It's week one hundred and two of #weekend-engagement and the this entry is made in response to the question below.
Has there been a product you simply loved, a favourite, but can no longer get it? Tell us what is was, why you liked it and how you feel about losing it. Also explain how you've worked around the loss.
I have come in contact with different product in different areas of life ranging from dresses, electronics and many other belongings that I later lost but the one I really want to talk about now is phone.
About a decade and half ago, I purchased a Nokia phone (Nokia 2310).
Before then, I had dreamt to use phone someday. It hadn't been long that telecommunications through handset penetrated Nigeria. I bought the phone with so much sense of fulfilment. I think as at then, that was the most expensive product I ever bought.
Many features of the phone made it to be so dear and irreplaceable to me. When I was using the phone, epileptic power supply was not much a problem because the phone's battery was so strong that if I charged it once, it took me for one week. As a result, the fear of not being reachable on phone due to low battery wasn't a thing of concern.
The phone was portable with easy to understand features for a novice.
The quality of the materials from which the phone was made was superb. I am a type of person that is careless with phone when it comes to phones falling off from one's hand at the slightest mistake. The Nokia 2310 fell off my hand uncountable times and each time it fell, I would just pick the dismantled parts up and couple them together and it would begin to work normal. I used the phone for good five years without any hitch before it was unfortunately hijacked from me by thieves.
I was returning home on an evening through a path that was most of the times quiet. I put earpiece and was listening to radio on the phone when I met two men who after exchanging greetings and gone past one other, called me back for an enquiry. Immediately I turned back and met them, they removed knives from their waist and demanded for the phone. I thought of giving a fight for my precious phone but I thought about my safety seeing two knives and changed my mind. That was how the phone was collected from me.
Soon after that, I tried getting that type of phone but couldn't find it in the market. People have been telling me about android phones before then. I decided to buy an android phone few weeks after. Though my new phone came with some features that made it more sophisticated in browsing and other few activities, it wasn't able to fit into the shoe of my Nokia in the area of durability when roughly handled and the battery life.
In less than a year, I changed the screen of the phone more than twice.
Over the years, I have used many brands of android phones but the memory of that lovely Nokia of mine won't leave in a hurry. I was able to cope with the absence of the Nokia by purchasing another small phone (with stronger battery than android but not in anyway close to my lovely Nokia) which I used with android.
Thank you for your time. If you want to participate in the lovely #weekend-engagement concept by @galenkp , check it out here.
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