Phone rant

[mdlbear]

So, in order to move our service from our old AT&T plan (which isn't offered anymore because they were bought by Cingular) to a new, same-price-but-much-better (no roaming, unlimited in-plan calls, unlimited night and weekend) Cingular plan, we had to abandon our old TDMA phones and get shiny new GSM phones. OK, that's an improvement, except that there seem to be lots of data services that all cost $0.01/KB. Well, let's hope it's hard to get to them by accident.

The flower_cat and I both got nice little Nokia 3120's. Smaller, lighter, and better battery life than the old ones. Pretty color display. A mysterious letter G in the upper-left-hand corner; no sign of it in the manual. Roughly the same loathsome UI as the previous Nokia phones, except that there are three times as many menu items so it takes that much longer to navigate.

I HATE PHONES! If they weren't so damned indispensible in this miserable world I'd be perfectly happy never to have to deal with one again. And cell phones are worse.

Comments

[netolu.livejournal.com]

You never notice just how much you depend on a cell phone until you no longer have one at your access. The antenna on my Nokia 5165 finally broke after all these years, and now I can't use it unless i'm in the car. Mobile phone booth is not much fun in 95+ deg weather.