Well, here it is: Today I have set up my website and completed the obligatory Facebook page and Twitter account.
- Blimey, after five years of having a (personal) Twitter account purely for following a few companies, I've even Tweeted a couple of times! It's an interesting new experience, but I'm sure that I'll soon make a Twitter-faux pas soon with a poorly chosen hashtag.
So what's this all about? Well, I love mobile phones, or at least I did during the halcyon days of feature phones. If it wasn't for all of my contacts and calendars being stored in The Cloud, I would go back one.
However, don't think of my as some tech phreak - I love the design of mobile phones, and the featureless wasteland of ever more efficient but all-so-similar smartphones does little to interest me. I do not need, nor care much for the latest flagship handsets. Yes, the iPhone 5s and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are good looking, quality handsets, but they don't interest me.
What can you expect from reading this blog?
Firstly, I will not be posting inane comments about the state of the nation, or ranting about unrelated subjects. If I have something worth posting, I will post it.
My posts will primarily focus on the UK mobile industry, the prices, the tariffs, the networks and my thoughts about where the industry is heading in the future.
To kick things off, here's a photo of my first mobile phone - It's a Philips Savvy that I bought back in 2000 with Virgin Mobile (before they became Virgin Media). It could send text messages, which was a novelty way back then, and as I remember calls were only 15p/minute for the first 5 minutes each day, after which they dropped to 5p/minute. I wish that some of the current PAYG prices were that good.
