Sunday, July 15, 2007

Resisting the temptation to spend $$$

Trying very hard to resist buying a new handphone...

Lotsa people very upset with me coz I never pick up the phone. My phone's not very loud to begin with and it's almost always buried deep in whichever bag I'm using and protected by its thick pouch.

So, very tempted to buy a new phone. Plus, it's been a year since I bought my Eten. Fingers itching to try new phone interface. Also, need a slimmer phone to go out with when I'm using a very small bag or without a bag at all.

Anyway, it's basically down to these 3 choices:

Top Choice: Motorola SLVR L72

Pros:
  • Includes USB cable
  • Free 512 MB MicroSD card (which costs less than $10 anyway)
  • FM radio
  • Chinese characters

Cons:
  • Has to pay $48
  • Not very pretty design
  • A big bulky but thin (11 mm)





Second Choice: Samsung Ultra Edition 8.4 (Z370)

Pros:
  • Includes USB cable (but useless coz it's USB 1.1)
  • Very thin (8.4 mm)
  • Chinese characters

Cons:
  • Has to pay $38
  • Even less pretty than the Motorola (why dun have the black version???)
  • Very slow USB 1.1 (if I choose to use USB but since it's 1.1, it's highly doubtful)





Third Choice: Sony Ericsson K610i Lite

Pros:
  • Great design
  • It's red in colour
  • $0!!!

Cons:
  • Use of Memory Stick (but it comes with free 64 MB Memory Stick... enough for 20 songs?)
  • Thick (17 mm)
  • No earpiece (how to listen to music???)
  • No USB cable (but guess I can use Bluetooth for file transfers...)

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