We Love Our “Phones”

@whereisciao and I hit the town a while back for the expressed purpose to talk to people about mobile technology and their experience with it. The conversations were interesting for a couple of reasons: People are passionate about their phones. If they’re not passionate about their phones, they’re passionate about the capabilities.

I can certainly relate.

Before I got my iPhone, I had a Moto Q. When I got the Moto Q, I loved how sexy and thin it was. Also, I loved that it had a calendar and Exchange support for email. I soon grew weary of Windows Mobile, though, and a battery that would last about 3 hours before I had to charge it again. I grew to hate the phone and ended by contract with Sprint early because I couldn’t stand carrying this “thing,” that I hated, with me everywhere I went.

In our conversations, we found a woman who just received a new phone. Even the basic phones today offer more capabilities than simply calling someone.

For this woman, it was obvious that she had only used these devices historically. In other words, her only context came from “calling” people. She appears intimidated by this new “phone” and if her wireless carrier hadn’t sent her this new device to use, she probably never would have purchased it. But because we take our phones with us everywhere, they become incredibly personal devices and as she’s started to use it, she’s looking at the device differently. She’s only beginning to understand how personal and powerful these devices have become when she talks about how the phone has “ringtones” and that she will begin text messaging her sister. She admits she’s not the type to “personalize things” normally, but this device is throwing her into a new situation where now she sees herself and the world a little differently.

See for yourself:

*Update* More proof about how we are changing, How Cellphones are Changing Our Brains

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