Living life (or a weekend) without a mobile phone: Weekend engagement, Week 183

Mobile phone
A device that greatly influenced my career development and determined my life's vocation.

I'm here today

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The first one i had in my hands (Nokia 2010, 1994 model) and one i loved to use and play "snakes"(Nokia 3210)

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Way back in 1996, when I first held a mobile phone in my hands (if it wasn't a long-range wireless phone) and made a call from the lake where we were fishing, I knew I wouldn't part with it for the rest of my life.
At that time, I had no idea that in the future the mobile phone would have all the accessories it has today, and I can't imagine where it will go from the current situation...

I remember the distant year 2000, when my friend from high school opened a mobile phone service and invited me to work together.
There was no end to my happiness.
Working in the mobile phone service, when I got my hands on a wide variety of brands and models.
These were the famous Motorola bricks (D160, CD130...) or Motorola with a flip (then the best V60), Ericsson with sharp edges (388,688...), then Ericsson with flip doors (T28, T39), until the first Ericsson phone with a colo r screenwith globe T68, so Nokia devices of all sizes (5110, 6210, 8310), Sony (Z5, Z7...), Panasonic, Siemens, Samsung, Alcatel, Sagem...

Countless devices passed through my hands during those years.
And it determined my further career development.

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I enrolled in telecommunications, and after graduating from college, I got a job as a technician, and then as a telecommunications engineer...
And continued to have daily contact with a large number of mobile phones.

Mobile for colleagues Samsung A54

Mobile for colleagues Samsung A13

Replacement phone for my director, to Iphone 15Pro

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My first Smart phone SonyEricsson XperiaX10 mini

My best (most expensive) classic mobile phone Nokia 8800 Sirocco gold edition

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**A phone can save a life **
This is a situation from my life, which clearly describes why it is useful to have a mobile phone with you non-stop.

I don't remember what year was (2000, 2001..).
I sold my cousin a phone (from our service shop), which stopped working after the warranty expired.
Since I didn't care about one phone, and in order not to become a "black sheep" in the eyes of the family, I took one of my reserved phones and took it to a relative whose phone broke.
I inserted his SIM card, tried to see if he could make a call (called myself on the cell phone and tested how it sounded) and headed home.

As soon as I got home, I got a call from my relative's number. I called, but I didn't hear anything. Only in the background is the sound of the tractor working and some strange buzzing.
I realized that something was wrong, I thought that he had dropped his phone and that he had lost it.
I quickly went to my cousin's house and his wife told me that he went to the field to gather hay.
I sat in the car with his neighbor and drove to the field where he drove the tractor.
I saw how he was lying on the ground, unconscious, and that he had several red spots on his hands. He was alive, but unconscious. We put him in the car and took him to the emergency.
We arrived on time.
As the analyzes showed, and as he told us when he woke up, while collecting hay, he hooked a hornet's nest in the ground with his pitchfork and 7 of them stung him.
All he managed to do before he lost consciousness was to take his phone out of his pocket and click the green receiver twice - And so he accidentally called me.
If he had not done this, his fellows would not have thought of looking for him until evening, when the poison, injected by the stings of the hornet, would have led to his death.
I don't want to think what would have happened if I hadn't given him a working cell phone that day.
So this story is a story with a happy ending.
Two weeks ago I was visiting that relative.

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The other extreme
Another thing is that the mobile phone, by switching to a smart form and adding all the functionalities it has today, stopped being just a mobile phone a long time ago.
As a joke we say: "If he could still make coffee, where would he end up..." ?

Today, children and people (especially those who live in cities) do not work in the fields and do not move in the forests. Not all adults work in special operations units (firefighters, police, army, ambulance...) so they have to be available non-stop...
They sit in their homes or in restaurants and cafes, in parks and in cars, and they are constantly (with downcast eyes) tapping on their device.
At the same time, they ignore their surroundings, other traffic participants, friends with whom they sit In restaurants, family members with whom they live (husbands, wives and children). They distance themselves from their surroundings and become one with their smartphone.
Well, your topic question makes a lot of sense today.

• Could you live without your mobile phone for one weekend?

When I look at the question this weekend, I realize that the same could be divided according to the age of the user, i.e. depending on the year of birth. So the division into categories:

• Born before 1980. Question: Would you like to be without your phone for two days? We need it for testing purposes. Can? The answers would certainly be: Of course. Yes. I would go for a walk in the forest, go fishing, read a book, take pictures with a foto camera...

• Born in 1990. Question: Would you survive two days without your smartphone? The answers would surely be: Oh, well, I guess I would hold out. Just to check my mail on my laptop. OK, I'll ask my older brother to show me how to use the foto camera, I have an agreement with my friends to go to the Christmas market this weekend, so I can take a picture of the town. It's a small town, I won't need Maps on my phone...

• Born in 2000: Question: Can you get through the weekend without a smart device? How complicated would it be for you to arrange a date with your friends this weekend without cell phones? The answer: They are all in my neighborhood, they would probably manage to make an agreement, and there are still landline devices, we didn't turn them off because of the parents and grandparents who are used to them. When I think about it, great. We're going to the club, and no one will take pictures if we get drunk or do something stupid. But, fuck it, how are we going to post where we were for the weekend. Too bad, no one will like our photos... But OK, maybe, why not...

• And those born after 2010. Your question @galenkp : Could you survive a weekend? The answers would be: One whole weekend, not an hour or two? So what kind of question is that, so are you crazy?

So how should I invite my friends. Through that device that has dust on it, so how can I see on YouTube how it is used. So how do I find the number from the app. So no internet. So how to read a book for homework. So how do I advance the agreed upon level of play that we negotiated this week... Soooooo. Aaaaaa!!! No! Fuck no!

I remember an anecdote when the internet stopped working for a few hours, my colleague's son asked him: “How you lived when there was dial up?”.
Son, we lived before the Internet 😀

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Due to work needs, I use two phones, one business and the other private *Samsung S23+).
With the agreement with my bosses, the mobile number should be available to me 24/7, except on annual vacation days, when I turn it off, and that's all.
On business phone, I have all the necessary apps for performing business activities and communicating with colleagues.
When I am not available on it, I can be contacted on my private number, by voice call, in very specific situations, if it is really urgent!

And on my private phone, I don't have any of that (not even Viber, Whatsapp, mail... nothing). Only a number for calls and a SIM, and the ubiquitous camera.
There are only apps related to crypto and favorite social networks... And that's all.

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How would I spend this weekend without a mobile phone (aha, that means born before 1980 )?
I could turn off this business phone immediately.
I would transfer the pictures I took for the purposes of this and tomorrow's post from the private one to the computer, agree in advance on the terms of obligations for today and tomorrow and turn it off easily.

I wouldn't look at the Chart for two days (just to be surprised on Monday where BTC and the rest of the ALT went, even towards ATH or pullback).
I would certainly replenish my Voting mana to 100%, but lose one HiveBuzz message for a post every day of the week, month or year.

This is for the reason that 99% of the posts I write on Hive are posted from my mobile phone, because I did not have my laptop with me…
And I very likely read one of the new books (which I plan to buy today in the "Book Night” which in my city is held until 10.12.) .
Or watched a movie...

I would rest my eyes from looking at a smaller screen, rest my hands from holding a mobile phone and relax with a walk and hanging out with my closest friends and family members.
I would easily live longer than a weekend, I just don't know if you would miss it here 😃