My six mobile phones
Text/Li Xiang
Nowadays, mobile phones are an indispensable product for everyone, not just a communication tool. Mobile phones can navigate, shop, and light. Mobile phones have the advantage of being more versatile and convenient than computers. Therefore, many computer manufacturers have also made iPads to integrate their advantages. The proof that “mobile phones are getting bigger, computers are getting smaller, and life is getting better and better” is all concentrated on smartphones. Mobile phones integrate functions such as cameras, voice recorders, calculators, radios, etc., like an omnipotent “artifact” ".
Therefore, people are much closer to mobile phones than real people, and they communicate with netizens much more often than with family members. I often see online calls for people to put down their mobile phones to spend time with their families. However, this is very difficult for some people. In addition to those who have become mobile phone dependent, there are also many people who cannot do without their mobile phones for work, such as WeChat business, Taobao, express delivery... It seems that work without having to work is easier, but in fact, another item occupies his entire life. The Spring Festival is approaching, and many children who are away from home go home to visit the elderly and keep playing with their mobile phones during the New Year's Eve dinner. This will not only dilute the "New Year spirit", but more importantly, it will make the elderly feel depressed. Will there be a new round of calls for cherishing family affection on the Internet during the Spring Festival this year?
I am less dependent on mobile phones in my life. I neither play games nor watch videos or shop on my mobile phone, and I only have three social apps. I basically only check my phone twice a day, once after I get up and once before going to bed. Many people say that my phone is basically just a decoration for me, but it’s still not possible without it. Not only is it impossible, it’s even impossible without the Internet. At the end of the year, there was no internet at home for a few days. I didn’t check any social software or read a single piece of news during those days. I felt out of touch with the world. When the internet was restored, hundreds of group chat messages popped up on WeChat, and I felt as if I traveled to this day without passing through those few days, as if I had been abandoned by the world and found again. I don’t know how many days others can live like this, but I can persist for ten days. Having said that, although I can only rely on newspapers and television broadcasts to deal with external matters, during this period it made me pay more attention to my inner world.
The day before yesterday I bought a new mobile phone Honor 8. I pay more attention to the recording and camera functions of the mobile phone. When I got home, I found that this mobile phone has good functions in these two aspects. This is my sixth mobile phone and my second smartphone. I struggled for a week before buying this phone, and finally I gritted my teeth and bought it.
I bought my fifth mobile phone online in 2012. It is a very special brand: "Hua Xia Tong". Many people have never heard of this brand. I didn't even know what I bought before it was mailed to me. what brand. This phone looks similar to , OPPO, , and VIVO, but its performance is far from it. The network speed is very slow, and the running memory is very small. The network speed is so slow that it takes half a minute to browse a web page, and the memory is so small that WeChat cannot receive pictures. Friends who know me well know that I was once troubled by the inability to receive or send pictures on WeChat. By the second half of last year, the basic functions of this phone were no longer sensitive. It was often impossible to open the phone book and text messages because the files of these programs had to be stored in the built-in memory. The camera function of this phone is pretty good. As long as you don't take pictures of night scenes, you can still see people's faces clearly. If you want to take pictures of sunsets or lights, you don't even have to think about it. Even so, I was still very excited when this phone came by express mail. It was the first smart phone I owned, a dual-SIM phone, and the first phone after I entered junior high school. Compared with my fourth I don’t know how much better the camera function of a mobile phone is.
My fourth mobile phone is a rectangular shape similar to a square, with a black body, vertical dial keys on the left side, and a selfie camera above the screen, which was not available before. I remember buying this phone purely because I liked its appearance. The front part of its casing was made of painted iron, and the back part was made of painted plastic. The front half was silvery and shiny, and the back half felt smooth, especially when held in hand. I'm fascinated by the compact and noble feel, and the functions are the same as the third mobile phone.At that time, I was still very much a "appearanceist" about mobile phones. I would have trouble sleeping and eating because I liked a mobile phone. The price of this phone is nearly 1,000 yuan, which is considered a mid-range phone in 2010. Since it does not require an operating system, it is not yet a smartphone, but it can access the Internet. It seems like there were very few smartphones back then.
Let’s talk about my third mobile phone. The third mobile phone was not mine, it was "robbed" from my uncle. I remember one day I went to his room and found a strange bag with the word "mobile phone" written on it. When I opened it, I was immediately excited because this phone The mobile phone can take pictures, and this mobile phone is mine every time I go back and forth. I was thinking that my mother bought such a good mobile phone for my uncle, why didn’t she buy it for me? Later I found out that this phone actually only cost more than 400 yuan, and it was not considered a very good phone at that time. However, in 2009, you could already buy a mobile phone that can take a camera for more than 400 yuan. I remember that in 2007, a mobile phone with the same function cost more than 1,000 yuan. This shows how fast electronic products are updated. The memory of this mobile phone is only 700K, so I had to spend 30 yuan to buy a 1G memory card. Thinking about it again, it was such a disadvantage, but the largest memory card at that time was only 4G. This red and white plastic mobile phone stayed with me for 4 years and was not replaced until 2012. The black mobile phone is mainly responsible for taking pictures, and this mobile phone is mainly responsible for recording and making calls, because the camera function of this mobile phone is not good.
As I write this, I find that upgrading my mobile phone is also a process of keeping pace with the times. Although my electronic products have always been slower than my peers in keeping up with the times, I have never been left behind by the times, and I am not Pursue the title of fashionista.
illustrates a problem through the upgrading of several mobile phones. Modernization construction is constantly deepening and upgrading is getting faster and faster. The value of shallow technology is constantly depreciating with the development of deep technology. People's horizons are constantly broadening, and thus People's lifestyles are changing rapidly.
This brings my mind back to ten years ago. I got my first mobile phone during the winter vacation in the first grade. It could only make calls and send text messages, and it couldn't send pictures when sending text messages. It was a Motorola mobile phone with a dark gray plastic shell, a rubber keyboard, and a blue display. The screen was made of the same material as a calculator. The price was 188 yuan, which was the cheapest new mobile phone in Fushun at that time. That winter, I found a and new Mart printed poster. I was so excited that I found a 188 yuan mobile phone on the poster. It also had the words "limited edition while stocks last" printed on it. I was worried about "limited edition" every day. Edition” phones will be sold out. The person selling the phone was a salesperson with huge, protruding eyes. He introduced me to me in detail about this phone, which had few functions. After I bought the phone home, my mother warned me many times not to play around with it all the time, as my eyes would easily become as big as the salesperson selling the phone, so I often took the phone out of the orange box and put it back again. I can’t put it down. . Later, I thought, why should I play with this phone since it has no functions? Maybe it's excitement.
Then the excitement of the second mobile phone was much worse, so that I never used it after buying it. The main reason is that this mobile phone is a Telecom phone and can only accept Telecom cards, so every time I see it, I Mobile phones remind me of the word "monopoly", and I feel very uncomfortable about it. However, this phone has a color screen, but it still does not have a camera function.
Although I bought my sixth mobile phone, which is undoubtedly the most versatile and the most expensive mobile phone in the past, I am not so fond of it, I am just satisfied with the clear photos taken. I lent my first mobile phone to my uncle last year, because when he found his mobile phone, he took my mobile phone somewhere. I asked him to return it to me when he found it, and I kept it as a souvenir. In fact, this mobile phone is really different from today's mobile phones, but I keep it for no use, but I still like this mobile phone very much. It is my first mobile phone. I still remember the excitement of owning a mobile phone for the first time ten years ago.
I sometimes wonder, why do people care so much about the first time? Just like some people never forget their original spouse or their hometown because they once had it.
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About the author: Li Xiang, a member of Liaoning Writers Association, is currently a student of Liaoning University and loves music, calligraphy and literature. Living in the city, savoring the bitter, spicy, sour and sweet life, and writing about the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the city. He has published the short story "King of Swords".
