As many of you will know, I work in the Technology sector; particularly the Network tech’ sector.

I work with people who are constantly connected, who have £500 plus mobile phones, some of whom have £1000 plus mobiles. Their device processing power is ten to the many times greater than the entire processing power of the entire Nasa programme which put some suited men on a large sphere orbitting the earth about a quarter of a million miles away. It astonishing just how much computing power we walk around with every day, sometimes so we can read our email, sometimes to see how the Ashes series is progresssing. Occasionally, oddly, some even watch an American woman inhaling a shoal of fish.

Nokia have recently announced the launch of a new mobile ‘phone, a clam shell feature ‘phone, the N 2720 Flip. When it is launched I will be making a purchase.

On the back of that I thought I would document my current tech’ set up, what I use in my daily and weekly life and what, if anything I am missing. Spoiler: nothing.

First of all, my current main device. I am using the recently launched Nokia 8110. The Guardian gave it the nomenclature of the Banana ‘phone. This is my main talking device. It rings, I answer it. I need to make a call; I open it and dial. It is small, robust but more importantly, I get a week from the battery, between charges. Really, a week. It is both 3G and 4G capable, has a wi-fi connection as well, but, most importantly, can also act as a wifi hub, allowing me to share my 3G / 4G connection with something else.

Which brings me to that something else. My primary, mobile, data device is my Gemini PDA. It is brilliant. Regular readers will be familiar with the Gemini and its spiritual heritage the Psion 5MX PDA. The Gemini has a full, mini’ keyboard. A proper, physical keyboard. There is a built in webcam, a speaker and a mic’ at both ends for a decent stereo sound and excellent noise cancelling, a sim slot [which I don’t use] and a slot for a micro SD card, for up to 256Gigs of additional storage. Additional to the built in 64Gigs of storage. Coupled with the Nokia’s shared data / wi-fi connection I can go online and have a full data experience, using a solid, capable device, about the size of a large smartphone but ten to the many times more useful and more capable than any smartphone.

But what of photographs ? I have never really been a fan or using a mobile ‘phone to take pictures. I don’t use any of the myriad of advertising data-mongers such as Facebook, Facebooks picture based data slurper Instragram, Facebooks contact lists data-hogger What’s App, the location tracking look at me site Twitter or any of the other panoply of advertising trackers masquerading as a service. Instead I use a camera. An actual camera. My current camera is a FujiFilm X30. Before that I had an X20, which, stupidly, I ran over with a fully loaded car, crushing it.

I do enjoy my X30 and, for me, I am more than prepared to sacrifice a small amount of convenience of carrying it compared to the vastly superior image quality of the X30 over any mobile ‘phone. No matter what the Cupertino marketing bod’s like to think. Oh, and the X30 is one third of the price of Apples current locked in device.

I do have a smartphone, which is my first generation Jolla, running the remarkable and revolutionary Sailfish O/S, many of the excellent features of this device have been snaffled by both Apple and Google who in then turn celebrate them with whoops and screams of exctasy.

I do have to admit though that my Jolla, my only smartphone, spends most of it’s time in the car, connected to my cars audio, playing audiobooks and podcasts. Re-purposing tech’.

Happy days.