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.
