With such failures it becomes quickly aparent how hard you have been hit by this technical hiccup. I brushed the dust of my Nokia 62-whatever and popped the sim in from my S3 (yes, it fits). I plugged in the phone and watched it light up instantly as it charged. I contemplated the utter gloom of being without my S3. The phone became interactive and I shuffled through my contact list; full of history, nicknames, and incomprehensible abbreviations — there isn’t many of them. I had a bazillion contacts on my S3 what the frack am I gonna do?

Suddenly, I am interrupted by a torrent of calls from real people that pay the bills and I have to politely navigate around not knowing who they are initially. So, I get to the end of the day and  reflect. I can hear people, they can hear me. As a phone, after many a year,  the Nokia works better than the S3. In fact I am sure it will be around for the next catastrophic failure — I miss phones as good this, I miss the extra time I seem to gain from not looking at junk on the interwebs. Maybe I am a nostaligic fool but I would love my next phone to more like this little Nokia and little less like the media monster S3 — small, cheap, lightweight, robost, energy efficient, with a few cloud backup features thrown in.

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