yebaah!

I don’t think there’s another culture that’s more fixated on mobile phones than Filipinos.  It seems every man and his dog has a mobile phone.  A recent study revealed that even the Filipino poor spend at least P100 per month on their mobile phones.  That’s good.  I believe in equality, everyone has a right to have one.  But I dislike those who use their mobile phones - and all its glorious accessories - as a status symbol, but don’t have money for load (phone credits). Nag-phone ka pa!****

Frankly, I hate text messaging.  My 6-year old niece could text faster.  Most Filipinos hardly use their phones for voice calls, they text.  Calls are expensive, so I just get texted.  And I’m the idiot that racks up on mobile phone bills because my thumbs are too slow to reply, I have to call.  So can some uber-geek out there help me and invent a texter gadget pleeeaaase?
I’m proposing a business venture here – build a texter with the following must have accessories: 

• Voice recognition software (like the Dragon software for PCs) so the user can simply dictate what he/she wants to text
• Text decipher function so text-illiterates like me can understand the shortened words and sentences people make like ‘san n u?’
• Pinoys love to accessorise their phones, so the gadget must also have a large hole for users to hang all the bling blings they want including large stuff toys
• Wrist band or neck band so users can append the thing to them all the time
• Touchscreen/TV/FM/GPS/mp4

Optional accessory:   phone

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Text messaging, on the contrary, is anti-social.  Come to think of it, gone are the days of long conversations over the phone.  I don’t think emoticons are better than the sweet nothings whispered over the phone.

(At pag ako’y asar, no emoticons ang tatalo sa kilay ko!)

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Never ever leave your phone unattended.  I used to always have a loaded phone until this phenomenon called pasaload came into being…haaay…

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