It has been alleged that the primary difficulty that lawyers have with Blackberries is not technical but rather dropping them down toilets. Ruthie is not surprised, knowing at least three barristers (male) in recent history who have dropped their mobile phones down toilets. The difficulty occurs as men keep their mobile phones in their trousers pockets.
Female business suits are not manufactured with trouser pockets (why?). Ruthie can only assume that womens suit manufacturers believe that we hand any money we earn to a man and therefore have no need to carry a wallet. We keep our mobile phones at the bottom of our handbags, which is why we can never answer the phone in time (or at least thats what we claim..).
Ruthie is of the wash’n'go school of technological usage and the proud owner of a Motorola A1000. Not only does it allow me to send e mails, but watch videos and make phone calls as well.
…make phone calls as well
Always useful in a phone says I. Does it let you watch telly? that seems to be the latest expensive pointless but rather cool gimmick.
ruthie said:
“Hi I figured it was sad to take my laptop on a ski-ing holiday, but am at the airport already suffering from blog withdrawal so maybe you can post this response to your comment on my behalf…
Everyone has idiosyncrasies & one of mine happens to be a general loathing of TV. In fact for many years I never owned a TV & took great delight in writing rude letters to the TV licensing agency who found it incomprehensible that anyone could choose live without a TV, & therefore concluded that I must be lying to them when I said I had no set.
My objection does not extend to other forms of media. I draw this distinction; use of other media requires an exercise of choice. Most TV viewing is passive, people just watch whatever happens to be on; no effort, decision or interaction required. TV fills a space that might otherwise be utilised for thinking, conversing (or indeed blogging). I also resent being manipulated by advertising agencies.
So my phone does not have a a TV & even if it did I wouldn’t watch it on principle. (Except for Top Gear-the only programme worth switching on for).
A TV licence is of course required for mobile phone TV. Ruthie is curious how non-compliance would be detected and enforced….”
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