Nokia fascinates me. I am one of those consumers that like to find a brand and stick with it. Mostly, I go to mid range products although, where quality really counts, I will go to the top - you just cannot beat a '72 Fender Precision bass. I drive a Toyota station wagon, ride a brand name surf board, use a HP computer and used to ride a Yamaha motor cycle.
Generally, the company behind most of these things doesn't really matter to me. It is only where my passions are raised that I will put in the effort to search out the best I can find. I tried out several bass guitars before we met (my Fender Precision and I) and I have been unswerving ever since. It wasn't the name Fender it was the feel, the balance, the sound and its responsiveness to doing what I wanted it to do.
I can still remember the experience of walking into the music store. Picking up the Fender Precision, plugging it in to an amp and immediately being transported to bass player heaven. That was more than thirty years ago. Some events in life do record at an indestructible soul level.
Stop reading for a moment! Take some time out for your own reflection. Close your eyes and go back to a better time. Think back to an event in your life when the experience touched your soul gently. The article will still be here when you get back, but, hopefully, you will have touched into a better space. Enjoy (visit my site and post your comment).
I guess that sort of experience comes back to the love and passion that the people making the object or event of your affections put into it that bringing the moment to life. I bet you have inanimate objects where your feelings blur from inanimate to intimate. That is probably appreciation of beauty, craftsmanship and care put in by the maker. (When I was five years old I slept with my birthday present - a football!)
As a consumer, I am more driven by reliability, function, quality and service than by fashion, fad or status. For example, I am not caught up in the need to constantly change the ring tone. Although I could download Hotel California, I still use the same default ring tone as Allison Dubois does on the TV series Medium - is that called product placement or bloody annoying?
Because my dream is to work from home for somewhat less than 20 hours per week, I opted for a reliable (sic expensive) desktop computer (to be paid from future - read unforthcoming, income). A laptop or cell phone 'bluetoothed' (as a verb?) to a Desktop PC just doesn't interest me. When I sit at the computer I like to have my desk, a biro, and at least a scribble pad close by, headphones on listening to CSN, and I feel I am' in the zone' with a glass of red and my extensive library around me. What creates you sanctuary, what gets you into your creative zone, music, sound, image, business, making money, giving gifts of assistance to others - what is it that stirs your soul in a peaceful and loving way?
I tend to not carry my music with me because it would somehow distort and cheapen my deep relationship with music. I don't like being interrupted while listening and, rather than jostle with time, crowds and other environment issue, I like the sanctuary of my music. Devices that let you bring your music with you, for me, do not create the same sense of solitude and sanctuary.
When you get to that stage where you have to take your music wherever you go, has your music shifted from an escape to become your prison and does this dependency deteriorate the quality of what you see as sacred music Is something else going on? I think of the people in a train carriage whose distorted music can be heard half a carriage away -have hey become prisoners to noise?
Like Dr Charles Winchester on MASH 4077, has their music somehow twisted back upon them in betrayal? He listened to classical music to take him away from the war, when the war was over however; he knew that listening to his beloved classical music would always remind him of the war. What a terrible fate and savage irony for one's passion. I digress. Am I right about creating sanctuary or is it just that the cost of freedom is so high nowadays we have to take it at any price? Even in a carriage to the discomfort of our fellow journeymen?
In most areas, contemporary product offerings vary little between the major manufacturers. Take cars for instance. Some are so similar as to be indistinguishable at twenty feet. My car fits into the indistinguishable category but the brand has a fierce reputation for the reliability. That is good enough for me.
My relationship to Nokia is different however. It lies somewhere between the first time I laid eyes on my own Fender Precision and first listening to a new CD. I am not quite in love with Nokia but watching what they do is exciting. Following the evolution of Nokia products is, to me, akin to window shopping. I can see what is on offer without denting my credit card and it fascinates me.
In this case however, the window provides a deeper view into the shop that is our global culture. Because Nokia is constantly pushing the technology limits and through its propensity to forge and develop relations with other key players, looking into the Nokia window allows one to see what is happening at a more broad level. For instance, Nokia is pushing the boundaries that allow an individual to select a hand-held device that is optimised for entertainment, music and games and the undeniable practicality of the Internet.
All I am doing in this article, and (hopefully) series of articles - "What's Nokia Doing ?" is sharing thoughts and, like an apprentice craftsman, developing my technique as a writer. My fledgling site nokiamobileonline (please visit it and buy something) is primarily focused on Nokia but, for instance, it will (eventually) include an LG phone that has been set up as a blood monitor test and online monitoring facility. Now that really fascinates me! Hope you enjoy.
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