cell phone mania c

Hmmm... should we start with the root? I need a new cell phone. Now... for the "normals" out there who don't get off on gadgets this is no big thing. You just wait around until the phone you've got breaks, stops working, or falls in the toilet. But for those of us nerdy enough to both know and want Bluetooth and ev-do. For those of us who almost feel shame when this gadget or that isn't as thin or doesn't have as many features as the next mans (think of it almost like reverse monster truck syndrome), It isn't that simple. You buy a phone, but the Bluetooth is crippled. You got your eye on another phone but its $400. You think, hey, I'll just switch carriers, and go with so, and so... but then you realize that it doesn't matter. No matter where you go the problems are all the same.... its enough to make you want to cry. Is it too much to ask to just be able to moblog for less that $400 down, and $60/mo? Is it too much to ask to just be able to transfer files from my phone to my computer wirelessly? IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK TO JUST BE ABLE TO TALK ON MY PHONE IN MY CAR, THROUGH MY CAR WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE MY HANDS OFF THE WHEAL?!?

 

Its these types of feelings that are leading me down the path that my coworker recently went on. And hence we come to the word of the post. Maniac. My coworker would have at one time been considered ahead of the curve. Or at least on the leading edge of it. He had a sony erickson T608. It was one of the first phones with Bluetooth iirc. no camera, but still quite the little package. You had to order through some secret means because they didn't sell it in stores. He could take his phone and hook it up to his laptop (via Bluetooth) and go anywhere he could get cell phone service and be on the internet. Then one day in a fit of electronic rage he threw the phone against a concrete wall.... over and over again until it was not but pieces on the ground. Then he bought a new phone. No Bluetooth. No camera... no nothing... just a barebones phone. He hated it.... ever since then he has been going down the path of no electronic frills. No refrigerator, no a/c in his car. He then one day began throwing the new phone all around the room, he cracked the screen (intentionally) with a knife (to give it character) and eventually dropping it in a sink full of water and it too is now lost. This guy is on the blink.... let me tell ya.... He's a maniac.

 

anyway....what to do?.... I'll keep you up to date.... btw, I don't know who "you" is in that sentence.  "Her?"