New Phone

Voila! The Motorola SLVR L7. My newest gizmo.

I woke up on Friday and my cell phone was dead. It wouldn’t charge and when ever I took it of the charger it displayed the charging icon for a few seconds and then shut off. I went to Cingular but they carried no batteries. The cheapest phones (without a new or extended contract) were well in the $200 plus range. By the way the cheapest ones sucked. So I jumped on the train due to the power problems throughout Queens was running the worst that I have ever seen in all of my years in NY. I took almost an hour to get to Flushing, Queens.

The Chinese merchants out there have the best phone deals in my opinion. After about 40min of browsing and asking prices on different phones, I settled on the new Motorola SLVR L7. It was now about 4pm and I had been disconnected since the night before which was a sort of calm silent eerie feeling of social dismemberment. All of my numbers were stored in my phone not my SIM card which was perfectly empty without a single bite of information on it. I then understood why my old phone was always saying the memory was full. I would have to enter all of my contacts by hand until my little text button thumbs went numb. Oh yeah and I would not be able to access my voicemail until I found out what was the specific number that I was supposed to call in order to access it. Oh, and of course I would not be able to use the phone until I charged the battery for the initial charge ridiculously long period of time.

So I come home to the first electrical outlet not overburdened by electrical cords enough to merit a fire code violation. I opened the box to find that the phone charger was not there. Shit! I call the dealer and he says no problem, just come over and we’ll give it to you. He obviously didn’t just take two trains in the worst of subway schedules. I was so pissed. I walk right out and go back to subway. It now took almost two hours to get to the same place. There must have been 2000 people waiting for trains at the Queensborough Plaza. You can imagine the rest, getting off, running to the stores minutes before it closed and the long hot non air-conditioned ride back. Atlas, a phone, a charger, a means of attaching my self back on the social nipple of security but then there was a power surge and the power went out.

No, that last part didn’t really happen (the power going out part) but it would have made for a great ending right? Anyway, I love my new phone. I usually get one of the cheap ones that come with initial plans. You know the no frills, no bells and whistles phone that becomes a last year’s model one week after kind. This is the nicest phone I have ever had. Although, there were way cooler more expensive ones with probably microwaves and teleportation upgrades. But I like mine just fine. As said before, it’s the nicest phone I have ever had. It has so many features I am only familiar with 10% of them. But it came with a bible sized manual that explains it all. Actually its only 92 pages long but I learned how to save numbers and text. That’s the basics, enough for now.

I also ordered all these cool protective skins for it. Color coordination, after all is key.