January 6, 2006
Hello Moto
I've got to finish up the first week of the New Year by talking about two of the best tech toys that I got in 2005. To go along with this you need to hear the story of how I got this:
Nifty, eh? My wonderful husband managed to be incredibly sneaky and got me the phone I have been lusting after since the release of the GSM version last year. The big problem was, at the time, my husband was working for a CDMA wireless carrier (from whom we also got our wireless service) and there were no such phones for CDMA carriers. Until this year, that is. After the sneaky husband had taken a job at a new company (which we are not unhappy about, as the sneaky huband is much happier there -- at least from my perspective). So, of course, I started to point this out to the sneaky husband. Who, proceeded to tell me that even though other wireless carriers would have this phone, our wireless carrier was still in the QC process with it and it wouldn't be ready for Christmas (he's not there any more, but he still has connections). So I sulked a little bit. Made comments about the backasswardness of certain wireless carriers. And prepared to remind a certain sneaky husband about the phone around my birthday. Which is definitely after Christmas.
So what did the sneaky husband do? Well, first off, the sneaky husband knew that our wireless carrier was rushing to get this phone available to customers for Christmas just like all the other CDMA carriers. Sneaky husband staked out a store near his office and stalked them mercilessly to make sure that one of the small stock that was going to come in before Christmas was going to be his. I suspect that the sneaky husband might have been helping them unload the truck when they came in, but he just claims that he made sure that he got there they day they arrived.
Which left me very surprised to find my own personal Moto RAZR v3 under the tree.
Now, those of you who have been reading for a while, may know that I am a devout Palm user as well, and that my current phone has a Palm device integrated into it. How could I possibly be willing to give up that Palm functionality just for a thin, sexy flip phone case?
Well, the answer is that I am not really giving up anything at all. Do you remember this?
John won one of these at a conference he attended and I stole adopted it. However, because I had the Palm phone, I mostly just used the Tapwave to play games. But this device and my RAZR phone have one very important bit of functionality in common: they both can use the Bluetooth short-range wireless communication protocol to talk to each other. What does that mean? Well, now I have the best of both worlds. A sexy slim phone and an awesome Palm device that can talk to the phone and do neat things like browse the web and check email without me ever having to take the phone out of my handbag or coatpocket. Since the sneaky husband also bought be a Bluetooth card for my laptop, my laptop can even talk to my phone and use it as a modem when it is not otherwise connected to the internet and I desperately need a blog fix.
I just love being a geek girl sometimes! There are defintiely sometimes when a new tech toy can be better than a little bling...
Say a big hello moto to your sneaky husband. My husband knows that i need to get a new phone contract in about 10 days. He 'wants' me to get the V3x. Maybe he just wants to switch his old phone for 'my' new one!
You are not the only 'geek' knitter. Our daughter got the Nintedo dogs for her birthday last week. I am the one who spends more time with it. Now that she has gone back to school I only have to make sure it is charged up when she gets home!
It has cut into my knitting time though.
Any other gadgets we should know ab out?
I love geeky stuff :-) I am very happy with my new laptop and regularly either read bloggs or a book on it while I'm knitting. Add to that a Palm Zire72, a 30 Gb Ipod and my Samsung phone and I'm just about all gageted up
Me too; me too! lol I love techie stuff. And I agree it's way better than bling; I just loose bling anyway, and would rather have techie toys or power tools.
You lost me at hello, moto. Not a geek girl here, but that looks like a mighty fine phone (and a mighty fine man who snagged it for you, good job on the DH!)
I have a RAZR -- love it. My sneaky husband got me a Palm T|X for Christmas, which is WiFi -- I'm having fun! Isn't it great to be a "knitting geak-girl?"
Sorry -- no caffeine this morning -- "knitting geek-girl"
Aw, good hubby! New toys are always fun!
I love it when you talk techno.
The funniest moment of my Christmas was when my father got me a little Bluetooth headset for my phone (which is definitely NOT Bluetooth-enabled). I had told him I wanted a headset, not even thinking about the options out there in this fabulous hi-tech world... and he said to me, innocently, "Doesn't everyone have Bluetooth nowadays?" The two of you would have a great time talking tech with each other. What a lovely little phone!
I am guessing you have the T-M cell carrier, as only two carry the razr. Why do I know this? I work for the other one :)
I have a question, i have wanted for a long while now to be able to carry knitting patterns in my pocket! I was wanting to find a PDA that would open PDF files but not screw up the images. I have had friends test out some PDA's and they always screw up the pages, or do weird things to the images. Do you know a good way to do this?
BTW I love my razr, and my bluetooth powerbook, and they love each other hehe! So i feel your happyness, I got both for the holidays as well!
Geek right here, as well. As a cryptographer, I suppose I'm professionally geeky. Anyway, I very much approve of the Razr phones -- so pretty, and they talk to my computer! Seriously, how is it still not standard to walk up to your computer with your phone and download all of your contacts right into it? I refuse to type phone numbers into my phone, because the stupidity of it bugs me. Ah, well. When I defend my thesis and get a real job, perhaps I can buy one. Congrats, Theresa!
Long time lurker here...I love reading your posts about techno/gadget stuff. When I try to talk with fiends about this stuff they look "blown away". They are even more confused when I start talking about "blogs".
Your geek talk makes me swoon. I can only aspire to such tech geekiness.
I really need a Palm phone.
I love tech toys :)
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I sure do like how excited you are about them!
Nice new toy! I'm lusting after the Razr, too...although I don't think it would talk to my PDA. (I have a Dell Axim but no bluetooth.)
Girl techno geeks unite! ;-)
I love my silver RAZR phone too. It rocks. Who couldn't love "hello Moto" and the tunes it plays for rings that sound like techno raves? My clients always recognize it, and think it's great, too.
if there is one thing that will make me miss living in the US... it is things like this :)