off the bell curve.

i went out looking for a new cellphone yesterday. i've had a nokia 6820 for a cuople years now, but technology keeps moving on, and i had the urge to see if it was worth it to try and take advantage of the upgrades cingular keeps offering me.

it isn't.

oddly enough, the 6820 is perfect for me: it makes calls, it's relatively small, and it's easy to text-message on (all hail the full QWERTY keyboard! hail!) i checked out a fancy walkman phone from sony-ericsson and another high-end s60 symbian phone from nokia. with neither of them could i figure out text-messaging. and i neither need nor want a blackberry/treo/pocketpc phone. i don't need a phone that can sync with an exchange server and track my calendar and my gas mileage and when the next krakatoa eruption will happen.

apparently, someone has decided that mashing 26 characters onto 8 keys is a good idea. the 6820 has a shitty camera and it scratches up my ipod, but for what i use a phone for, i can't find a better one. "aha," you say, "why not wait for the iphone?" i'm not even going to consider the iphone. for that kind of money, i'd rather have a PS3. honestly. even if there aren't any games for it. unless someone else is paying, i guess ;)

this is what i get for not using a phone like everyone else, apparently. very sigh.