My phone's a Motorola ZN5, which I have because I'm used to Motorola phones, the awful O2 offer me a good tariff, and I can't afford an iPhone.
It's far from perfect. The buttons are cleverly arranged so you keep unintentionally aborting texts or sending them unfinished, and are constantly going into the web browser without wanting to. Nor can you personalise the key functions. On the plus side, it does have a decent camera - quite a few of the photos on this site have been taken with it - so it frees me from thinking about taking my real camera with me wherever I go. It plays podcasts, though it's a bit of a faff to upload them, and it has a good FM radio, so I can listen to PM on the go. It tweets, too.
There: 139 words, meeting Matt Wardman's challenge.
For my hero, I'll mention... gosh, this is difficult. I had to write a list of ten at a careers advice evening once, and it reveals so much about what you value and want in your own life. I value words, books, writing, talk, debate, discussion, politics, ideas and art, not necessarily in that order, so I could mention Samuel Johnson, an amazing figure looming over English language and literature, or Michael Foot, a surprising choice for an ex-SDPer like me perhaps but a good, prolific and committed writer and political intellectual who of course had a serious career as an active politician too. But I think I have to go with Orwell, the best English prose writer of the last century whose fiction is not only imaginative and beautifully written but has conveyed globally and historically important political ideas even to people who've never read it, whose non-fiction is engrossing and whose politics had an attractive peculiar Englishness. I'll buy a pint, a glass of wine or a Victory Gin for the first person who can identify the passage quoted underneath the typewriter Matt likes so much.
I tag: Jon Worth; Simply Wondered; Jules; John Bolch; Bishop Hill; Eric Turkewitz; Victoria Pynchon; Lawminx, Kerry McCarthy and Udo Vetter.
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