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Archive for September 5th, 2006

A gadget-less, gadget-geek

Posted by Pete on September 5th, 2006
I recently reported on my smooth move at the beach the other weekend where I accidentally took my cell phone surfing with me. While the loss of my Razr was a pain, I was secretly excited because it meant I was able to justify a new electronic toy. In fact, not less than two days earlier I had been checking out websites looking at new cell phones (I wonder what Freud would say about my subconscious on this one).

About 10 minutes after leaving the beach I found myself at the nearest Cingular store looking at the latest toys. After a quick customer look-up I was informed that I’m not currently eligible for a phone upgrade until November…meaning if I wanted a phone I would have to pay full price. I decided a month or two is not too long to wait for a new gadget but in the meantime I still needed a phone so I ended up purchasing the cheapest one they had.

Now let me tell you, when I say cheap I mean it’s barely functional. I used to think that most expensive phones cost so much because of the “extras” they offered but in this case, the extra cost apparently pays for your calls to not be dropped or something because this phone can’t hang on to a call to save its life!

Plus with me, being a gadget geek, I’m missing my bluetooth and camera functions. Anyway after researching phones in an attempt to tide me over until I can get a new one, I found a pretty cool Samsung phone that seems to be an upgrade from the Razr (actually, I didn’t find it, Amy did). Its the Samsung SGH-D807 and you can find a review here.

I haven’t seen many, if any people with the phone so if anyone out there has it or knows anything about it I be interested in hearing your opinion on the matter.

I’m also looking at the Sony Ericsson W8100