Mmmm...tasty!

OK, phone geeking time.

I am a klutz. I think it stems from me being distracted easily and forgetting I'm holding onto something like, oh, a cell phone? It wasn't until I heard that frightening smack! that I realized I had just dropped it onto the hard floor at GAP. I popped the battery back in (because it had ejected itself some few feet away) and tried to turn it on. The lights flickered to life but the screen did not. This wasn't the first time so I just toggled it on/off again, opened/closed it, etc. After about two minutes I knew this time was a bit more serious than last.
      I finally got home later that evening and played around with the phone some more. I even tried to open it up and see if there was anything obviously missing. I thought about this for a few minutes and then figured that it wasn't worth repairing the phone. So I hopped online and started looking up my options. In the end, the following day I walked away from the phone shop carrying a ...


I took this little bad boy home and started playing with it. A friend had a Motorola and so the menu wasn't completely foreign to me. And after figuring out a few quirks (like phonebook entries must be stored on the phone and not the SIM to get the extra media options like voice dialing and custom ringtones) I really started to like it. The iTunes player on it isn't the best, but it works and it's not like I'm looking at the screen all of the time once the music is going. I know it is going to get sooooo scratched. I have a small cellular caddy on a few of my purses, so I'm hoping to use that to hold it. But, yay!, I have a working phone again!

And as an additional geeky bonus, I figured out how to write simple WML pages so I make custom ringtones. Rock on!