What does your cell phone say about you?
Grant Duval
Issue date: 2/28/08 Section: Opinion
You may not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can know everything there is to know about someone just by looking at their cell phone.
Flip phones for example vary in technology and colors. Some more expensive than others, but nevertheless the owners are all essentially the same person, "flip-floppers."
Sometimes they're open, sometimes they're closed, make up your mind.
Flip phone owners are the ones who park in two spaces because they couldn't decide on a spot.
You can usually recognize their car by the John Kerry sticker from the 2004 election. To open or to close this is the question, what a conundrum.
Slider phone owners are the same breed as the X-game fans of our yesteryear. They may have lost their taste for anarchy and outgrown their dreams of being a professional skater, but that doesn't mean that they can't stick to the man by sliding the number keys out from under the phone screen.
Sidekick owners have a ton of friends. Even their phone is their "Sidekick."
People who own Sidekicks are addicted to their friends, not the ones they are with, but the ones at the receiving end of their witty texts.
Sidekick owners are young and may or may not idolize Jay-Z. They are also highly lazy. If spelling out words without using abbreviations and predictive text is too hard, what else is too hard? Getting a job? Paying taxes? I'm on to you Sidekick owners.
You can usually recognize iPhone owners by the phone in their one hand and their latte in the other. They've known about Amy Winehouse way longer than you, and they think that Garden State is the best movie/soundtrack ever.
Potential owners waited out in front of stores for days to get their hands on the iPhone, which Time Magazine called the "best invention of 2007." Many of them didn't get a phone and those who did spent more than if they had waited. Patience is not a virtue in iPhone owners.
Bar phone owners like to bring it old school and keep life simple. Bar phone owners still can't get over the loss of their pager.
Now they find themselves pocket-dialing because they forgot to lock their keys. The two hour call to the operator was an expensive mistake they would have never made with their pager. The simple life just isn't that simple is it bar phone owners?
Our cell phones play an important part in our lives as an essential tool and a reflection of who we are.
Flip phones for example vary in technology and colors. Some more expensive than others, but nevertheless the owners are all essentially the same person, "flip-floppers."
Sometimes they're open, sometimes they're closed, make up your mind.
Flip phone owners are the ones who park in two spaces because they couldn't decide on a spot.
You can usually recognize their car by the John Kerry sticker from the 2004 election. To open or to close this is the question, what a conundrum.
Slider phone owners are the same breed as the X-game fans of our yesteryear. They may have lost their taste for anarchy and outgrown their dreams of being a professional skater, but that doesn't mean that they can't stick to the man by sliding the number keys out from under the phone screen.
Sidekick owners have a ton of friends. Even their phone is their "Sidekick."
People who own Sidekicks are addicted to their friends, not the ones they are with, but the ones at the receiving end of their witty texts.
Sidekick owners are young and may or may not idolize Jay-Z. They are also highly lazy. If spelling out words without using abbreviations and predictive text is too hard, what else is too hard? Getting a job? Paying taxes? I'm on to you Sidekick owners.
You can usually recognize iPhone owners by the phone in their one hand and their latte in the other. They've known about Amy Winehouse way longer than you, and they think that Garden State is the best movie/soundtrack ever.
Potential owners waited out in front of stores for days to get their hands on the iPhone, which Time Magazine called the "best invention of 2007." Many of them didn't get a phone and those who did spent more than if they had waited. Patience is not a virtue in iPhone owners.
Bar phone owners like to bring it old school and keep life simple. Bar phone owners still can't get over the loss of their pager.
Now they find themselves pocket-dialing because they forgot to lock their keys. The two hour call to the operator was an expensive mistake they would have never made with their pager. The simple life just isn't that simple is it bar phone owners?
Our cell phones play an important part in our lives as an essential tool and a reflection of who we are.
Viewing Comments 1 - 7 of 7
Freshie
posted 3/06/08 @ 11:34 PM PST
I have a different opinion on the words you've said. I own a sidekick but see I'm actually typing everything fully. It gets tiring from time to time. I'm using my sk right now. (Continued…)
Steven
posted 3/10/08 @ 7:53 PM PST
I'm a sidekick user myself and I type out everything fully. And im not that lazy and I have a job. so yeah..
David
posted 3/11/08 @ 12:31 PM PST
i agree with the other two sidekick owners i type out what i say fully & we have to have some type of job to be able to afford a sidekick
Shawna
posted 3/13/08 @ 2:21 PM PST
Well, I'm an iPhone owner and I have to say that I disagr- oh, hold on a sec - yes, I'd like a nonfat, soy, chai latte please. Um, what was I saying?
anonymous girlfriend
posted 3/13/08 @ 2:44 PM PST
Um, my man has a phone that pocket dials me. It's kind of nice to hear what he's listening to on the radio as he drives to work... and to know that I can spy on him throughout the day, and it's not MY fault, because he called me (on accident). (Continued…)
Ama
posted 4/13/08 @ 4:10 PM PST
Sidekick users are lazy without jobs? Wow! I'm in law school and I'm a paralegal. I have a job and I'm far from lazy.
May or may not idolize Jay-z? Oh really? You can say that about anyone. (Continued…)
barfingreader
posted 4/22/08 @ 8:58 AM PST
I'm an iPhone owner and I don't even know what a latte is. Is that some sort of paint brush? Amy Winehouse? I know who that is, but only because of the pop culture tabloid BS that we're all saturated with. (Continued…)
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