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We've come a long way. As smartphones evolved from monochrome plastic bricks in the late 90s, into these incredible, all-in-one, thinner bricks we have today, so did phone carriers.
Sure, it couldn't do everything, like smartphones today, but my cellphone had two whole games! And allowed me to make little avatars for different callers, and compose my own monophonic melodies! "Oh, your kid wants a phone? Well, you're an adult who's new to this technology and don't understand it, just like your kid, and neither of you are a lawyer either, so naturally – here's a 50-page contract for you to sign. Sure, it complicatedly says that you'll be paying us monthly for many years, and it renews automatically, and I'll get a bonus if you sign it.
Early 2000s: Carrying a Siemens A50 brick, and getting chased by collectors to pay carrier bills made out of thin airAh, my Siemens A50. I'm not a thousand percent sure, but to the best of my memory, this was my first phone ever. Everyone always gloats about the legendary Nokia 3310, but this… this wasTwo games – Stack Attack and Balloon Shooter! That's all I cared about at age 13.
Well, except maybe for not getting chased by a seemingly random phone carrier years later, because evidently I owed them money. I know for a fact that the phone carrier in question no longer exists, and was sued for doing this to many other clients also, which is how a scam normally falls apart – by shamelessly, and very publicly overdoing it.2010: My Sony Walkman phone, and the insane internet and roaming pricesThe cell phone world was progressing rapidly. Phones were now actually smartphones, although the name hadn't caught on yet. All of the sudden, they could play real songs, and even more impressively – videos.
To be fair, at this point I was reasonable enough to blame myself for not being better informed, but still felt like how this worked should've been conveyed to me. In literally any way. A little message to tell me my cellular internet cap was reached would've been nice, but alas. I would walk around with my cabled headphones plugged into the phone's headphone jack and occasionally ask the little AI person inside to call my dad, or play a song, or write a text message, and it worked.
And I actually went through all kinds of hoops to try and get my phone unlocked, from both the carrier, and local phone repair shops, but there was always a crutch. I couldn't have the carrier unlock the phone, because I was in another country now, and those third party options seemed… scammy.
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