It has been ages since I started a new blog series, but for the last couple of weeks an idea for a new series has been brewing: My Techviews.

As you can guess from the title it is not going to be about movies (although there surely will be some tech/movie related posts), but it is a new series where I will be sharing my thoughts about tech related things. This might sometimes be some new tech I think is awesome, but it could also be about my frustrations with them. I hope you will enjoy reading this new series as much as I like writing it.

Mobile Phones

The first subject? Mobile phones. Around 80 percent of people (5.9 billion) own a mobile phone and that number is quickly growing. I have had one since 1999 and in those 14 years I have probably owned about 6 or 7 different models, so roughly a new one every 2 years. The reason for upgrading was easy for a while, since you would get one for “free” when renewing your contract and phones were quickly changing, being able to perform more fuctions. A couple of years ago I started looking at the costs and realised it would be cheaper to buy the phone myself and just get a “sim only” subscription, which is a lot cheaper. After this, the only time to upgrade my phone would usually be when it didn’t work properly anymore, but looking around me I feel like I am one of the few people doing it that. Continue reading →