Cell Touch

Doing it yourself attitudes has just recently reached the realm of cellular phone adornments. The availability to create and make your own necklaces, earrings and bracelets has also made it possible for cellular phone owners to hand craft their own cellular phone-rings as well as other hanging adornments not only for their cell phones but also for the carrying cases and MP3 or MP4 players.

The possibilities are now endless as each day and each time more cellular owners have come to embrace such possibilities, and realizing that by handcrafting their own adornments they are still one-step closer to making their mobile phones unique.  However, there are pointers that need to be considered when the cellular phone owner is considering creating his or her own and unique cell phone adornments, such as not using pieces that are too heavy or entirely made of metal.

Using heavy pieces such as natural rocks and metal charms will cause that the phone falls more often that it would normally do, since the owner will still handle it as normal without considering that the adornment will cause the phone to unbalance.  On the other hand, using mostly metal to create and craft the adornment will cause a disturbance on the phone receptive capabilities, hissing sounds and breaking signal can be a consequence of this.

Each time more and more cellular phone users seek to have as many things in them as possible.  Long gone are the days when people wanted a cellular phone just to make a call or two; now, with text messaging, it is almost as if there are no barriers.  Teenagers as well as young adults can text message friends not only in the same city or country, but also in the same continent or even across the globe.

Cellular companies have created “unique” cellular phones, specific brands, and styles of phones that are only able to be used with their company have created a large and prosperous underground market where all cellular phones can be unlocked and the “uniqueness” of the companies can be overridden.

Now, anyone can have a cellular phone that works for any company; but who are the ones that are reaping the benefits of this practice?  It certainly is not the middle or sales person; it is the Asian manufacturers who are reaping bills by the bulk; just by creating and manufacturing cellular phones that have special features and characteristics that most of the brand cellular phones do not have, such as color, mp3 or mp4 capacities and the like.

Thus, in the near future, mobile companies will have to get their own thinking caps and create a way to attract all those customers who own Asian-manufactured phones and who bounce from company to company as they please.  The days of the “unique” cellular phones are numbered.

Sometimes having the right cell phone hanging adornment is just not enough for cell phone owners who are looking to making their cellular phones have the best possible look.  One of their choices is to use the self-stickers that are available in the open market where they can choose from one of the many designs of well-known characters to a jewelry sticker.  Of course, the gain for all the manufacturers of such stickers is the glue; with prolonged use, the glue will soften and the rhinestone or the sticker itself will slowly start to loosen until it falls off the outside skeleton of the cellular phone.

However, there is still hope.  There are specific glues for sale at the handcraft stores that are soft on Styrofoam plastic; these type of glues are the best option for cellular phone users who are not willing to invest several hundred dollars a month or a year to paste expensive rhinestone stickers on their cellular phones just to loose them with normal use.

The ideal glue has to be one that will dry clear and that is strong enough to hold in place crystal beads and, at the same time, will not corrode Styrofoam plastic.  This glue will be strong enough to hold the stickers and any other stone that the user would like to embellish his or her phone with and still maintain intact the outside skeleton.