Please tell me that I am not alone? I thought that Mifi was that "sweet little bunny" on childrens TV!
I appear to have been completely left behind by all of the modern techie comms stuff. Reading the communications options in the new California brochure is like deciphering some form of foriegn code but it appears that everyone else seems to know what it all does and how it works.
To give an indication of my level of technical sophistication, I bought my wife a new smart phone last October to replace her old coal fired brick. Since then she has rarely put the damn thing down. Unfortunately, she insisted that I also had to have one "just in case". Well, last week, after six months of ownership, I made my first phone call, not without some difficulty I must add. I did this as I discovered that I might loose the £30 credit if I didn't make the odd call from time to time. So I phoned Mrs B to check it worked and got her "mail box" even though I could see her from where I was! She couldn't hear her phone as it was buried amongst all of the many essential items within the depths of her vast handbag!
So, what's this Luddite been using his state of the art smart phone for in all of this time? I hear you ask. Well if I have remembered where I left it and to charge it up, I almost exclusively use it for going on the forum whilst waiting for Mrs B to finish one of her many shopping expeditions to Sainsbury's.
However, being completely serious for a moment my question is that, whilst I accept that some people need to maintain communications for work and other commitments, does this modern obsession with maintaining communications enhance or detract from the original VW camper van sense of freedom and adventure?
For me at least, having spent my working life strapped to a radio pager and having had to constantly maintain a comms link whilst on duty, freedom for me is ditching all of that. I haven't even bothered to link the new smart phone to our Cali's entertainment system.