Warm spoon...

Zippee-de-do-dah...I'm getting a new cell phone! That's right suckas, a brand spankin new phone, in all its "newness" glory! I've had the same old handset for about twelve eons or so, and am becoming more and more frustrated by it daily. It gives the cell phone version of the blue-screen-of-death every time you shut it. Clam-shell corpse of a phone. You have to power off, then hold it almost shut while powering back on in order to bring back any functionality. And when it "dies", it still may work but you're never sure. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Good luck trying to figure it out, it's a total crap shoot either way. The only hope is to turn it off, then on...every shinning time! This is the second time this model has gone belly up on me, I sent it back once but now I'd get a crappy replacement in it's place. Its' life cycle has come and gone. So, tough decision, I either get the el-crapo replacement or pony up for a new and improved million dollar wonder-phone. Features I won''t use, functions that won't work, wrapped in styling and form straight outta the 1970's! All the phones my service provider has for purchase are just stupid. Where are the cool tiny phones, or the non-antenna phones? All the nifty ones are available from the same service provider in every other country, just not in the US of A. How ass-backwards! I guess America is too small of a market to warrant current product marketing, or innovative products. We must be screaming for old, tired leftovers that no one else in the world seems to want. Seems about right. Well, I said "balls" to that, emailed a querry about the lousy product line to my carrier (they promise to reply to your questions in 24 hrs...it's been about two weeks and counting...) and then went searching. Took a few days, found a couple decent handsets, priced them out and was totally depressed. To get a good phone (read: import...) it would cost me upwards of three hundred US. I'm just not willing to drop that much, no matter how cool or practical the phone is. I saddly decided to find a cool "old" phone, one that wasn't current but seemed to have a good long shelf life. If it was a decent form factor, user friendly, and prone to working for long periods of time I'll give it a shot. My cousin has a sony-ericsson T616, and has had it forever. He swears by it, functionality and reliability being his formost concerns. I thought "well, if I can find one-a-them thar phones, dang-gum it, I'd be a might happier than I'm'a feelin right now...uh huh...". As I was searching for a new-old T616, I checked out sony-ericssons website and found all sorts of cool phones. In particular, the T630 (in liquid black...drool...). And wouldn't you know it, with a bit of searching I found one on ebay that worked with my provider. For the same amount as I'd pay for a new phone from my provider. That decision took all of two seconds, as I rushed to fork over my money on paypal. Well, I did ask my wife first, but ya know. That leads to me sitting here right now typing, with one window on PvP and a tab for fedex's package tracker. I'm reading the archives of a completey funny cartoon and obsessively checking to see if my package is on its way to my house. I should be cleaning the garage or doing dishes, but I'm fantasisng about the new toy I'm about to get. Allright! The package is on the truck for delivery. Well, maybe I will go clean the garage, it's closer to the door than the computer is!