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Stupid Cellular Security Blanket.
July 24th, 2008
When you are married to a techno geek you can’t just get a new cell phone, oh, no. You must first read all of the reviews, reports, and price check. This usually takes about…..oh, six months or so. (This is where you roll your eyes and say Hey You acts like a stupid girl) Two years ago when it was time to upgrade phones, I wanted the Pink Razor. It was in the store, it was a decent price, and most importantly, it was pretty. It matched my makeup bag, and the inside of my purse would be cute. Since it would be pink, we would never pick up the wrong phone by mistake. The Husband said it was a crappy phone, and we were not getting one. After many reviews and discussions that ended with me pointing at our old phones being held together with duct tape, the KRZR K1 (see above) was the phone that was deemed worthy for both of the Huckablogs.
They only came in the above blue, and I whined. Immediately we started getting our phones mixed up. He was avoiding Heartless Cellular Company on my phone, and I was avoiding Batsh!t crazy Ju–, er boss lady, on his. I whined some more. I wanted to go to one of those kiosks in the mall and get a skin thingy for my phone so it would be pretty, but no, apparently those are somehow bad for phones. I whined some more. For Christmas last year The Husband put in my stocking a hot pink metal body for my phone he had found from Hong Kong or someplace. It required him to completely rebuild my phone to put it in the new body, thusly making our phone insurance NULL and VOID. I am sure you can pretty much see where this is going.
My phone got dropped yesterday (anybody care to guess who did that?). The one teeny tiny non-metal piece snapped. The Husband took it apart and spent a good hour with his soldering iron last night trying to make it last until it is time to upgrade in the fall. I, of course, threw away the old ugly blue case months ago in one of my thorough, if infrequent, cleaning sprees. The Husband has ordered a piece to fix it, but it will take a couple of weeks to make it here from Thai Pae, or Phnom Penh, or wherever he ordered it from. I am at a loss without my phone, I might miss important calls! About play dates, or um, other important stuff I do. And the camera! I actually use my camera phone, what kind of world is this where I can not take that millionth picture of The Son on the slide?
Long story short: phone dead, email or call the house (for those who have the number) instead. Don’t expect me to call you, because every single number of every single person I know is in that pile of pink and screws. I had to write down my home phone number to remember it today. What did people do without their cellular security blankets back in the day?
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Ok, first….I wanted to wait on the iPhone, it was due in stores in just a few weeks that turned to months. When I realized it would be 2 more months before they were released I caved and settled for my second choice, the Krzr.
As Hey You said, our old phones were literally falling apart (they were Moto V400’s).
I do admit to ordering the pretty pink housing from a company in Hong Kong ( http://www.cnn.cn ). They were very quick to ship and the product was exactly as described. Yes, it took a little while to get here but I thought it looked way better than the plastic cases they sold at the mall.
Oh, and the replacement parts? I ordered them from the much more distant land of New York City. They should be here in a week or so.
Um, yeah. I am right there with you Hey You! We don’t ever buy ANYTHING until we check consumer reports first. Joe (luckily?) has the online subscription so he can check while in the store (on his handy iPhone).
I got the pink RAZR as soon as it was available from AT&T (formerly Cingular formerly SW Bell Wireless) about 2 1/2 years ago. It lasted a very long time and has been a great phone. Joe and I have never mixed our phones up.
This past January, I upgraded to a phone that I had had my eye on for a while. I wanted a phone with a qwerty keyboard, but I didn’t want said phone to be too bulky. Consequently I got the Pantech Duo, which slides vertically for the number pad and horizontally for the qwerty keyboard. Of course, Joe had to approve it prior to purchase
Okay, so all of this is leading me to this…Joe is looking for a reason to get the new 3G iPhone, only he has a perfectly good iPhone already. He has talked about the only reason he would get the new 3G would be if he could sell his old iPhone. This is an option, and I’m sure he would be tickled pink (pun intended) if The Husband bought it. Just a thought.
Oh, and I also still have my pink RAZR and it still works fine so I could send it to you if you want it.
Cingular/AT&T allows me to upgrade every year to a new phone, and I just pick one of the free ones they have available. 3 years ago I got a blue RAZR and loved it! I had the thing for two years, then last year I gave it to my mom and got another free upgrade. I’m super happy with my LG whatever-it’s-called. It’s smallish, black, has a 5mp camera and random other features I’ve yet to use, plus it came with several pre-loaded full-versions of games. And, I’ve always been a pretty big fan of LG. The phone before my RAZR was an LG that I dropped in the toilet, causing me to get the RAZR.
I guess I’m too cheap to spend loads of cash on a cell phone when I can get one free every year. Plus, though I really wanted an iPhone, I really don’t need it. I have a Zune and I have a phone. I think I like keeping the two separate.
ShoeShe is rubbing in that she won the Zune again.
Ang, we will talk about Joe’s iphone for Hey You, and the razor…we will let you know, THANKS!
Shoeshe, we have AT&T also, but our’s only allows an upgrade each two years. So we I dropped my 3 month old Blackberry Pearl in the toilet, I had to ante up for my Nokia replacement. Sure wish I’d known about Ang’s Razor. Dad has one and its been great.
Grammy, you can switch to a one-year upgrade. Though, if you do, and you don’t get the one that is free, you wind up paying a bit more for the new one every year. But, if you always choose the free one, it really doesn’t matter. And, if you wait two years instead of just the one, you have more options available. Plus, if you go to Wal-Mart to do your new phone transaction, they have lower rates than the Cingular…uh…AT&T store rates. Just saying. And, again…I’m pretty cheap when it comes to phones, because I really need the old-school Nokia brick as rough as I am on the darn things.
Oh, and tomorrow I swear I’ll have a new post on my own blog (www.shoeshe.wordpress.com). I’ve been uploading pictures all weekend, and last week I was a bit overwhelmed by looking for a new job. So it will come, just give me a bit of time.