Grace (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} celestialblendr) wrote,@ 2008-07-01 20:18:00 |
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How not to lose your phone.
So, Verizon's been sending me sporadic e-mails for the last few months informing me that my two-year contract is coming up for renewal and that they would love to subsidize my next phone in return for signing on for another two years. I haven't had any complaints with my service, except that there was none in Vermont, but they've recently worked on that, so I'm back to fine and figured signing up again is simple.
Also, they seemed pretty firm on wanting to give me a phone for free, between the online discount and the re-signing discount. Several of the options featured built-in music players, which I found particularly intriguing. When it came down to it, there was only one phone which fit all of my qualifications.
There is one catch, though. It's purple. Really purple.
I've decided to embrace this under the guise that it'll be really difficult for someone else to mistake my phone for theirs and very hard to lose -- "Have you seen a purple cell phone?"
Plus, it solves the void I've had in my car since my tape player (and therefore my adapter through which I play CDs) has been nonfunctional (it immediately ejects any tape put into it). The built-in speaker is not half bad. Not great, but not bad. So long as I have it plugged into the lighter so it won't eat the batteries, it'll be a great solution for now. I do need to get a bigger memory card for it, though. It came with a 64-meg card (plus about the same internal memory), but I can get cards up to 4 gigs, which is surely enough music for almost any given car trip.
Also, after some minor research and finagling, I have been able to make this my ring, something about which I am perhaps a little too excited.
On that note, I leave you with the full sketch:
So, Verizon's been sending me sporadic e-mails for the last few months informing me that my two-year contract is coming up for renewal and that they would love to subsidize my next phone in return for signing on for another two years. I haven't had any complaints with my service, except that there was none in Vermont, but they've recently worked on that, so I'm back to fine and figured signing up again is simple.
Also, they seemed pretty firm on wanting to give me a phone for free, between the online discount and the re-signing discount. Several of the options featured built-in music players, which I found particularly intriguing. When it came down to it, there was only one phone which fit all of my qualifications.
There is one catch, though. It's purple. Really purple.
I've decided to embrace this under the guise that it'll be really difficult for someone else to mistake my phone for theirs and very hard to lose -- "Have you seen a purple cell phone?"
Plus, it solves the void I've had in my car since my tape player (and therefore my adapter through which I play CDs) has been nonfunctional (it immediately ejects any tape put into it). The built-in speaker is not half bad. Not great, but not bad. So long as I have it plugged into the lighter so it won't eat the batteries, it'll be a great solution for now. I do need to get a bigger memory card for it, though. It came with a 64-meg card (plus about the same internal memory), but I can get cards up to 4 gigs, which is surely enough music for almost any given car trip.
Also, after some minor research and finagling, I have been able to make this my ring, something about which I am perhaps a little too excited.
On that note, I leave you with the full sketch:
