Hate mail from RAZR users
After my brief diatribe on the RAZR, published not more than 2 hours ago, I have received 12 hate emails.
Ok, they’re not ‘hate’. They’re just, ‘how dare you’ and ‘how could you’ and ‘but *I* use a RAZR???’
Here’s what I wrote:
One girl flopped out her RAZR right in front of me, much to my annoyance. I think the RAZRs are really ‘Basildon’. You can’t go about using a bog standard 1.5 year old RAZR without having mobile bloggers like me sneer at you OPENLY.
And I standby that.
In fact I’ll enhance it. For the more worldly readers out there, not necessarily familiar with Basildon, here’s a (slightly tongue in cheek!) overview of Basildon (the page lists the Basildon council motto as:Hapless, Bloated, Inefectual.)
So, having put that in context, let’s take a look at the handset:
The handset was launched, according to Wikipedia, in 2004. I remember walking into a Vodafone store with my colleague Hetty and getting one for her. It was a piece of genius.
Now, you can buy the V3, one of the latest reincarnations of the RAZR, for £69 in Tesco. IN TESCO.
I kid you not:
So, WALKING ABOUT with a first generation RAZR (not even a V3) is simply inexcusable as far as I’m concerned. You definitely can’t take one to a speed dating evening.
Unless you are a balding 45 year old who really likes the fact that his 1st generation RAZR containing 7 phone numbers in the address book fits nicely in his M&S suit pocket, upgrade please.
Once again - loving your work.
I haven’t been to Bas Vegas in ages - Hahaha - and Ewan, I am completely with you with the whole V3 thing.
In my last job one of my colleagues got one, I berated him for it and spent a good half an hour explaining to him and my other colleagues how my N70 (at the time) was so much better and that the V3 shouldn’t even be looked at…
Two days later someone else went out and got one.
A V3.
AAARGH!
Posted by James Whatley on January 31st, 2007 at 11:00 am.I’m not sure what your point is - that it’s a bad thing to have a 1.5 year-old phone? (try telling that the to Congolese miners & mountain gorillas). That it’s a bad thing to shop in Tescos (well, fair enough, but that doesn’t stop most of us from doing it on a weekly basis). Hey, if it works, use it!
Posted by Dan on January 31st, 2007 at 1:33 pm.It is simply a position of a mobile phone snob Dan!
There’s nothing at all wrong with Tesco, I think it’s a super place. Bought some pillows there the other week.
Flaunting your V3 in front of me as a status symbol…….. no. Not any more. It’s time for a KRZR or the like, I reckon!
Posted by ewan on January 31st, 2007 at 1:36 pm.