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What Does Your Phone Skin Say About You?
Jun 27th
A cellular phone skin (cover/protector) can come in many different colours, and materials which can say a lot about one’s personality. Here is my short list on what your phone skin could say about you. Please take this seriously as the following has been researched based on psychological science.
The Naked Phone (no skin)
You are a highly responsible and organized individual. Your phone does not dictate your identity as its primary use is for business purposes. You don’t feel your phone requires any protection as it usually sits in a holster on your hip, or at the side of your leather office bag. Furthermore, you know where your phone is located at all times and would never carelessly drop it due to any scatterbrain activity as this is completely against your nature.
Black Dark Coloured Rubber or Plastic Skin
You are a highly practical and a down to earth person. Your phone means quite a lot to you, yet you don’t want to draw attention to yourself or your phone as you relish those under the table tweets and quickie pillow talk texts. Furthermore, you didn’t think beyond having a suitable non-coloured protector to your phone which occasional dropping would protect.
Solid Colour Skin – White
You are a bold individual that is highly neat with a unique style. You own special cleaners for your phone and skin that you use on a daily basis. Your phone is always in perfect condition. You shudder at the thought of it being placed on a cement floor or wet bar; this would never happen.
Solid Colour Skin – Bright (Yellow, Pink, Green, Orange etc..)
Depending on your colour, you are a range of extroversion that may include the need to have people notice your phone and comment on its brilliant colour. You are loud and noticeable in your demeanour and feel that your phone should match that similar personality. You drop your phone a few times a week due to multi-tasking and frequent scatterbrained activity. Furthermore, you feel the need to switch up your bright colours as your tastes of colour and style change like the weather.
Intricately Designed Skin
You are a creative and unique person that believes your phone could be an actual living spirit. You have decorated your phone with jewels, caricatures, or purchased uniquely designed skins of graphics with a mixture of colours. You are most likely an iPhone user who enjoys music, application use and taking pictures – you may aspire or take part in design or creation of ideas as your profession.
Whichever skin your cell phone wears, whether it is unconsciously or deliberately, be mindful that it generally doesn’t go unnoticed. It is directly related to your personality and mobile lifestyle.
iPhone vs. Blackberry – Clashing of Mobile Personalities
Jun 19th
Today we are introducing a series of articles on the Mobile Lifestyle. Jas Banwait is a fashion and technology entrepreneur, and, having her foot in both doors, wants to explore the ways we interact with our devices, and why we choose the ones we do. In this first in a series of articles, Jas looks at the not-so-friendly rivalry between the iPhone and Blackberry. Let the battle begin!
iPhone vs. Blackberry – Clashing of Mobile Personalities
Have you ever thought of your phone as being an extension of yourself and a dictator of your relationships? Is it not the first thing that you look at before you go to bed and when you wake up? It sits dutifully beside you at work and forgetfully calls those lost loves as it jiggles in your pocket/purse while at play. Your life literally revolves around the small device that carries personal messages, business contacts, and incriminating photos.
Some of us are fiercely loyal towards our brand of phone – namely iPhone or Blackberry. But we still befriend one another. Yet, much of our conversations will ensue through these clashing mobile personalities – how can we stand it!?
What, with the ability of an iPhone to send text messages in the wrong order to Blackberries is enough to make someone question their mobile sanity. (Okay fine, older versions of Blackberry do this too).
Every day, we see more and more iPhone applications with no matching Blackberry one. I am left having to find an iPhone user to download said app for me to explore. How sad and pathetic. But alas, I am still loyal to my Blackberry (with a bit of wavering after the hype of iPhone 4).
Here are some helpful tips on how to defend yourself when faced with a clashing mobile personality:
- Being friends is okay, but dating someone with a phone of the opposite kind is a ticket into miscommunication hood. Be careful.
- Your strongest argument for the Blackberry is its amazing email/messaging capabilities – milk this for all its worth when confronted with an arrogant iPhone user.
- Your lifeline is your charger – do not leave home without it, otherwise you will be left with actually making conversation face to face; there is no app for that.
- Create an amazingly cool application for the Blackberry just to spite iPhone users. (Ed. I’ll believe it when I see it).
- Ensure your phone has a skin, you don’t want to be caught naked – who knows your iPhone may be mistaken for a Blackberry or visa versa. This will help avoid discriminatory conversations.
The mobile lifestyle is all about choices in mobile fashion. It’s sometimes hard to decide what camp you want to commit to; it’s hard enough with all the choice out there. But when it comes down to Blackberry or iPhone, it’s about priorities: messaging or apps. Practicality or hotness.
In the long term, it doesn’t really matter. It’s just a phone. Right?
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