Published by Swiss James on 16 May 2007
Konka Pmpn
The phone I bought a few weeks back from Carrefour is mint. It’s a Konka D169, and cost 900 RMB (60quid).
When I went shopping I was basically looking for one that wouldn’t make an unsightly bulge in my ice-white lycra hot pants was thin. And this little number is thinner than a Humming Bird’s comb.
Now that I’ve had it a few weeks I’ve found you can set the alarm clock, ring-tone and wallpaper to be anything you want so I wake up to the The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun King“, have Richard D James as my background and when someone calls, the intro from “Leave Before The Lights Come On” by the Arctic Monkeys, delivering the Arockalypse to anyone in a 10m radius. Grrr!
Mind you, it has some weird features under the “Health” menu:
I tapped in my height and weight, sucking in my gut as I did so, and hoping for a bit of encouragement for my exercise regime.
Pulling no punches
Wiping away salty, oily tears I tried the next ‘feature’:
So there you go, I’m not fat after all, it was just water retention.