Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Samuel B. Shaw '99, a pioneer among cell phone owners, stresses the toy aspect of having a phone, claiming that his new toy "brings a little light into my life...
...phone can run from around $100 upward; it is an expensive new toy for so many people to be investing in. There have to be other reasons for there to be bevvies of enthusiastic phone talkers than just because...
...rationales against phones is that in our enclosed universe one is always near an accessible telephone; from someone's room to a Centrex or a friendly pay phone, it isn't hard to place a call. But for pay phones you need to find 35 cents or remember your calling card number. Always a pain. And Centrexes have the whole privacy issue. Someone calls up and you hear the customary static and background noise. "How are you?" And then you can broadcast your personal business over a rather wide radius. Not so fun. And you can only call Harvard people...
...course, the assumption is that these new toys, even if terribly useful for coordinating social lives and being accessible, are very expensive. But cell phones are practically competitive with the less-than-excellent Harvard phone plan. With Sprint PCS, you can get 700 minutes of calling time a month within a local calling area for $35 a month, and for $50 a month you can get 500 minutes free nationwide. So for the same amount I pay the Harvard Telephone Office, or even less, I can have a spiffy little toy, and Mom can reach me all the time...
...your phone will vibrate every time you get e-mail, each time someone leaves a message on your machine and, of course, when there is someone at the other end of the line...