I “accidentally” bought a new mobile phone. I’ve been quite happy with my Nokia 5210 – but it’s been looking increasingly tired as I’ve somehow managed to get a pretty nasty scratch across the display in addtion to the cracks I made the first week I owned it… And it’s almost two years old. So.
I’ve been oogling Nokias with inbuilt cameras for a while (it’s not that I feel particularly loyal to Nokia, I just can’t be bothered to learn all the menus, functions and shortcuts of a new system, so I’m sticking with them anyway), especially the one Meg has. And then the other week Tele2 advertised a Nokia 3200 for only 200 nok! Now, it turned out that to get it at that price you had to get a “business” account at 149 nok a month, with a 12-month contract as minimum – so it wasn’t such a brilliant deal after all. But with a 49 nok account you could get the phone for 850 nok – I thought “That’s more like it!” and hit the “Order now” button. Ooops.
Well, nevermind, it’s a nice present-for-myself-for-getting-a-bonus (the rest of the bonus going towards a kitchen, which, though good, is not much fun).
So. New toy. Mucho fun. Unfortunately my laptop’s in for service so I have no infrared port for downloading pictures from the phone at the moment, but that’s a temporary glitch. However, I was pleasantly surprised at the concept for changing covers that this model has. The actual plastic case is see-through and you can create your own paper covers to go inside (much like those mugs I used to covet when I was a kid). The phone comes with two ready-made covers, one of which is a nice blue with a somewhat hypnotic effect… The design “changes” as you move angle of viewing it – like those stickers that have an “action” effect by having several designs that are visible depending on the angle (you know what I mean?). Hours of amusement.
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Other Good Things: I now have a spare charger so that I can keep one in my bag for work etc. (I keep running out of battery at inconvenient times) and the battery on the old one is the same type as the new one, so I have a spare battery, too. And I’ve got a spare mobile phone. Useful, I suppose. At least if anyone makes good of the threat of banning phones with cameras.