Back in mid-September I was bored and decided to subject myself to the Nokia 1100 challenge. Basically I picked up a Nokia 2610 from the T-Mobile store and threw my Blackberry Curve into my desk drawer.
The original challenge asked if you could last with a low tech phone for 30 days and on that I succeeded. I lasted exactly two months and six days before I fell out of my low tech tower and picked up a new G1 (Google phone) from the T-Mobile store. At first the challenge was fun. It was nice and peaceful not being interrupted by bullshit emails. I would go an entire weekend without worrying about what was in my inbox. But trying to write anything on that little phone is next to impossible for a guy like me that has had some kind of full qwerty phone for the last 3 years. Do you have any idea how hard it is to update Twitter with T9 when you’re drunk? It’s friggin’ impossible.
The challenge wasn’t a total bust. It really showed me that I don’t need my email pushed to me instantaneously. Even though my new G1 will auto-sync with my Gmail account I turned that feature off. I will check my email when I want to not when my phone wants to.
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