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My Phones
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Finally the free memory stick arrived in the mail today. I had to search the internet on how to install the thing in my phone. I didn't find it in the manual. Anyway, as I was searching for that kind of stuff I came across a picture of my old phone. It's been 8 years since we've been introduced to the wonders of texting.

I remember that during the first time texting came out, my old analog phone paled in comparison with the hip new GSM phones that came out. No more cloned calls from those phones they said. This was the most popular phone that came out during that time, I remember Bart having one. He never changed numbers since that day.
Anyway, the phone had a built in game, Snake, the game popularized by Nokia, which eventually became a classic. I didn't have a Nokia though, the first one that I had was this:

It's an Ericsson GA 628, my number then was 09179469203. I wasn't able to see the forwarded images from my friends because this phone had just one line of text, unlike the Nokia phones which had 4. Those were pretty popular then. I don't know now, I guess they aren't.

Afterwards, I finally got another phone that September, the new 3210, which everyone knows how it looks. Plus it had new games like React, Memory, Logic, and Rotation. Of course Snake was still installed in the phone. I switched back to my former network, my number now was 09196248318.

A year later, one of the first phones that had a vibrate alert function came out. I had myself a 3310, a week before the (in)famous Edsa II revolt. We were there! My old number was 09175481240.

And after three years I finally got a phone with a camera. My old trusty T610, still running, still with me. And it's on roaming :) If you want to text me you can. If you know my number that is. I would like to offer my thanks to my parents for these phones.

Eight years since GSM phones became popular in our country. There was still a time then that for a flat fee of P165, you can have unlimited texting. Although messages arrive late oftentimes because the networks get clogged. And then the cellphone companies removed this and started charging P1/text. I remember this occurred around September of 1999. Anyway, a lot has happened during that time. I'm sure everyone witnessed it.

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