Thread: Ever showed your new phone to a person with a really old computer?

I have this neighbor who is older and doesnt know much about technology, beyond his computer which is like 5,343 years old, and still has windows 3.1... I think. Maybe windows 95... but it belongs in a museum. He insists that the new computers "arent really any better", but that they just keep making new ones, so that people will keep buying them.


I showed him my blackberry, which is far more capable than his computer.... of course, and he was blown away. It was like he was shaken out of his little reality

Hehe... you shook the old man. :D I agree that the Blackberry is a great phone!

My grandparents were absolutely amazed what I could do with my iPod Touch and my HTC G1. I was browsing the web faster on my phone than on their computer. Yes, they did have High Speed, just a 1.2Ghz proc and 256 of RAM.

Was a good read and it made me laugh. It must be awesome to look at the faces of people that are shocked by the latest kind of technology. It must have been priceless. Yeah, Blackberry is a good phone, but I don't have one. But I'm happy with my iPhone. But I still haven't shown my phone to a person with a prehistoric computer.

I cant do that, my phone has probbably the same age as their computers.

I dont spend that much money on a phone, when i can text and call, thats all i need.
I only change phones when the battery is broke

I still have an old IBM thinkpad lying around. And from time to time I do play DOS games on it.

I am embarrassingly antiquated. Got this Dell which was original XP and a enV1 which is 4+ years old. So I'd be that old guy who has small heart attacks, except I always grab my friends' iPhones for surfing.

i always tried to avoid this scenario when i'm down in mexico