After much thought and delay, I finally decided to get a new phone for myself. This would be the second phone that I'm purchasing and the fourth one I'd be using, since the time I starting using mobile phones since 2007.
It was when I started working as the Province Secretary that I got my first mobile in 2007. It was a Nokia handset. And three years later when I was transferred to Kondadaba, I left the phone with my successor.
While at Kondadaba, I decided not to get one, because there was no need. Besides, the network was very poor. However, one of the parishoners gifted Fr KT Jose a phone and him not very comfortable to 're-learn' using a different model of the phone, preferred to get a phone of the same model and type that he was already using. So, he passed on that Nokia (again) phone to me. That would have been in 2011 or later.
I had it with me till 2016. Even though the last one year of its use, the speakers had given way and I could use it only it with the wired earphones. That was in Ramanthapur. And in 2016 when I left Ramanthapur to fly to the UK, the community gifted me with a Samsung J5 (or something of that number).
I used that Samsung phone for most of my time in the UK. And while extensively using e-bay, came across a second hand i-phone. I bought that for GBP 42 (approximately Rs 4,000)!!! It was the iphone SE 2016 edition. I bought it in 2021. That phone was great! Small in size and very smooth in its operations. No wonder why people are crazy for iphones - besides the brand craze! However, for more than a year now the battery has been draining very fast. From recharging it thrice or four times a day, about two years ago, today I need to practically keep it for charging after every call. If not for that one single drawback, I'd be more than happy to continue using the phone.
Given the fact that I never watch(ed) videos, or listen to music or use maps or the camera or anything fancy on any of my phones, I would say my phone use has been extensively and exclusively AS a phone - calls, documents, whatsapp and my daily alarm!!
Today I start using my latest phone, Vivo T4x 5G. Surprisingly I discovered that it was released on my birthday this year!!!
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