Changing Phones

Last night Don got himself a new cool new phone, because he is tired of people not hearing him on his old phone. He was up for an upgrade anyway, but ATT doesn't seem to care how to help their customers, so after several unfruitful attempts of dealing with their customer service, he jumped ship and went to TMobile where they had a phone that suits his fingers for typing.Yeah it's supposed to be a PHONE, but nowadays it's just not a simple job description anymore: try finding a device (I'm not calling them phones anymore!) that browses the internet, plays music & games, can be used as a GPS device, an email writer and occasionnally is used to place and receive calls, with a big enough keyboard for mensized fingers without being ridiculously large or all touch screen. It's a daunting task. If you like your carrier, your plan and the money you pay for the lot, your choices are extremely limited. The idiom "The grass is greener on the other side" comes to mind. So you put up with a failing phone, the staticquy conversation, the dropped calls and tiny keys for texting because your wife says "no" to the increased rates and the additional expenses to buy a PHONE. Ridiculous you may say. Well until the last straw: bad customer service. It's not worth the hassle of the wife. The wife, me, in this case got sick of not being able to talk to the husband and hearing the husband complain everyday. So here we are, I caved.

This is what Don got. Pretty slick. However since we changed service provider my trusty bare phone (mine is still a phone!) won't work anymore. Grr! So I let my thoughtful husband pick a new phone for me. He did really well. He picked a really nice metallic pink looking phone but if I don't want to spend extra on the beast for internet's service it's still only a phone with a camera. Just a very expensive phone!

So I'm going back to the store today and getting one just like his! Granted I'll now have to pay for what's called a data plan, at least I'll be able to play Sudoku and Pac-man on my phone... Pardon me, on my device! If I'm going down and hopping on the tech side of life I'm going down in style, not with just a phone!!!!!! Now we can send each other love emails and loves notes, and maybe even talk either on the devices or in person.