New Gadget Alert!

You know you're a techy at heart when you receive word that there's a package at home waiting for you and all you can do is bounce in your seat cause you can't wait to rip open that package and play with the new gadget that's buried in the layers of cellophane and styrofoam. In fact I am so excited that I'm declaring today as "New Cell Phone Day"! Now if there was only a way to turn that into a holiday so I could get the day off from work...

Cause you know, these things take time. Learning them that is. It's one thing to open the package and oooh and aaah over the flawless and unscratched plastic. It's a whole other thing entirely to figure it out. And if you're like me, you almost need a whole day to do just that. Not that they don't make these things intuitive enough to figure out on your own. It's just that I'm a dork. And I like to read the user manual too. The whole user manual. Heaven forbid some neat feature goes unknown. I'm way too nosy to let that happen.

In this package will be not one but 2 new cell phones since this time around dear hubby decided to go with something different than what I picked out. That's fine. But that means I now have 2 user manuals to read. Cause I know hubby won't be reading his manual any time soon. And since it's inevitable that he'll be asking me to help him figure it out, I might as well get up to speed on that one too.

So to commemorate this important occasion, I figured I'd put together a tribute to the past cell phones I've owned. Kinda freaky that I've been a cell phone owner for over 10 years now...

My very first cell phone - the Nokia 550, circa 1998. It was a beast and it was entirely analog. Despite that, it had fantastic coverage.


After a few years, it was time to downsize so I got the Motorola StarTac. Those were the bomb when they first came out.

But I was not impressed with the durability of the StarTac and the battery life was crap, so I went back to Nokia and got a 6610.

Then I jumped to LG with the VX8300. Time for another clamshell?

And now, the newest member to my cell family - the LG enV2.

Ok I guess I've developed a pattern over the last decade...candy bar phone, clamshell, candy bar phone, clamshell...And now I suppose I'm back to the candy bar phone, but this one also opens up like a clamshell. Best of both worlds? Have I finally come upon my ideal cell phone based on the bouncing back and forth between the different types? Only time will tell. I'll keep you posted!