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Flytxt's own "Neo", AKA Pamir Gelenbe, co-founder of Flytxt, is consistently disappointed by the lack of sophistication of today's mobile users, especially given what is possible with a mobile phone today. He takes us through a typical day in his mobile enabled life…
03:30
Awoken in the middle of the night by a picture message, which has been triggered from my home in France. It has an alarm system that detects motion, takes a picture and forwards it to my phone. It drives my girlfriend mad, especially because it's been set off by a stray cat! I promise myself to organise a trip home; it's been months since I've seen my aunt who lives nearby.
07:00
Three and a half hours later, I'm woken up again. I've downloaded my favourite song, Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful', as a true tone and set it as my alarm. Funnily enough, it's less and less my favourite song every day.
07:30
I'm going to a developers' forum on Java applications this morning in Cambridge. As usual, I've left thinking about how I'm going to get there until the last minute. I check out the train times on my phone. The next train leaves in 30 minutes. I can just make it if I get my skates on. Before logging off, I automatically send a text to my phone, which I check again on my way.
08:07
Making my train by the skin of my teeth, I haven't had time to buy a paper for the journey, so try get comfortable in my seat and settle into today's top news stories on my phone.
08:20
Already restless, I activate Bluetooth on my handset. In doing this, I automatically transform into a secret spy. I can identify other Bluetooth enabled handsets in my carriage. One of the cool things you can do with Bluetooth is challenge other handsets owners to multi-player games. With GPRS enabled handsets, you literally have a world of gamers to choose from!
Although I'm a gamer, I have another motive for activating my Bluetooth. It also means that I can send messages to other enabled handsets, completely anonymously. When I'm feeling extremely mischievous, I send bizarre images, which confuses the hell out of people! Most people leave their Bluetooth activated and not everyone knows what it is, so they have no idea where they've come from.
This time, however, I've underestimated my compartment companion. I surreptitiously Bluetooth an unusual photo I keep of cow bearing its teeth to the user, sitting somewhere within a 10 metre radius of me. To my surprise, 30 seconds later I receive a Bluetooth back. They've Blue-toothed me a mooner! My expression must have given me away; I spot someone who's been hiding behind a newspaper close by begin to shake with laughter.
An unbelievable coincidence - it turns out to be someone I attended lectures with at college, on his way to the same seminar. Technology makes the world a scarily small place.
08:45
Before pulling into Cambridge station, my acquaintance remembers that the cab queues at the station are long, so he goes to his phone's Directories and books a local cab. It costs 50 pence, but we're in a cab as we step off the train, and arrive at the seminar on the dot of 09:00.
13:00
The seminar turns out to be worth the trip to Cambridge, and when I step outside, I discover it's a gorgeous bright autumnal day and decide to walk back to the station. I get directions from my phone by plugging in the post-code from the seminar invite print out. 50 pence in the pocket of the mobile operator, but I console myself with the thought that the pricing model for these services has change one of these days and feel virtuous that it's exercise and I'm saving money on a cab fare.
13:30
On the train on my way back I get a call from a friend who I haven't been in touch with for ages. Feeling the prankster in me coming on again, I decide not to answer immediately, but to use a new voicemail technology that I've downloaded to my phone to play another trick. The software allows you to listen in to the message as its being left and also interrupt the speaker, if you want to speak to them. It's a handy piece of kit, especially if you're like me, and have handed out your mobile number too many times. As my friend is leaving a chatty message, I interrupt, pretending to be the answer machine, adopting my well-rehearsed robotic voice. I manage to completely freak him out for a few moments, but then he guesses what's going on. He's smart and I guess he's known me for too long… ;)
14:30
Planning my next holiday as I walk back from the tube station, I go to the Time Out 'City Guides', one of the choices on my menu bar and go to Nice, France. I check out the blurb and the photos before going to eating and drinking section - my favourite past time. Then straight to Lastminute.com to book flights. It crashes a couple of times, but I finally get there.
15:30
I touch base with my colleagues before replying to emails. Although I check emails on my handset, I prefer to reply to them from my computer, otherwise it takes three times as long!
17:00
Half way through the afternoon, I give myself a teatime break and play my favourite game on Game Arcade, 'Marcel Desailly'. After choosing my team line up, I (France) plays Senegal and whips them into shape, finishing 2 goals to nil.
21:00
After getting down to a few hours serious work in the office, I head for home. As a joke for my girlfriend I download an application from vibelet.com, which transforms my handset into a vibrator! There are more than the obvious advantages of being a technophile.. ;)
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