A mobile phone story

BY 3E Lau Cheuk Yin Alex

Every day, humans bring us to school and office. They always use us to chat with their friends, use Facebook and also play games. I am a mobile phone. I think you may have one too. You may be using your phone for games too. But I am an old model mobile phone, I am Nokia 3310.

In the past, I was a famous mobile phone. I had a high selling price. Only some rich people could buy me. After they bought me, they didn’t use me much because the fee of chatting was extremely expensive. It cost one dollar per minute.

Although I represented rich men in the past, now I was thrown into a dirty, dark drawer. Nowadays, there are a lot of different mobile phones which have a lot of functions. Their master can use them to play games and send messages. Although I also have games, messages in my system, I am too old-fashioned. Last year, I met a new mobile phone which was the most famous model in the world---iphone. He told me why no teens use me. It is because I can’t take photos; the monitor isn’t big enough and the most important thing is I am not a smart phone.

Five years ago, my master wanted to recycle me, so she took me out and put me in her pocket. When she was driving to the recycle store, there was a car behind her and hit her car and pushed it into a speeding train. She was dragged along for above half a mile.

 

She was terrified but she managed to make a call with her mobile phone. However, she forgot to bring her mobile phone ( the new one ). After 30 seconds, she realize she had brought me to recycle, so she took me out immediately and used me to dial 911. This was the first time she had used me in 10 years! I felt extremely happy that time. I still feel happy now because I have saved her life.

Finally, my master found out that the basic use of a mobile phone wasn’t playing games or using Facebook. So she sold her new phone and used me in the following years, until she died……