My last mobile phone had repeatedly given me warnings that it was overloaded, running out of space and was going to be functioning badly soon. Despite my clearing as much data as possible, the warnings continued, so I bit the bullet and finally bought a brand new phone.

This was a painful process: the research, the choices, the buying; all aspects of shopping are draining to me. Eventually I have purchased a phone that I am pleased with.

Previously, when I’ve purchased a new phone, I’ve happily worked through a few features and geared the phone’s looks just the way I wanted. Not now, though.

This new phone is being used, but not with enthusiasm. It has the same cover, the same menus and the same app placements as it had when it arrived from the retailer.

I want to regain that fascination with technology that I’ve had with previous purchases of phones, cameras and computers, but it hasn’t happened yet with this item. It feels slightly disrespectful.

I think often about the fact that a mobile phone has 100,000 times the processing power of the guidance computer that landed man on the moon. Staying with the Apollo, realising that a single search on Google would use as much computing as the entire 17 mission programme, has had me wanting to put a little more respect on learning the capabilities of this small new phone in my possession.

Feature films have been shot on mobile phones. They’ve been used to make amazing TikTok videos. What else can be done with these great little machines?