I have come in contact with different product in different areas of life ranging from dresses, electronics and many other belongings that I later lost but the one I really want to talk about now is phone.
About a decade and half ago, I purchased a Nokia phone (Nokia 2310).
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Before then, I had dreamt to use phone someday. It hadn't been long that telecommunications through handset penetrated Nigeria. I bought the phone with so much sense of fulfilment. I think as at then, that was the most expensive product I ever bought.
Many features of the phone made it to be so dear and irreplaceable to me. When I was using the phone, epileptic power supply was not much a problem because the phone's battery was so strong that if I charged it once, it took me for one week. As a result, the fear of not being reachable on phone due to low battery wasn't a thing of concern.
The phone was portable with easy to understand features for a novice.
The quality of the materials from which the phone was made was superb. I am a type of person that is careless with phone when it comes to phones falling off from one's hand at the slightest mistake. The Nokia 2310 fell off my hand uncountable times and each time it fell, I would just pick the dismantled parts up and couple them together and it would begin to work normal. I used the phone for good five years without any hitch before it was unfortunately hijacked from me by thieves.
I was returning home on an evening through a path that was most of the times quiet. I put earpiece and was listening to radio on the phone when I met two men who after exchanging greetings and gone past one other, called me back for an enquiry. Immediately I turned back and met them, they removed knives from their waist and demanded for the phone. I thought of giving a fight for my precious phone but I thought about my safety seeing two knives and changed my mind. That was how the phone was collected from me.
Soon after that, I tried getting that type of phone but couldn't find it in the market. People have been telling me about android phones before then. I decided to buy an android phone few weeks after. Though my new phone came with some features that made it more sophisticated in browsing and other few activities, it wasn't able to fit into the shoe of my Nokia in the area of durability when roughly handled and the battery life.
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In less than a year, I changed the screen of the phone more than twice.
Over the years, I have used many brands of android phones but the memory of that lovely Nokia of mine won't leave in a hurry. I was able to cope with the absence of the Nokia by purchasing another small phone (with stronger battery than android but not in anyway close to my lovely Nokia) which I used with android.
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Hi lightpen, the Nokia phones were classics and had a cult following, and they were hardy and durable.
I am sure that they tried to make a comeback a few years ago and launch a retro style phone.
Sometimes technology advances and destroys what we like!
Thanks for sharing your lost product.
That's exactly what happened. We are now left with developing likeness for what is currently available.
Yes all about learning to adapt to what we have now!
Hi @lightpen
Being mugged for your phone is awful, I'm so sorry you lost it that way. I remember the old Nokias very well, I had a 3310 for years, it would fall and break into four or five pieces, you'd pick them up and put it back together and it would just work. Great product!
Exactly. My older cousin used that Nokia 3310. Very strong phone. Phones nowadays are fragile.
True but having to press the button three times to get through the three letters of the alphabet on that number was freaking ridiculous. I think that's why they had to be robust - people got annoyed and used to throw them around to get rid of the frustration.
I miss a BlackBerry I had back around 2011. I loved it. These days phones are too fragile, made of glass? Weird. And all that bloody swiping! Ridiculous.
Any little problem to the screen, the functionality from swiping becomes so difficult. Blackberry was really a loved product those years.
I liked that it had a keyboard, actual buttons. I had the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and it was simply perfect for what I needed. Ah yeah, I miss it.
Your story made me quite nostalgic. I guess I was newer to the game than you. My first love was a Nokia 3310, and man that baby could take some hits. I lost count the number of times it fell from my hands. Fortunately for me, the only thieving that happened with my phone was my brothers stealing my credit to call their girlfriends.
That encounter with the thieves must have been traumatizing, I am happy you realized that it was not a fight worth fighting. So, fast-forward to now and the smartphone is sort of an upgrade, except that they cannot take the hits like the old ones used to.
The upside though is that there is a tracking device installed. This will make the thieve's lives more difficult. Peace fam.
Thanks fam.
Truly, it doesn't worth fighting for. We are in a more sophisticated world now technologically. The future is pregnant and a time may come that we'll be reflecting back on the memories of today's products and events. Changing world.