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Mobile phone fashion competition

No star here laces

14:33 / 30.10.02

ringtones! graphics! press-on covers!

Discuss your sexy phones.

Mine plays 'without me' and says 'gangsta' on it. This makes me look cool to 12 year olds. Who does yours appeal to? Or are you all way too mature and non-materialistic to indulge in such things?

14:37 / 30.10.02

I am way too mature and non-materialistic to indulge in such things. Plus, I don't have money to buy a cell phone.

14:41 / 30.10.02

In a knowing Britpop kind of way, my Nokia had a union jack cover and played the theme tune to the Sweeney.

My new Motorola is rubbish for ringtones, and you can't change the covers, but it is a nice titanium finish.

14:46 / 30.10.02

Lyra> Why would you want to look "cool" to 12 year olds?

Mine is encased in the skin of a Copperbellied Water Snake.

My tune is the zither-based theme from The Third Man.

I get insatiable txt messages from American Indie Pop Stars demanding I remix their latest hit singles.

I am so much cooler than you.

14:46 / 30.10.02

It's a phone. I call people, then put it back in my pocket. Mine's got a not very artful scratch on the face which helps distinguish it from my girlfriend's phone which is, in all other respects, identical. If it rings I don't answer.

And I don't care about anyone's fucking ringtone.

14:47 / 30.10.02

I've got a groovy wee Nokia that glows in the dark, but it has a very prosaic ring-ring ringtone.

I fell in love with a new Sharp camera phone last week and am fighting the urge to be stupid and buy one.

14:48 / 30.10.02

My mobile has been referred to as a brick. And that was a year ago, so it's even more out of date now. It has only the ring tones it came with, and its not possible to add new ones. It's matt black (and will stay that way because it does not have interchangeable covers) with a 'laa laa' (the Teletubby) sticker on the back and some dark gold paint (accidentally) splattered on it

Btw, no topic abstract? Oh, the humanity.

14:51 / 30.10.02

You guys are getting old, next you'll be slagging off that crazy dance music

15:07 / 30.10.02

I refuse to have bright colours and annoying tunes on mine. It's bad enough that I have to have the damn thing at all...

And all that crazy dance music really sucks doesn't it?

uncle retrospective

15:12 / 30.10.02

Well I have a really bright red phone, which used to match my hair.
As for ring tones I have
Main ring tone, the Imperial march
Then,
harvester of sorrows
the main good, the bad and the ugly theme
Indiana Jones theme
Zombie nation (old joke)
and for no reason I can work out, what's my age again is on there.
I am the 'Lith devil.

16:35 / 30.10.02

No good for me because I have a Siemens, but I reckon you could win this competition by making a Barbelith logo here.

Can you Nokia people forward these to each other?

Perhaps you could post a screenshot/photo so everyone could see.

No star here laces

08:01 / 31.10.02

Hah, Pepsi, the very fact that you think american indie pop stars are cooler than 12 year olds just proves what a no-hoper you are. In fact my phone accessories are like a kind of fashion Schroedingers cat, neither here nor there. The mobile is in fact the true ego vessel - the mobile-less are mere automatons where we bestride the universe like tinkling colossi. This thread is not nearly bitchy enough.

08:46 / 31.10.02

Lyra> You're twisting my words. I never said I thought:

american indie pop stars are cooler than 12 year olds

I simply said:

I am so much cooler than you.

My position in this whole debate is: I'd like to smear The Strokes in chocolate and skunk weed and then lock them in a cage with a class of 30 year seven students from a Peckham comprehensive.

Fine sport.

my phone accessories are like a kind of fashion Schroedingers cat

You mean they've been gassed by a heartless scientist in an unperformable thought experiment designed to highlight the absurdities of the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Physics?

Well, it's unusual I'll grant you. But still not cool, you loser.

pointless and uncalled for

11:00 / 31.10.02

I have the plain phone in dark blue. The ring-tone is on Uberloud, as is the message notifier. I built the profile to the same specs as loud but turned off the ass-wipe graphic and named it Eye-Com.

I have since discovered that is it far cooler to treat your phone like the communication tool that it is than to turn it into a Star Trek Bleating Liberace Box.

Whisky Priestess

16:45 / 31.10.02

The Star Trek Bleating Liberace Box ... now there's a gadget I haven't yet acquired... hmm. I hope it's hand-finished in genuine 24-karat rhinestones and lovingly assembled by underage Filipino slavechildren? It better be, you know, or else I shan;t buy it and then the entire gadget economy of the WORLD will collapse! (Think I'm joking? Ask anyone who knows me it's true. Gadgets are my crack.)

Anyway ... hours and hours of staring at ads for the once-new Treo handset (plus my old phone getting stolen) finally took their toll - depite the fact that purchasing one of these rinky-dinky PDA-cum-websurfything-cum-phones meant signing another year's contract with the devil (once known as Cellnet, now O2) I went and did it anyway, and the little beggar has served me well so far.

I have to say that it terms of customisability it has so far proved pretty crap - I'm sure it can download ringtones (I want the A-Team theme)but I can't be arsed, it can probably have a screensaver but I don't know where to get them from, and its subtle silver casing has so far resisted attempts at customisation because it's already so *goddamn beautiful*.

So there ... sing it with me ... "Treo! Tre-ee-ee-o! I want a Treo and I want one now!"

Goodness Gracious Meme

16:48 / 31.10.02

"My position in this whole debate is: I'd like to smear The Strokes in chocolate and skunk weed and then lock them in a cage with a class of 30 year seven students from a Peckham comprehensive."

*sings*

"did you ever know that you're my hee-rrro?"

20:54 / 31.10.02

I have a silver Nokia with a blue screen. The ringtone is the first couple of bars from the Sisters of Mercy "Temple of Love" - originally done to shit my uber-goth friends, and now I kinda like it. I have a dangly Bruce Lee with nanchuka on it that my brother brought back from Japan for me.

Oh yeah, and a flashy light thing on the back.

21:31 / 31.10.02

I use an old Nokia. It has no press on cover and is instead rather sensibly furnished with the black cover with which it came. It also has a very sensible ring sound for an incoming call. Bah humbug...

Jack The Bodiless

22:15 / 31.10.02

I am another tiny and scary man who has 'Tubular Bells' as his ring tone. And a seedy goth cover which most of Barbelith/London has seen and gone "ooooooh" at.

Hey, at least it's the theme from The Exorcist. And due to bleepy Mike Oldfield shit, needs no alteration to sound perfect as a ringtone...

pointless and uncalled for

10:05 / 01.11.02

Jack, for the high crime of Tubular Belling your personal communications device I will be supplying you with a penis phone cover and then cramming it rigourously into your ear.

10:37 / 01.11.02

i just got my first ever mo-fo and i want to have an exciting and brilliant tune as my ringtone, like, oh i don't know, crossroads by blazin squad. but why do they cost like a million pounds to get? can you get them for free on line?

10:48 / 01.11.02

I have miserlou as my ringtone.
As my fucking ringtone.
And I got it for free.For drinking beer
I'm the coolest.
So there.

11:24 / 01.11.02

OK, really. What is it with fucking ringtones? I wanted to stick lit cigarrettes in my ears every time I was on the bus in London with Roth because EVERY GODDAMN PERSON ON THE BUS would let their phone ring and ring, as if they were under the impression that I gave a shit about their ringtone. They'd sit there, device in hand, staring transfized as if they actually enjoyed the sick, wheezing blips. As if the constant sheep-like bleating of celphones wasn't bad enough, now I've got to listen to some pathetic aging punk who has a sub-midi version of "Rock the Casbah" as a ringtone? Kill me.

The Natural Way

11:35 / 01.11.02

Seconded. They're not big, clever, wacky or funny and all they tell me about YOU as an INDIVIDUAL is utter bastardom (even if yr really very nice and fluffy). DON'T LET THEM RING AND RING! WE DON'T CARE!

Lyra just knew some of us were going to respond like this......

12:21 / 01.11.02

And the best bit: people pay for ringtones?

That's like putting down the lst of your cash and saying, "Yes, I'd like piles, please. And is this enough to get them for everyone?"

16:58 / 01.11.02

Lyra just knew some of us were going to respond like this

Truly. Custom ringtones, combined with custom PC sounds closely resembles my Room 101. All it needs to make it complete are gas-powered leaf blowers.

17:13 / 09.11.02

i made my own ringtone! it's demi rep by bikini kill and i programmed it in myself. i rock.

01:11 / 22.08.06

I think I have found the winner here. You will need a spare USD$20,000.00 to buy one though... I could feed 500 people for a week for the cost of this, the world is going Nucking Futs I tell you... Money makes people wierd.

paranoidwriter waves hello

04:58 / 22.08.06

Yup, it's definitely time to eat the rich. But I don't need money to be weird though; I just need a few tools, enough food to eat, and (hopefully) enough peace of mind to sleep and dream when I want. Seriously, I'm so skint and losing financial hope so rapidly, I'll have to approach Bill Gates with a magic spoon and a weird twinkle in my eye if I want a new phone anytime soon.

As for my current mini-microwave machine. It's OK. I've had it for four years or more. It acts up every so often, but I don't use it that much really. I also don't have video phone capacity and whatnots, and I virtually never have any phone-credit anyway. But I do want a camera-phone though. Cool tool, eh? But I reckon at this rate there'll be cyber-implants in Oxfam before I can afford an upgrade.

I used to have the Close Encounters jingle-tune on my phone, but it got wiped again a while back, and I can't be arsed to sit and program notes into my phone all over again...

05:47 / 22.08.06

$20,000 cell phone? I wouldn't be caught dead with such a low-class trinket. Try a $300,000* cell phone for true ostentatious wealth.

*includes 4 megapixel camera.

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:37 / 23.08.06

I have one of those slidey Nokia things, and I have a song called Beat Myself as my ringtone.

Unfortunately, I discovered it's embarrassing to have the phone go off when you've got about the bloke who wrote the song in your car. Ahem.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:24 / 23.08.06

I'm sure that the desperate rolling of his eyes, chewing of his gag and straining against his bonds was expressing a kind of ironic, hey-isn't-that-crazy mutual amazement at the smallness of the world, Rothk.

All Acting Regiment

09:28 / 23.08.06

My phone has a ringtone I made, a slow crescendo of a fifth chord that gets louder louder louder LOUDER LOUDER

09:45 / 24.08.06

oh joy. I hope to god you don't use public transport Legba.

All Acting Regiment

12:56 / 24.08.06

Hee hee hee. HEE HEE HEE