Would it shock you to know that there are many people on the face of this earth that would gladly throw down 600 bills for a new phone? It shouldn’t. If you weren’t already aware, go look at Apple’s stock prices and then find me a compter they sell that’s less than 600 bucks. I am in no way insinuating that your grandma needs palm pre, but instead that you do.
It seems that the current age is one in which society has not fully accpeted the capabilities which high tech smart phones possess. Many of them are even more practical in ways than your computer.
These features include a better battery life, more portability, more customizability, and more practicality. What reserves do you have? You can touch an app and drag it, open it, multitask. You can talk on facebook chat, email with your pop server and read the huff post all at the same time. This is a computer! While the keyboard mght not quite be as large as your comuters, you’ll get used to it just like you did from the early computers.
If you’re lookin to join the fad and more forward, today happens to be the perfect day. With the release of Nokia’s N900, we see the birth of the transitionary devices between smartphones and Laptops. Think of the 900 as the big brother of the smartphone and the NetBook as the little brother of the laptop. You get a nice full qwerty with good seperation between keys, a 5mp Carl zeiss shooter, wifi, 3g, Maemo5 and a nice full touchscreen that is quite responsive.
This is a phone that you use everyday and feel and see the luxury of. This is nokia, the worlds largest cell phone manufacterer.
I implore you to get away from the novelty of a free phone and get the productiveness and accessability of a quality device. There are too many on the market to list but generally they sell on contract for about $200+ or off contract for about $400+
This is worth it.
November 12, 2009 at 9:03 am |
In every other civilized country cell phones are non subsidized. In layman’s terms: phones totally cost like 600 bucks dude. The plans are slightly cheaper but the phones are much more expensive because over there in Europa they understand that cell phones are THAT capable now. And maybe more importantly, for many of us, we use them even more than computers.
November 12, 2009 at 9:16 am |
I was referring more to america in which the spread between those that purchase on contract vs. off contract is incomparably large compared to any other serviced device. Because we have such heavily subsidized phones, it becomes a big deal to purchase one off contract despite the greater connectivity that it mirrors.