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I'm tired of politics and economics. So I started looking for a new phone, and I decided to to try and understand the evolution of the mobile phone through the phone that I owned, and to figure out what I'm actually looking for in my next device. So here it goes: Ericsson T388 Year of purchase: 1997. Wireless technology: brain-frying TDMA Battery life: standby time of 40 hours, easily replaceable. Display type: 3-line, alpha-numeric, black and white LCD. What I liked about it: It was my first mobile phone, it was fairly compact, it never restarted and it fit perfectly inside a military vest. What I disliked about it: It was small but bulky, awful battery life (and it tended to detouch), the mouth piece broke easily and was mostly useless. Conclusion: You never forget your first one. For good or worse. Nokia 6120 Year of purchase: 1999 Wireless technology: TDMA Battery life: About 2 weeks. Display type: black and white LCD What I liked: It was much slimme

I don't believe in invisible, unproven things. They may exist, and people surely religiously believe in them (literally) but when they fail, they do it so spectacularly and inexplicably. When an airplane crashes, it also does it spectacularly, but at least you can gather hard evidence and explain what happened, how it happened, and whether we can prevent it in the future. When one of the "invisible hands" - the of god and the one of the market fails, we can usually explain what happened, but we can rarely explain how it happened and we can never prevent things of happening in the future. When an airplane crashes, the solutions that are being given may include re-engineering the failed parts, changes to the maintenance procedures or sometimes, simply decide to stop using the aircraft altogether, like the Concorde in 2003. But the believers in those invisible hands, will still religiously protect their beliefs, saying things like "we lost our faith, that's why we