Adventures in Phone Shopping
It's time to take advantage of my New-every-Two deal at Verizon, so I've been busying myself with reading online reviews and quizzing my friends as to what they know or have heard about various phones. What I have found, however, is that presently Verizon Wireless seems to have two main strategies as to cell phones: crappy or ugly.
I love the look of the pink razr. Sleek, feminine, compact... The only problem is that everyone who has one or who has ever used one hates them. Apparently it is hard to text on them, and that's kind of a deal breaker. Afterall, why talk when you could just text? Also they break frequently, the camera falls off, and sometimes they just die for no reason. I guess that is why they are so cheap these days. So the pink razr is a pipe dream.
Then there's the other two phones I've been considering from LG: Here's the first- the LG VX8300.
. As you can see, it is cool in a 2003 sort of way. It is supposed to work well, according to all the reviews, but it is not cute! It is chunky! I'm going to have this cell phone for the next two years (hopefully), and I don't want to be stuck with some chunky, clunky looking thing. Bad design kills it.
The last phone I've been considering is the LG VX 8600:
. As you can see, this one is sleek like the razr, just in a mortician-chic sort of way. The design team got it half right in that the idea is to make it look cool, it is just way too Star Trek meets Six Feet Under. Plus it holds finger prints, and I know how I am; I'd have to carry around alcohol swabs to avoid having my phone look like fingerprint dustings at a crime scene.
I guess I should count my blessings that this is what occupies my thoughts right now.. But it's just so frustrating. With all the talented people in the tech and design industry, this is the best Verizon has to offer right now!?! Ugh. It's not even worth it.
I love the look of the pink razr. Sleek, feminine, compact... The only problem is that everyone who has one or who has ever used one hates them. Apparently it is hard to text on them, and that's kind of a deal breaker. Afterall, why talk when you could just text? Also they break frequently, the camera falls off, and sometimes they just die for no reason. I guess that is why they are so cheap these days. So the pink razr is a pipe dream. Then there's the other two phones I've been considering from LG: Here's the first- the LG VX8300.
. As you can see, it is cool in a 2003 sort of way. It is supposed to work well, according to all the reviews, but it is not cute! It is chunky! I'm going to have this cell phone for the next two years (hopefully), and I don't want to be stuck with some chunky, clunky looking thing. Bad design kills it.The last phone I've been considering is the LG VX 8600:
. As you can see, this one is sleek like the razr, just in a mortician-chic sort of way. The design team got it half right in that the idea is to make it look cool, it is just way too Star Trek meets Six Feet Under. Plus it holds finger prints, and I know how I am; I'd have to carry around alcohol swabs to avoid having my phone look like fingerprint dustings at a crime scene. I guess I should count my blessings that this is what occupies my thoughts right now.. But it's just so frustrating. With all the talented people in the tech and design industry, this is the best Verizon has to offer right now!?! Ugh. It's not even worth it.
Labels: Consumerism
posted by aerin at 12:51 PM
1 Comments:
I have the VX8300 and I don't think it's too clunky. Then again, I think 2003 was the best! year! ever! so there's that.
I agree, in general, about Verizon's crap-ass phones. I hate to say it, but Cingular has much better phones. I want a Nokia.
One last comment, then I'm done: you and I are so alike - the fact that fingerprints would be all over my phone is enough to make me recoil in horror. Alcohol swabs? Brilliant idea.
Post a Comment
<< Home