Happy 5th Birthday and Goodbye

Not being overly sentimental or nostalgic, I have to say that my Motorola Razr phone has served me incredibly well over the past years, but as with any of the products these days built for planned obsolescence, it has over the last half year or so not been functioning properly.  Yes, I have tried to replace its battery (twice), but the fact of it is that it has ceased to work.  Old age for a phone having been already reached- I know of nobody who has a phone that has lasted longer- it is time to bid it adieu.  So, it was on the day after its fifth birthday that I decided to switch phones- to the only one which I thought could serve its aesthetic and formal purpose- the Blackberry Torch.  Yes, I contemplated for quite some time the Iphone as I am a Mac user (although the crash of my computer a few months back has made me a suspicious one) but can't get over the trendiness of their products.  I would also have to say that the recent advertisements in Monocle for the Torch were executed brilliantly (despite the fact that I found out that they were mock-ups filmed in London and not the Swiss Alps) and seeing an extremely attractive person seated next to me yesterday at lunchtime owning a Blackberry helped to seal the deal.   Serious things are serious, but shallow things sometimes are quite fun too.

out with the old, in with the new.  in black, of course.