I have a new phone. It took a while but I have decided my old phone does not meet my requirements any more.

Rather than go for something spectacular I have actually decided to go back in time.

The first phone I owned did the job and then they decided to make things smaller.

Then they made things bigger and now if you are a forty-something guy who wears pants you suffer.

It is okay if you are woman and can put the phone in your handbag but blokes need pocket space. Sooner or later you realise that bigger is not better.

A large phone in one pocket and wallet with receipts in another is not how I want to live my life.

I do not want to carry around a small TV screen. I want a small phone that I can answer without having to stop everything else.

I was put off by the big phone by people who pulled out notebooks complete with pens when they got a call. The sight of them made me laugh and then I realised they actually thought they looked good.

After a good twenty minutes in the shop I decided it was time to get back to basics and buy a phone out of necessity rather than want.

I need a phone to keep me in touch with people I do not really like. I realised I had 900 contacts on my phone – which is quite a lot. I only really call family and friends, everyone else is just well… there.

The invention of the mobile phone did many things but nothing more important than making organising football matches easier.

When once you had to go to and call at every single house – the mobile does the job for you.

I would say if I didn’t need to do this I could actually do without the phone.

My phone is pretty basic by today’s standards. It does the job.

There was a time when I bought the phone so I could show it off to my friends. Now, I don’t care what they think and if they do make a point of saying theirs is bigger than mine… then so be it.