I Got A New Phone

It can take pictures. I’ve always wanted to be able to carry a camera everywhere I go. Now I guess I have to. (To an extent.)

The camera doesn’t seem to do too well in dark places, though. The quality in all lighting environments seems to be below average. My brother assured me that the quality is better than what is shown on the tiny built-in LCD, recalling his experience with his old phone/camera combo.

I am tempted to purchase a $60 USB cable in order to upload/download without a 25 cent charge. Yet the documentation is thoroughly lacking. I don’t know what I get if I plop down $60 for the two of us. (My brother and I have the same phone.) All I know is that there is a USB cable available—whether or not it serves the purposes I wish it to serve is another matter.

My phone is actually thoroughly disappointing, in many ways. It’s way too fragile—there is nothing protecting what I call the “lens,” the outermost layer of plastic/glass. Now I must dedicate an entire pocket to it in the hopes of preserving my future digital photography.

There are two left and two right buttons, which in most cases are exclusively used of each other. Why not just combine the buttons into bigger, easier to push ones instead?

The manual is pathetic. The table of contents is too dense and the actual sections describing each function are too sparse. The quick reference guide was more helpful than the thick manual.

There was a lacking of freebies—one phone holster that is poorly designed (as my brother whined about) and no hands-free, no car charger, etc.

There are a lot of other, minor annoyances that show that this phone wasn’t really well tested before shipping. They just add up to a lot. (In other words, I’m too tired to write anymore.)