inkblaster
05-27-2005, 02:11 AM
So, for a while now I've been wanting a phone that does 3 simple things:
1. Works like a regular cell phone, text messaging, gets calls, etc.
2. Works like an mp3 player, so I can play mp3s since I got this thing that sticks in my ear.
3. has bluetooth if possible, so the thing that sticks in my ear is wireless.
Also I didn't want something huge with gobs of buttons and all bulky and such.
Well, I found the solution, the Nokia 6230. I actually got one tonight, and here is the strange tale of how it happened.
I was supposed to drive down to Virginia this weekend for family stuff, but yesterday my fiance' was side-swiped by some jerk who decided he needed to be in her lane, while she was still in it.
She's fine, her car needs an alignment and some body work though. So she shouldn't be driving her car, and it's too cold for me to take the bike down to VA.(was actually in the 40s this week, see Mina's post on what she hates)
So in preparation for my trip we did some last minute shopping tonight, I need CD-Rs to record some books on CD for the 10 hour(one way) drive(s).
While at Petco buying more poop bags for the dog I notice oh great, I have a nail in one of my tires from when they redid our apartment building's roof a couple of weeks back. This is just super, and I'm supposed to do a nonstop 600 mile trip tomorrow.
So I stop at Sears in the mall to see if they can patch it, and they're all like:
"I reckon I could, but I ain't gonna guarantee it, ya'll should get a new tar".(no, they didn't have a southern accent, but all good mechanics should.)
So I'm like, sure, grease me up and give it to me quick, $94, see you in a half hour, thanks.
So the woman and I head to Friendlys in the mall, where I set to convincing myself how my 'vacation' this week will suck because of all the crap, and now I'm out $100, and it's going to cost $100 in gas for my trip to VA.
Which I'm only going down for 2 days so I can be back on Tuesday to drop the woman off at the dealership to have her car repaired, and then Wednesday their coming to do repairs on our apartment due to the results from their yearly inspection and I need to be here because the fire marshall will also do his inspection then to ensure we aren't storing tons of newspapers in our basement and smoking big cigars near them, yada yada.
Then I realize, I have control of my destiny, and screw the trip to VA, it's family, they have to love me anyways. So now, I've cancelled out the potential $94 on a new tire, with the $100 not needed for gas. Also the woman can drive my car until hers is fixed.(she works on Saturdays)
While on the way back from Friendly's, we walk by the Cingular store in the mall, I decide to see if they have the 6230, and they do! It's only $79.99 if I do an 'upgrade' and sign up for 2 years.
I've had Cingular for 5 years now, so I'm ok with the whole deal with the devil thing. This thing is sweet, it takes an MMC card so I can copy MP3s, images, movies to it, it takes pictures, records video, has bluetooth, it's awesome!
If it could play COH I'd be totally set and just trash my 6 year old desktop that perpetually lives just to spite me.(c'mon break dammit!)
Also, we get back to Sears, and they didn't slap on a new tire like they should've, they just patched it like they said I ought not to have done, so that saved me like $65, and since I'm not going on the big trip, that's fine.
So that's my story of my new phone. It kicks butt, I loaded AC/DCs highway to hell on it and it sounds awesome over the tiny speaker on the phone. Now I gotta get a bluetooth headset so I can look like the Time-Life operator, man that's gonna be so cool.
1. Works like a regular cell phone, text messaging, gets calls, etc.
2. Works like an mp3 player, so I can play mp3s since I got this thing that sticks in my ear.
3. has bluetooth if possible, so the thing that sticks in my ear is wireless.
Also I didn't want something huge with gobs of buttons and all bulky and such.
Well, I found the solution, the Nokia 6230. I actually got one tonight, and here is the strange tale of how it happened.
I was supposed to drive down to Virginia this weekend for family stuff, but yesterday my fiance' was side-swiped by some jerk who decided he needed to be in her lane, while she was still in it.
She's fine, her car needs an alignment and some body work though. So she shouldn't be driving her car, and it's too cold for me to take the bike down to VA.(was actually in the 40s this week, see Mina's post on what she hates)
So in preparation for my trip we did some last minute shopping tonight, I need CD-Rs to record some books on CD for the 10 hour(one way) drive(s).
While at Petco buying more poop bags for the dog I notice oh great, I have a nail in one of my tires from when they redid our apartment building's roof a couple of weeks back. This is just super, and I'm supposed to do a nonstop 600 mile trip tomorrow.
So I stop at Sears in the mall to see if they can patch it, and they're all like:
"I reckon I could, but I ain't gonna guarantee it, ya'll should get a new tar".(no, they didn't have a southern accent, but all good mechanics should.)
So I'm like, sure, grease me up and give it to me quick, $94, see you in a half hour, thanks.
So the woman and I head to Friendlys in the mall, where I set to convincing myself how my 'vacation' this week will suck because of all the crap, and now I'm out $100, and it's going to cost $100 in gas for my trip to VA.
Which I'm only going down for 2 days so I can be back on Tuesday to drop the woman off at the dealership to have her car repaired, and then Wednesday their coming to do repairs on our apartment due to the results from their yearly inspection and I need to be here because the fire marshall will also do his inspection then to ensure we aren't storing tons of newspapers in our basement and smoking big cigars near them, yada yada.
Then I realize, I have control of my destiny, and screw the trip to VA, it's family, they have to love me anyways. So now, I've cancelled out the potential $94 on a new tire, with the $100 not needed for gas. Also the woman can drive my car until hers is fixed.(she works on Saturdays)
While on the way back from Friendly's, we walk by the Cingular store in the mall, I decide to see if they have the 6230, and they do! It's only $79.99 if I do an 'upgrade' and sign up for 2 years.
I've had Cingular for 5 years now, so I'm ok with the whole deal with the devil thing. This thing is sweet, it takes an MMC card so I can copy MP3s, images, movies to it, it takes pictures, records video, has bluetooth, it's awesome!
If it could play COH I'd be totally set and just trash my 6 year old desktop that perpetually lives just to spite me.(c'mon break dammit!)
Also, we get back to Sears, and they didn't slap on a new tire like they should've, they just patched it like they said I ought not to have done, so that saved me like $65, and since I'm not going on the big trip, that's fine.
So that's my story of my new phone. It kicks butt, I loaded AC/DCs highway to hell on it and it sounds awesome over the tiny speaker on the phone. Now I gotta get a bluetooth headset so I can look like the Time-Life operator, man that's gonna be so cool.