Barney: Ted, tonight we're gonna go out. We're gonna meet some ladies, it's gonna be *legendary*. Phone-five! [slaps cell-phone] Barney: You didn't phone-five, did you? [pause] Barney: I know when you don't phone-five Ted.

what is a mobile phone??

here not only is it a calling phone but a hand of the friend to high five with...when i was little, i thought it was a texting/talking device, and when i first got one in year 7, that is exactly what it was, although i was lucky enough to get the nokia 3315 that had a game called snake as well...
...here is a little snippet of how excited one person got over the game...

this was possibly the most exciting distraction in highschool that you could get on a mobile phone, all my friends and i would have compititions to see who could get the highest score and apart from snake, all this phone was good for was ringing my mum to come and get me from school or a friends house!!!

but since technology has come so far, does the mobile phone still exsist? i dont have an iphone but even my phone/computer/office/internet/gaming device does more than a mobile phone ever could. yes, i still do text and call of it but i also set my daily alam, use a calculator, access facebook, check the news, whether and sport, play games and put my day to day activities in the calander all on my phone...so it it really still a mobile phone?? and the iphone does even more than that!! take a look at these for example...

so is it a mobile phone?? look at where technology has brought us! the iphone has so many different apps that we no longer need a laptop (the once portable computer) as it is all in the palm of our hands, a small computer with a built in phone...yeh that sounds better!! although i do have a laptop that i use all the time (i am even writing this blog on it) but even my computer cant do some of the things an iphone can...so the iphone is some sort of technological device witha built in computer and phone...yeh?? no?? im not even sure...

all i know is that its amazing, my boyfriend has an iphone and while im stuck at his house whilst he watches the footy/rugby/golf or any other sort of sport on tv, i can keep myself amused for hours with the many apps and the internet sites i can access, i can track where his friends are if i need to get out of the house and visit someone or just casually make a few calls for a chat! but there are also many downfalls of the iphone, the main is how unsocial it is...

...we sit at the dinner table with our phones, we play on them all day, we play games on them with the person right next to us, but when are we talking to each other, when are we in the backyard with family? its all about the social networks and the ease of using them!!! its too easy these days having the technology in the palm of our hands!!

but i love my "mobile phone" anyway :)