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How has a mobile phone wrecked your life?

(, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 12:14)
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Bluejacking
was a favourite sport of mine for a while. Airports were the best places to do it, as there was a ready supply of victims, and most businessmen of the time (about 5 years back) had the favoured phone, the Nokia 6310i. This didn't have a security function which required the user to accept incoming Bluetooth connections, so it would accept anything.

It was a bit of a clunky affair, as you had to set up a message as a contact or a note, and then send it as a business card by Bluetooth. But I used to have great fun waiting for the "Bee-Beep, Bee-Beep", then seeing the confused look on some poor bloke's face as a random and surreal message appeared on his phone screen.

I never had the guts to be nasty and send "I know where you live" type messages though.

But my best moment came a couple of years later, when I found a phone in the Bluetooth list named 'Send Me Porn'.

So I did.

And the phone's owner returned the favour.

Result!

Inspired by the post below
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 12:59, 3 replies)
6310i
What a phone. I had the (mis)fortune of having to use one of those for a few months after a numpty lobbed my previous one at a floor. My friends still cant believe that an 8 year old phone has bluetooth.

Score on the pr0n though (Y)
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 13:13, closed)
I had one for ages
It was a great phone. No bells or even whistles, other than BT, but I've yet to find a phone which was as good for voice calls and which has such a good battery life.

I have to charge my current phone every night. My 6310i would go a week and more, easily.
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 13:33, closed)
I still use mine
It's my work phone. It has normal ringtones, a battery life of practically forever, and can withstand being dropped repeatedly. Because of the last one, it's also handily child-proof.
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 14:44, closed)

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