In fact I don’t have an iPhone. I have a G Phone (a HTC magic (now)), running Android 1.6. But if I’d have said “Why I can’t live without my G Phone”, people might have thought I was on some Android crusade, which I’m not. This post is about “culture”, well ish…

A few weeks ago whilst on a “keeping the wife happy” trip to the theatre, I lost my then phone, (a HTC Hero, running android 1.6 – T-Mobile custom ROM). So I had to go back to the horrible old Sony slide out 9 button jobbie – true evil.

Worst phones maybe available, but it's bloody unlikely

Now I have never insured my phones, I reason that you get a new one ever year, so if you lose it just cut your loses and wait for your contract to be renewed. And anyway, insurance like this is a massive con right, £70 a year for a free “£350” phone. Unless you’re especially gifted, you’re only likely to lose once every 3 years.

So there I was with the telephonic progeny of Satan pressed up against one ear, and this funny, odd feeling in the other (- ear, and not, I’m happy to add the afore mentioned wife!).

Now, I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I had mobophobia, but I did long for the old days. No podcasts on the way home, No Google maps if I got lost, no tunes to listen to at the drop of a hat. Not insurmountable problems I grant you, but why be without the “luxury” when its no great shakes to have it?

So there you go, I went and got a new phone. Now I have it all back, and it feels so good!! Podcasts, mp3’s, chess games, shazam, twitter, the ability to Sky+ TV programmes I don’t really want to watch form the comfort of the pub, and a practically limitless amount of other rubbish that I don’t really want or need. But I can have it, I can have it all, and now I’ve got it I don’t want to give it up!

so there you have it…

Me 0, Mobile phone companies 1!