nathan williams | simiant.com

Stood on the tube next to me this morning was a “youth” of the female variety (Romford face lift, track-suit, gold hoops, you know what I mean). She was texting away furiously on her phone writing a very long message, then I noticed something, her phone had no keypad! From what I could make out it was an oldish Nokia, the kind with removable covers, with obviously the cover removed to leave behind a set up unmarked white pressure switches. Now I has a clear view of her screen and could see that what she was typing were actual words as opposed to gobledigook. She was also able to navigate the address book etc, again from memory of the key pad layout. A new trend? Some kind of ‘ultimate txtr’ status symbol? Or simply too lazy / poor to buy a new cover? (uh so this has spawned a new category for the blog, ‘youth watch’ in a totaly I’m not a nonce kinda way)