I know. It has been a while since my last post, ok a long while. I still haven’t seen the wild things movie, finally got the LFORADIO redesign completed and Noah is a super handful. I really have nothing to complain about other than my iPhone 3GS was stolen from my place of work while I left it over night from a friday to a Saturday morning. I came in on Saturday to grab it up and it was no where to be found. Well, long story short Shelley’s good friend Anna came to the rescue with an older iPhone for sale.
After buying the phone from her for $25 bucks (thx Anna!) I find that the iPhone 1st gen is WAY slower than I had once thought. It’s like having a vw bug then upgrading to a BMW 8 series and suddenly having to give that up for a Toyota corolla. It’s just not cool. I’m a tech geek, if you know me, and I’m all about the newest and coolest however in later years I’ve been trying to be sensible about my purchases. In order to make informed decisions, i’ve been trying to cut out the impulse buys and research all I can about my object of desire. Case in point, the DROID.
The DROID is the newest smart-phone addition to Verizon’s line up and quite possibly the best iPhone competition to date. It came out today and after getting my hands on it, i’m impressed. Now I know what you are going to say and you are right, I am a techno whore and yes I ordered one, but not without a fight. Allow me to explain.
I knew that having obtained an replacement iphone being able to place/receive calls like again, I figured I should just relax and not worry about the $399.99 I was going to pay to get back to 3GS status when along comes, coincidentally, mister Motorola hotshot. How convenient! Well, after scoping the specs I was pretty interested by this new phone. Weeks pass and along comes todays release date. Mind you, I have pretty much been talking myself down about purchasing the iPhone, more over, not considering a move to a new network. I went during lunch today and actually picked it up. Sleek indeed. It;s interface is smooth, graphics are crisper than the apple and mostly its an Android 2.o phone, meaning everything google (gmail, google calendar & contacts along with google maps) is native. At this point im already talking phone plans and pricing with the sales rep named Dior (how weird?). I walk out and again manage to convinve myself to wait it out, don’t get crazy and come back after work to pick this bad boy up. I make it all the way back to work and during some surfing downtime hit Engadget and what do I see, $50 off the Verizon’s “in store” price PLUS… the device is sold, from them, as $299 with a $100 rebate you have to wait. The ad on Engadget via Sears (yes, I said Sears – I didn’t even know they sold phones) for goes that for you so all you pay is $149.99. OMFGWTF. It’s a sign, what do you do?
It arrives on Monday.
