Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

Welcome back, younger self! Stay here for a while. Yes, this phone has brought back strong memories. To be honest, I didn't have this exact model; I had the K310i, which was basically the same phone, just without Bluetooth and with an even worse camera than this one. Overall, though, they're the same.



So, to give you an idea, the K310i was the first phone I had with a colour display. I really enjoyed it. Honestly, that era was possibly the best for mobile games, as there were lots of high-quality titles and no need to be online or pay to win. It was just pure gaming in your pocket, wherever you went.

The 'app store' was in every printed magazine. You could browse pages of games, wallpapers and polyphonic ringtones. When you wanted one, you had the exact phone number and text to send in an SMS message. After sending that, you received an MMS containing the items you had ordered. It was awesome!

Even better was sharing the games. Not many phones were capable of sending games straight away. As I recall, only some Siemens phones could "pack" the installed game and send it. Otherwise, you needed to keep 'installers' (JAR files) in your very limited memory and send them from there. But it was such an adventure to find a new game from one of your friends!

What was even funnier was sharing it via InfraPort, as that was the only way to share content on my old K310i. Today's phones have the luxury of Bluetooth, which transfers games and MP3s at lightning speed.

But it was great fun and very adventurous to transfer a half-megabyte MP3 containing part of your favourite song via the InfraPort. It usually took around half an hour. And why just part of the song? Because you only had 26 MB of drive space, so there wasn't enough to waste.

I remember how popular I was when I discovered StrongDC and file-sharing servers. I downloaded hundreds and hundreds of games and bought a cable to connect my phone to my PC, which was a really expensive purchase. Every day, I filled my memory with installers and shared the games with all my friends and almost the whole school.

So, yes, I have written a lot, but not on the topic of the article, which I regret. But honestly, these are really strong memories from that time, when finding and getting mobile software was a real adventure and experimenting with the distance between phones that could still transfer data via the infrared port was pure joy.

Leave me alone now. I'm going to play The Cars, Swen 007, Prince of Persia and, of course, Gravity Defied. So, smoke me a kipper — I'll be back for breakfast!