Got a haircut (paid via bank card)
Got my new glasses & contacts (prepaid w/ bank card)
Saw a skyway after a truck tore out part of its underside. People were still walking in it, and it looked stable, but I took the ground-bound route.
Along the way, I found I was missing my bank card. And I had less than $8 in cash on me. Medium soup and mini-baguette for lunch.
Several hours later, no one seems to have charged anything to it. I suspect I left it at home somehow.
I’ve decided to get a LG VX-9800 once I get my hands on my credit card again. It has a keyboard, it plays mp3s, it takes pictures and records video. It _should_ fit in my pocket. If I re-up w/ Verizon for another two years, it’s only $200. Two birds, one stone. I’ll get a better camera when I’m better off financially. After I get me that 17″ flat panel.
Now at work, and suffering for want of motivation.
LG VX-9800
I thought about that phone, but it’s not a true ‘smartphone’ like the Treo – and has limited functionality for email and such. I’m sure you have a cost benefits matrix all worked out 😉 but read some reviews – it changed my mind.
mmmm 17 inches….
Re: LG VX-9800
Well, there were two major problems with the Treo. 1) It looks significantly wider, and thus less pocketable and 2) it requires a mail-in rebate to get an equivalent cost + for a phone/pda that has no camera.
I should probably at least check them out in person at some convenient Verizon store.
There may be a cheaper alternative if I switch services, but thus far, Verizon’s been not too bad for me.
Re: LG VX-9800
’tis a quandry – I’m happiest by far with Verizon – though they have crippled both the Treo and the LG uberphones. I can’t use my phone as a modem via bluetooth – yet. There are similar problems with the LG. The treo has a camera. It’s a vga cam though.
Both use a service called ‘wireless sync’ that provides an online redirect for pop mail – so that’s cool, and a calendar feature – but to sync with a PC, the pc must be on, online and have a little ap running – so now I don’t really use that. The cool thing about the treo is that you can do multiple email accounts. pop, gmail, etc.
Verizon makes you pay for all this – a $45 broadband access fee – look carefully at the structure of the costs. I only went with it all because my company subsidizes my phone. Cingular apparently has good cheap full service smartypants phones.
Say, is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?