The Marble Pedestal — Smartphones
Ravanne Lawday
Gateway Staff
Feb 01, 2012
I used to be against the ever-changing technology of cellphones, but last week I finally got with the times. Before now, I’d a phone of relatively normal IQ: I was able to access emails, Facebook, and fiddle around on a touchscreen. Then, it broke and my outlook on technology changed.
When I tried to save my normal phone, I was told that I might as well conduct a Viking funeral for it, because there was no way that thing was coming back to life. I was instantly stricken by sadness. That machine had always been the little phone that could.
But apparently, I’d racked up enough credit for a new phone of my choice. After a couple of tests, and I walked out with the most expensive phone they had in stock: the Einstein of smartphones, the LG Eclypse. The fun of a touchscreen and an adventurous keyboard sold me. Within seconds I could operate my several email accounts, check-in to my current location on Facebook and even set a gorgeous man wearing a top-hat as my background. I was in love.
One week later, I’m still infatuated. Important emails are only a click away, texting and co-ordinating with friends is less of a hassle, and I don’t have to grab my laptop to look up pointless information anymore. Friends, take it from a former technophobe, smartphones are worth it. My only regret is that it took me this long to put them on the Marble Pedestal.
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