Panasonic, of course we’ll have to call them Matsushita until the end of the year, is my latest favourite company. As I told in my previous post, I just bought a very nice piece of notebook made by them, my fifth product from their firm in the last two years. First of all, there was the mobile phone of my uncle. Having spent the day at Singapore’s airport on his way to Australia ten years ago, he found it in some shop where they didn’t realize its true value because even then it was outdated. Small, black & white display, the only thing it offered was its size and weight were nothing compared to the Motorola Startac 130 he used until that very moment. Two years later, he again moved on to some other Motorola device, but now I needed a new one and purchased it from some E-Bay seller who also didn’t realize its true value, mainly because it then was even more outdated than my uncle’s when he bought his. My GD-55 was silver-blue, 55g and I wore it around my neck for more than three years. I couldn’t have done that with my previous Nokia 7210.
My next experience with Panasonic was my uncle’s Toughbook W2, I guess. As I switched to Apple, he always had problems with his because of his excessive use of his harddrive and Zero knowledge of Windows. Bad combination.
I then bought a pretty cool whet/dry shaver ES8807, had to replace it once, but it works perfectly! It is fast, reliable and doesn’t make my face look like I tried to eat spaghetti for breakfast. Very cool, and Made in Japan.
Next was my headphones, the ones from Apple kept falling out of my ear and they replaced it with a pair of Sony that I gave to my brother. I bought myself some very cheap, and after their death on my running track and a bit of rain I knew: A pair of Panasonic would do the job. And they do!
Then the many DECT phones I bought for my mother’s company that where the only chic on the market. Stylish, minimalist and with a nice tone. Again, my uncle had one before, and after the purchase of four for Nuremberg and another three in Vienna, I bought myself a set, too. Okay, its date and time settings are always a mess, and I guess I have to bring it back soon, I simply can’t hand it in. I cannot live without it.
And then there is one of the best: My camera FZ-18. Light, black, Leica optics, what else could one want? My uncle has a FZ-30, wants to sell it all the time, my granduncle a FZ-10 (and at least he knows what he is doing if it comes to photography), so I guess it was a very good buy. Well, I had to send it in for the cleaning of some minor dirt inside the optics and am waiting for it right now (thus no pictures at the moment), but nobody’s perfect.
And last but not least: The CF-R7! The smallest and best notebook ever!
