Yes, I’d Like Some Cheese with this Whine
I’m up for a new phone through my Verizon new every two deal and honestly I’m underwhelmed. Currently I have your slightly-more-than-basic phone – it makes calls, has a camera and videorecorder, it’s always worked well for me. I don’t need VCast (I don’t even know what that means) and I’m not going to pay $100 a month just to get email on my phone. I am not that popular or important, Verizon Wireless. Thanks for reminding me. Nor am I loaded enough to drop over a thousand bucks a year, not counting the price of the phone, just so I can wade through all the action alert emails I get everyday urging me to call my senators. (And on that note – please. I signed up for email alerts because I dislike contacting my elected officials via the phone. If you want people to actually dial a number, have them sign up for a phone list or something. Just give me a freaking online form to fill out, mmkay?)
But is it too much to ask for the phones to be at least marginally exciting? I scroll through my list of available phones and basically I’m seeing the same design in either black or silver over and over again. I want something kind of quirky, not the basic phone I have now. Otherwise, why am I getting a new phone at all? I’m leaning toward the Samsung Juke, because it plays music and has a cool design and comes in teal, but I’ve read some bad reviews of it. Although I’m not usually very rough on my phone, so it might not be so bad for me…
Man, these first world problems suck, don’t they? UGH.
I’m the same way with my phone. It does its thing, takes a shitty picture or two, but I don’t need to VCast that cost a billion dollars (I don’t know what it is either).
My cousin has the Juke, but somehow it got wet or dropped (I can’t remember), and now its basically possessed. Example: when she tries to check a text, it will show her the text for two seconds and then it scrolls ahead and goes through all of the menus without her even clicking on it. Kinda crazy.
I hate trying to pick out a new phone. It feels like such an all-or-nothing kind of deal. Phone companies are such greedy bastards. “you don’t want to pay for thirty-seven kinds of useless crap? fine, we’ll stick you with a crap phone.”
Teal sounds like an awesome color, though — much better than the greyish thing I have.
I always just take the free phone.