Travel and the Geekiness
March 3, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Editorial, SMS, Special Features
As a cellphone geek who’s been traveling around the neighboring Asian countryside I’ve developed an eccentricity to never put my phone on roaming. Instead I’d always buy a “souvenir” SIM card from each country (Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia) and put it on my open-line phone. I dunno, it seems more rustic that way.
In my travels (heh, always wanted to say that), the common denominator with phone brands would always seem to be the Nokias and Samsungs topping the charts. Developing countries also have a fascination for the cheaper “Bird” branded phones as well as the fake Nokla and other innovative China-made phones which the West has really never seen before.
