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Upgrading My Phone
It happened sooner than I thought, but I upgraded my cell phone yesterday. While I love the design of Nokia phones and the interface, the Nokia phone that I had started to have problems again with the 1, 2, and 3 keys not working along with the left soft key. So I called the phone company to ask what my options were since I knew that I couldn't upgrade until November. Luckily there is a merger going on, so things are changing and they waved the buyout fee (which would have been $100) and approved me for a hardware upgrade.
So I started looking for a new phone and discovered that my provider (Aliant Mobility, who is merging with Bell Mobility) no longer had any Nokia phones in their lineup, so I realized that for my fourth cell phone I would have to switch brands after having 3 different Nokia phones. I don't like flip phones, so that eliminated most of the phones, and I narrowed the brands down to LG or Motorola. The two models I was thinking about were the LG Shine (the flip one, since they don't have the slider) and the Motorola ROKR Z6m. The ROKR seemed sturdier and I really like the slider design, so that's what I went with.
It has a camera (still and video) and music-playing features. I don't think that I'll ever listen to music on it (or really watch video either), since that's what my iPod is for. I did try out some music with it and remarkably it has a standard mini plug so that you can use any headphones to listen to music. The phone also charges with a miniUSB plug, which means I can charge it from my computer or in the car with the same charger that I can use with my iPod and the transmitter for the radio, so that's a big plus. Strangely, the USB connecting doesn't let the microSD card show up on my MacBook Pro, so I need to send files back and forth via Bluetooth.
I also found out that the operating system of the phone is a variant of Linux, which is pretty cool and I was able to download and use the Gmail application for checking my mail which I couldn't use before. I also can add my own ringtones, which is very good since that ability is often deactivated on phones, so even though I don't think I'll have a long of songs for ringtones, I can customize things a bit. I'm still getting used to the interface and slightly-different key layout for text messaging, but I think that it's going to be a good phone.
So I started looking for a new phone and discovered that my provider (Aliant Mobility, who is merging with Bell Mobility) no longer had any Nokia phones in their lineup, so I realized that for my fourth cell phone I would have to switch brands after having 3 different Nokia phones. I don't like flip phones, so that eliminated most of the phones, and I narrowed the brands down to LG or Motorola. The two models I was thinking about were the LG Shine (the flip one, since they don't have the slider) and the Motorola ROKR Z6m. The ROKR seemed sturdier and I really like the slider design, so that's what I went with.
It has a camera (still and video) and music-playing features. I don't think that I'll ever listen to music on it (or really watch video either), since that's what my iPod is for. I did try out some music with it and remarkably it has a standard mini plug so that you can use any headphones to listen to music. The phone also charges with a miniUSB plug, which means I can charge it from my computer or in the car with the same charger that I can use with my iPod and the transmitter for the radio, so that's a big plus. Strangely, the USB connecting doesn't let the microSD card show up on my MacBook Pro, so I need to send files back and forth via Bluetooth.
I also found out that the operating system of the phone is a variant of Linux, which is pretty cool and I was able to download and use the Gmail application for checking my mail which I couldn't use before. I also can add my own ringtones, which is very good since that ability is often deactivated on phones, so even though I don't think I'll have a long of songs for ringtones, I can customize things a bit. I'm still getting used to the interface and slightly-different key layout for text messaging, but I think that it's going to be a good phone.
Comments
The only problem that I found is: there is no enter key, you can't make a new line. :(