Phone?

I use a Motorola 1000 plus flip phone that I bought on 21 May 2001. Eight years old and it still talks fine, works fine. Still using the original battery. Eight years old and I see stuff like this:

Consumers will give their right arm to get their hands on the new BlackBerry Curve 8900, but you will have to wait until February 11. Just to make you sick, your business friend will be getting their hands on one on January 19, which is absolute torture.

For what? I have an employee that gets a new phone at least once a year and sometimes more often. A phone is to talk on.

I guess it is like people who buy a new car every year, for what, I don't know. Maybe they have too much money? I sure don't understand it. I may get a new phone this year with a PDA in it, but that would be the only reason and I don't have to change PDAs every year either. My PDA is 4-5 years old (I'm not close to it right now to see the date on it when I bought it).