I Want One!

Look at this cool cellphone plug-in! I don't know about you, but I've never really felt comfy holding my little cellphone up to my ear and mouth—it always feels as though it's in the wrong position. And it gets hot. And I've read that I'm frying my brain cells every time I do it. True, I don't talk on my cellphone very often at all—days can go by when I don't use it—but I do use it for all my long-distance calls now, since they're all included in our monthly minutes. Wouldn't it be nice to talk on a regular receiver like this? And, though I try to avoid using my cellphone in the car, wouldn't it be funny to see someone's expression as they glimpsed me holding an old-fashioned receiver in the car? Or, better yet, walking down the street? It would also be much easier to hold it between my head and shoulder than my tiny cellphone.

Comments

[Leigh]

Karen - did you pick up the NYTimes today?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/magazine/20truss.html

[Margaret]

I like it too. I am not a big cell phone fan, but use it about like you do. I am still so unused to getting calls that when my phone rings I am sure it must be an emergency.

[Karen]

Yes. Meanwhile, ES&L was filled with errors. It was maddening. You must have seen Louis Menand's review in the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1

[Karen]

Same here -- pretty much only Andy and the kids' schools even have the number, so it's either urgent or a wrong number.

[Mquest]

I saw one of those about a year ago. I think they are a great idea. (in my sick little world)