I have an issue with Cell Phones… Or maybe how they are marketed. I realized I wasn’t carrying my Cingular 8125 around very much unless I was working and had to because, quite honestly, it is a big fat brick and sounds crappy without my Jawbone BT Headset[1] which means something else I have to carry. We are talking about someone who pretty much doesn’t want to wear any more than a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, no shoes, no socks, no nothing else. Even my wallet is annoying, can’t wait to embed a chip in my arm with my ID info and credit card info[2]. You can imagine the overwhelming desire I have to carry a brick of a phone and a BT Headset that I have to keep in my pocket because if I wear it my family all start laughing at me for being a dork and yes… When I walk around with a stupid piece of electronics hanging from my ear, I see their point. When I am working, invaluable, any other time, dork.
So the plan I have through Cingular allows me to add additional lines for like $9.99 and uses the same minutes (of which I have like 10,000 rollover minutes banked) so I was looking over the phone selection. Not a single phone said “Great voice quality, outstanding phone to talk to people with, you will think they are standing right there!”. No it was all, this phone can send text messages, use it as an MP3 player, a phone, web surfing device, paint your house, clean between your toes, etc etc etc ad nauseam features that have nothing, nothing I say, to do with talking to people. When I HAVE to talk to someone on the phone, the only thing important to me is that I can do so clearly. So I ended up ordering a small little Motorola (candy) bar style phone. No I didn’t get the Razr… I know it is the cool thing but I used one before and wasn’t thrilled with it. The phone has the camera and MP3 features and probably bunch of others, my hope though is that it just sounds decent.
joe
[1] Thanks to Ryan Dunn for recommending this… I love it. Bought two in fact.
[2] But will wait until it is actually secure. I want to have to pinch my hand really hard in a special pattern or something else like that in order for that info to be disclosed and depending on which pattern I use, different pieces of info are disclosed.
