How smart is your phone? | WireImage
(Picture: WireImage)‘What. The hell. Is that?’ My mate Joe stifled a laugh and pointed at the phone I had just set on our café table: a hot pink Nokia 105, roughly the size and shape of a slightly squashed Mars bar and equipped with nothing more advanced than a calculator, Snake and an FM radio tuner that didn’t really work that well.
Now, it would be reasonable to assume that, if it weren’t an especially punchable affectation, then this was an emergency measure; a temporary replacement for a smartphone that had been lost or smashed or accidentally drowned in a toilet bowl. But, no. At the time that this scene played out — in February, earlier this year — my perfectly functional iPhone sat in a drawer at home, I was on my way to a wi-fi-less hut in the middle of a field in Kent, and there was definitely method to the madness of partially cosplaying as a late-Nineties teenager.
