I’m excited. Very excited. My old cell phone was, well, old. It would have been replaced earlier except the contract was changed before the old contract would have provided a new phone. It’s a phone that was new during the summer before my junior year of high school. The new one is a Samsung. It’s a flip phone. It has an LCD screen. It’s not a camera phone, it doesn’t have games, or applications, it does have mobile web stuff but I’m not going use it because that’s not what I need in a phone. The only feature I need from my phone is the feature that lets me talk to the person on the other end. The best part is though, the major advantage that this phone has over my old one, is that the battery is not a 4 by 2 square centimeter black rectangular piece of SHIT. Ok. Pause. Breathe.
I HAVE A NEW CELL PHONE!
Best feature so far about the phone: I can set up a voice-recognition dialing for 20 numbers. I say the person’s name and it autodials. I love this. It’s very much the-future-is-now for me.
I thought this was cool until I found myself shouting and arguing with my phone. It never seemed to go to the right name on the list.
“Adam”
“No, ADAM!”
“ADAM, DAMNIT!!”
It was much easier and faster to find the name in my phonebook myself. YMMV.
Is it an X426 ? by any chance.
Declan
Stop bragging SR 
Geez, now I feel old, and I’m 29. Nobody I knew had a cell phone in high school. They were far too expensive for us ordinary people…
Enjoy your new phone, though!
I quit using my voicedialer because of two people: my friends Kasey and Tracy. The phone never understood which one I meant, and no matter how many times I tried to re-record the voice, I couldn’t make it any clearer.
Congrats on your new phone, though, SR. New shiny good.
Wow. Thanks for all the good tidings regarding my new cell. Declan, it’s an Samsung a650.
So far the voice dial hasn’t given me tooooo much trouble, although last night it did stubbornly beep at me rather than voice dial anyone.
And yes, Harimad-sol, it is shiny. I’m surprised I didn’t mention that earlier, as it’s one of the main reasons I’m so excited about it.
I’ll try not to hijack, but I know exactly how you feel. My old wireless carrier drove me insane yesterday, so I hung up on their customer “service” guy and drove to the Cingular store and bought a new Motorola Razr.
You might want to return it.
Sounds like it’s got some feedback issues.
Yeah, well, I have a new cell phone too. A Nokia 6010 to replace my Nokia 3595. What can I say? I hate chnage, but even more, I hate flip phones. Plus, I can use all my old accessories.
I LOVE my voice dialing. And I had a problem similar to Kasey and Tracy. I solved it by just using the last name of one of them instead. Mine is a Motorola V551 and it takes marvelously wonderful clear pictures, a few seconds of cute video, but mostly it WORKS. My old phone was on the old technology and I was unable to call half the time!
I just want a case or something for my cell phone. Its cover is getting badly scratched and the new covers from the Centennial store cost about thirty dollars each, which I think is excessive, though I’ve not priced them elsewhere. Perhaps I should do that before jumping to conclusions.
Ooo, them’s are spiffy phones. Expensive, but spiffy. Snazzy, even.
Its interesting how every single person who has seen my phone (except my girlfriend, who mocks me) says “whoa, is that the razr!?!” and gets all excited about it. Between that and my Team Zissou shirt I was sporting yesterday, I was quite the popular guy on campus.
I saw a Razr yesterday at one of the local Cingular dealers (we were doing what we should’ve done years ago and got a family plan) and my general reaction was “who the hell is going to pay that much for a freaking phone?” Of course, three hours later, I was dropping a thousand bucks on new computer parts. I like technology, but I just don’t understand cell phones and especially not convergence. It’s a phone. I want it to reliably dial who I tell it to dial, at a reasonable service rate, and not try to pack in all these features that I’ll never use. Text messaging? Nope. Camera? Nope. Ringtones? Nope. Games? Well, mine does come preloaded with a pretty good backgammon game and I did pay for a blackjack game on my old phone, but games are not a consideration. I did wireless internet on my old phone, and while it was handy to have when I actually needed it, I didn’t need it often enough to get it under the new agreement. Hell, the prices of some of those phones–like that $400 (WITH a 2-year agreement) one Cingular keeps pushing (the one with the Star Wars stuff)–was nearly the same price as my new CPU or gig of RAM. Or I could get that Gamecube and the games I’ve been wanting. Or finish some series in my DVD collection. Or pay off some debt. Or invest it in the market.
Still, enjoy your Razr. What can one of those things do, anyway? Or is it mostly in the design?
/pokes at phone.
Uhh…
hmm.
It has a cool screen and makes noises!
And I bought the bowling game (4.99) that I am absolutely addicted to. Just like the far inferior bowling game on my old nokia.
I don’t see myself using the camera much one the novelty wears off.
Stop making me reconsider my flagrant waste of money! :mad:
In late February I switched mobile carriers and got a Samsung SCH-a670 – slightly different from your model (mine has a camera), but I feel your joy! Almost three months later, I still have “new cell phone” love. 