iPhone i

I finally succumbed to it. Just cannot help it anymore. The minute I received the sms from Maxis about the promo, I kept thinking about getting one. It actually started when abah and mak came over in June. I saw abah belekkiing the sister's iPhone and I can sensed that he liked it. I was thinking of ways to afford buying one for abah but I ended up buying one for me... hmmmm.... tunggulah balik AS nanti, kalau abah nampak cam teringin saja, kena beli lah jugak kat dia..

Therefore I am now a proud owner of an iPhone 3G (s) 16 GB... which I shall now call it as iPhonei...

I told Min about my new purchase and we got to chatting about the hp that we have had over the years. The first time I ever get to use a mobile phone was during the Hospital era. I was sometimes on call, bukan doctor pon, tapi on call jugak, so the Hospital provided me with a pager... in those days, ada pager pon tak cool ya amat. Later, when pager was not effective, and mobile phone became more mobile (who remembers the one that you have to carry like a briefcase, yang beteri dia as big as a car beteri tu????)... the Hospital bought a motorola set.. the size is about the same as the long envelope, 4x9 and as thick as a ream of A4 paper. The numbers on the screen (which you can only see the number you dialled, no texting, no CLIP available then) were red.. this is before it became green. That mobile phone was a pool phone, so whoever is on call have to carry that thing home. I have to put it in a tote bag and it was heavy, I tell you!!! Those days, I travel by bus, Len Seng bus to be precise and when the bus reached the Hospital, from the city centre, it will be full and chances were, I will have to stand all the way to Ayer Panas where I was staying. If the phone rang on the bus.... very the embarassing, I tell you... I would just pretended that I did not hear anything. Once it rang and rang and rang and I just cannot ignored it anymore, I have to answer it. All the passengers eyes were on me the whole time I was talking and I have to scream at the phone because the person on the other end cannot hear me properly, signal was an issue then... it was not COOL AT ALL!!! malu ya amat!!!! Yes, in those days, bawak handphone malu kat orang.. macam penting sangatlah sampai tak sempat nak tunggu sampai rumah...

20 years to now, look at how technology have evolved.... after that red screened phone, when I joined my last employment, I bought my own mobile phone. During that time, it was cool to have one. Everybody who is somebody (or at least thought that he/she is one, would own one). I bought it just because I was staying alone and I was already driving in KL and most of the time, alone. So my justification then, kalau jadi apa-apa, senang nak contact orang. The phone cost me RM1,030 when I was only earning RM3,300 per month!!!. But those days, we only switched the phone on only when we needed to use it kan. Sampai rumah, off, sampai office, off. Mobile phones can only be used for calls, still no texting and the screen was either green or black. The size of that phone???.. lets put it this way "kalau baling anjing, mati anjing tu!". And then everybody went crazy for a small phone... the smaller you hand set is, the cooler you are. But now, size does not matter.. its the functionality, the more functional, the better. I think size still matters but only in its capacity, not the physical size. It would not be so cool be seen using the phone the same size as the iPhone back in 2000.... not cool at all!!