So Steve and I were talking about our phones. And then things got silly, as usual.

It all began innocently, as he brought up the all-too-common phenomenon of the T9 (predictive typing) system’s habit of periodically forgetting all the new words you’ve taught it.

Steve:	my phone seems to have forgotten most of the words I’ve taught it over the last few months, which is pretty irritating
Matt:	yeah mine lost its list too the other day, before I got the new one
Matt:	think it did it to spite me
Steve:	mine just seems to have done it to piss me off
Steve:	my old one did it sometimes, but it’d only lose one or two at a time. This phone seems to have killed off my most common key combinations in one fell swoop.
Steve:	perhaps it’s a “lets piss off the customers” tactic, so that when they run out of ideas or 3G doesn’t take off, they can market phones with new and improved text prediction.
Steve:	and it’ll be called T-X-10000 rather than the inferior “T9”
Matt:	maybe it’ll be called T1000
Matt:	and will have the ability to change your phone into solid metal stabbing weapons
Matt:	man that would be cooool
Steve:	That might be surprisingly useful.
Matt:	so they’re all like “give us your phone big man” and you’re all like “I’ll give you my phone alright, you young tearaways”
Matt:	then you stab them in the eye
Steve:	No, you stab them between their eyes and right through the back of their heads
Matt:	with your SWORD-O-PHONE™
Steve:	I want one.
Matt:	dude I know what you mean
Matt:	damn their marketing. they had us right from the start.
Steve:	Of course, it might not be as cool as a phone/light saber combo
Matt:	this is certainly true
Steve:	voice calls, sms, gprs, video conferencing, and built-in light saber
Matt:	you’re never getting that as a free upgrade from O2 though. You’re talking about £150 at least, and that’s with the student discount
Matt:	I’d still totally buy it though

I mean, who wouldn’t buy one?