After years of suffering my old crap phone and my old crap carrier, I’ve finally upgraded to my nice new celly: the Audiovox SMT 5600. This phone is the smallest, thinnest smart phone on the market*, and I love it. (Incidentally, it’s not made by Audiovox, but a contract manufacturer called HTC, who sells it to multiple carriers and regions worldwide.)
Since I organize most of my life through MS Outlook and my work has Exchange server, it seamlessly ties all the pieces of my life together; email and txt messages, calendaring, to do lists, etc.
But the best part of owning this phone is finally having the holy grail of telecoms; having a single, synchronized, contact list. This is hardly ground breaking news to any one has had a PDA in the last five years, but after feeling like a chump with my old phone (that didn’t even have a interface between the text messaging and my phone book!) I feel so blessed.
A couple of other benefits:
It’s small and it doesn’t look like I’m pressing a small paper back book to my face when I try to call. Seen anyone talk into a blackberry? Yeah, you guessed it. You look like a twat.
It’s inexpensive. I got mine from ‘younevercall.com‘ which ironically has a very good telephone based customer service. And in addition, they have a site called ‘whereismyorder.com’ to track your order. nice domain names, huh?
The battery life is good for a few days at a time.
I think it’s time my old phone takes a trip down to the woodshop where the band saw sits…
*Check Engadget or Gizmodo for daily updates on how out of date this statement becomes.
