Almost Tickled Pink
Posted by kasper on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 at 00:11 under General
I got a new phone! Isn’t it purdy? I’ve had a Nokia 3220 for the last 2 years and quite frankly I was getting a little sick of it. I was in desperate need of a new gadget in my life. Enter the pink Sony Ericsson W580i. More than just a lust for a new phone, it was sort of a necessity since baby D has decided that my Nokia makes a great teether. Who would’ve known that drool wouldn’t play nice with cellphone batteries? The phone does still work, but the charge doesn’t last for more than a day.
Luckily the battery for the new phone was said to only take 2.5 hours to charge (though I’m pretty sure it didn’t even take that long), because let’s face it who wants to wait to play with toys? Got the old sim card out of my old phone, plugged in the new fresh battery and listened to the chime as the phone powered up. Sweet satisfaction. After navigating through the new menus and getting acquainted with the phone I was disappointed to be missing some of the neat features from the Nokia. I have to decide if I can live without adding photos to the callers or identifying callers by ringtones or setting a default recipient for text messaging. They may be little things, but those little things are niceties that I’ve grown attached to.
In my disappointment I tried to find the cost of a new battery for the Nokia. Of course the phone is so old that Rogers doesn’t even carry them anymore (if they ever did). Then I thought, “oooh wonder if ebay has any”. Sure enough. Would you believe that I could return the $124.99 Sony phone and pay $0.99 for a new battery?! I laughed hysterically when figured that with shipping the whole purchase would cost me less than $5.00! So sure enough I bought the battery. I still have 30 days to decide whether or not to keep the Sony, who knows maybe the text prediction and mp3 player will outweigh the lackings (though at the moment it’s not looking good).
You have reached the blog of kasper. I live outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
and have been blogging since 1999. I am newly married, though have been with the same guy for nearly 13 years.
We have a son (baby D) born April 13th, 2007 and have all moved into our first home. Though I don't tend
to stick to one thing, I've been known to enjoy the Sims2, knitting, webdesign, reading, music and movies.
March 26th, 2008 at 06:59 am
I’ve always had Nokia phones. Right now my primary is a Motorola and I love it - in fact, I’m so used to it that I sometimes have trouble using my Nokia. I’m thinking of switching to Samsung though. I’ve never really been a fan of Sony phones.