05.25.06
V Is For Virtuous
Now that I have meetings and other things to remember I deced to get a fancier phone. In the last two weeks I’ve been late to or completely forgotten at least three meetings. I have a mild interest in PDAs, but I don’t want to carry a PDA and a phone. PDA phone’s are just too damn expensive for something I’m not sure I want or need. So I went with The V, made by my favorite brand, LG. $150 is a much better price tag then $600 plus that come with the PDA phones. Doesn’t have as many features as a PDA phone, but I didn’t want them anyway.
I haven’t been able to play with the more sophisticated stuff like Bluetooth yet. I forgot to get Bluetooth stuff for my PC too. Never used Bluetooth so I’m a bit clueless. Any recomendations would be appreciated. Most the things I’m loving about it right now are appearance related. Dead sexy. Has the usual very bright and colorful front display with basic menu navigation. But when you flip it open and get the larger display all your menu options double or triple. I don’t remember seeing anything extraordinary in the menus besides a much better interface then my last phone. Especially with the contacts manager. Having a full, non squished QWERTY keyboard has been nicer then I expected too. I don’t mind T9 since I still only have to push each key once, but this is definitely better. I think I might actually use this thing for e-mail and such if I am out of town. I will even be able to post via e-mail. I could via browser, but even with the larger screen I’m thinking browsing the web wont be all that great. Might even set it up to work with IM clients. But not sure, since last time I did that MSN freaked and showed me as offline to random people all the time.
Speaker phone seems much more usefull on this model too. When you flip it open you have a nice, steady base and the incoming sound comes out the “stereo” speakers. You can do MP3s and videos and stuff like that this way too, but I’m not interested in that either.
Last feature I’ll talk about is the camera. I’m not that interested in this either, but I might use it now and then. I do like how they laid it out though. The back of the phone actually looks like a real camera. It uses the front display as your preview and the camera buttons are on the side/top. So it really feels and functions like an honest to God camera. Has that micro dealy that helps with close up pictures too. Not that it will make 1.3 megapixel images look less like ass.
All in all, very happy with it. Just wish it wasn’t such an ordeal to get it. It’s well known I there is no love loss between me and FedEx. Especially if you have seen my wonderful commercial (maybe I’ll link it later… maybe). I was supposed to recieve two packages yesterday, one from Newegg and one from Verizon. When I got home Verizon left a note saying they left it in a secret place, but then it also said they were unable to deliver it and I needed to drive my ass all the way back to Orem to get it. Found that confusing, but after checking their hiding place I understood the problem. The Newegg FedEx guy loves to play games with his deliveries. Each time it is in a new and adventurous place. When I got my last 19″ LCD it took me 30 minutes to find it. This time he put it in the place Verizon claimed they were going to. My theory is the Verizon delivery man left in a huff because the other delivery man stole his awesome idea. Sounds like a good script if I ever make another spiteful commercial.