Why I love my Motorola F3
My last phone got run over. The one before that I dropped in the sink.
They were both advanced and quite expensive at the time; so losing both was a blow. They could both could take decent quality photos, record decent (For a phone) video, connect to the internet etc, which was all great, and part of me still yearns for whatever technology offers currently. However, I decided my next phone would be cheap, practical, simple. Cheap enough to be almost disposable: I wanted a phone I didn’t have to care about.
What I found was the Motorola Motophone F3. It’s features agree with the terms I set:
Simplicity: The F3’s most advanced feature is SMS. There is no camera, no internet connectivity. There are no games. I think I could say it’s the epitamy of simplicity in mobile phones.
Practicality: The user interface, though a little difficult to master and generally poorly designed, allows me to do everything I want to do quickly and simply.
Price: £12!
The F3 tells me the time and lets me make phone calls. It also clearly tells me that I can do so, with the signal and battery status displayed at the top of the screen. It is 9mm thick and survived a drop as soon as I unpacked it (See this video for further bludgeoning and a review). There’s two weeks (Standby) battery life. It’s so cheap it’s practically disposable. I don’t want to worry about it. It’s what I want.
Screw the iPhone, I love my F3. (This is not to say I wouldn’t swap it for an iPhone if anyone’s interested though …)
F3 on Amazon, CNET, Motorola official and GearDiary.