Phones are shiny.

I wasn’t aware my half-conscious babblings on cell phones would cause people to chime in.

I realized I never mentioned what phone I currently have. Samsung Gravity TXT. It actually fits my needs rather nice. It’s just buggy. As in, it will randomly reboot and/or turn off. Battery life is decent, I can go up to a week. The charge indicator is deceiving, though. Once it goes anywhere below a full indicated charge, it’ll die within a day or two. The qwerty keyboard is a godsend compared to the classic flip-phone thumbing. If it weren’t for needing to text faster, I would have kept my flip-phone. C`mon, I’m a nerd, some part of me loved the physical action of openning it.

So I suppose I have two things I need to think about. One, whether I want data or not, and two, whether there’s actually a difference in which network carrier I choose. My flip-phone was an at&t go-phone. What I did not know until recently was that go-phone has degraded network connectivity compared to full-paying customers. Same goes for any pay-as-you-go customers. I don’t know what to believe. All I know is that for the two years I’ve had my current phone on t-mobile, Candi ALWAYS has more bars than me no matter where we go, and she’s on at&t. And she seems to be the only person who hasn’t had a problem with customer service.

If I decide not to utilize data, I’m really better off staying with a so-called quick messaging phone which people in the stores like to poo-poo. My current phone may be laughable technology compared to the iphone 7000, but it texts and makes calls just fine, which is all I really care about. Just wish I could find one that wasn’t smattered in reviews full of how buggy they are. Because I like my phone. IT’S JUST BUGGY. Ya know?

Yet, if you follow reviews, there seems to be a pattern of getting what you pay for. Higher tiered phones have less instances of people bitching. Or maybe lower-tiered people aren’t so enamored with their phone that they’d bother writing a review in the first place. I know statistics – the sampling population of those who would bother to place a review online is not representative of the entire population of people using a specific phone.

So I’ve been opening my mind to getting something shinier. I still desire qwerty and I don’t want an all-touchscreen. I’m kind of facepalming that I’ve been so scared of blackberries. Maybe I saw them as personal data assistants or just wasn’t sure whether I could text with the keys are scrunched up. Yet every review of a blackberry phone always has enough people masturbating to “the classic blackberry qwerty.” The Torch appeals to me because it’s compact and has a vertical slider. Am I the only one living in the past that remembers a similar action in the Matrix movies? I didn’t go out and buy one of those Nokias, but I sure remember the ad placement. Then there are blackberries that look like, well, blackberries. My issue with them is that they have optical trackpads. The one on my phone died a while ago (water damage) and I never was good at using it.

Which leads me to the Q10. Would be.. different to not be living in the stone age technology-wise. Even though Kelly Quark is still an impressive build of a computer. (Because, you know, I spend money on quality parts.) I’ve run some numbers and it would be cheaper for me to just be added as a second phone on Candi’s plan rather than having two separate plans.

And.

Hrm. I think that about covers it.