Go retro with YUBZ phone handsets

By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

IT’S sometimes scary to think of how much the world has changed thanks to technology, particularly when you realize that a lot of the things we take for granted now were the stuff of science fiction just a decade or so ago. I mean, remember the days when e-mail was such a novelty, and few people had mobile phones (heck, I once carried a pager)?

In my case, the one who constantly reminds me how much the world has changed is my almost-six-year-old daughter Sam, such as the first time she saw an old phone (you know, the one you actually had to dial) and was amazed that it was, in fact, a phone. Our editor in chief JV Rufino has even dubbed it a “Sam moment,” instances when you realize that a younger generation did not grow up in a world where vinyl records, black & white TVs, party-line telephone services and film cameras were commonplace. That reminds me: I remember Sam’s lola once bringing a film camera to school during one of those Family Day activities and taking a pic of Sam and her classmates, who then all ran up to Sam’s grandma wanting to see the photo. Needless to say, it was hard for them to understand that not all cameras are digital and they were puzzled why they couldn’t view the image, heh

Anyway, when I saw the YUBZ retro handset in Sunday Inquirer Magazine’s Browser section (yup, I actually get to read the print newspaper on Sundays), it amused me and I asked our multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla to do a video interview.

Here’s YUBZ Philippines PR officer Mitzi Ruiz giving a demo of this quirky mobile phone and laptop accessory. Hope you like the video that Erika took, which I edited using iMovie HD on Mikaela, my MacBook Pro. And thanks to www.virtualsoundtracks.com for the royalty-free music.

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