrass myself on the amount of hours spent on Facebook mobile or the best game created thus far, Brick Breakers.

If technology has come this far in such a sort amount of time I can’t even begin to fathom what cell phones will have the power to do five, ten or twenty years from now. This new, technology based world we are living in is a scary thing, but after embracing it, I look forward to all the new gadgets to come.