Phone freaks

I changed 4 mobile phones within 10 months & 3 for hubby. I'm being known as someone who "plays" handphones by some colleagues & the boss. They usually go "huh, change phone again?". It's never our intention to change phones so frequently though we do like to explore new phones. Nothing to be proud of actually... each time we trade in, we tend to lose more than 20% of what we paid.

Why then??

Perhaps the more you pay for a phone, the higher the expectations you have. And I seriously think there isn't a phone that's really good & stable now. Or is it me?

Previously hubby would let me use the new phones & he always took over mine... till last year we bought a pair of Samsung E730.

In Oct 06, sold our E730 & bought Samsung X820. I've forgotten what's the problem for mine but it's always self-rebooting for hubby's. So before the price dropped even further, we traded them in. One lesson we learnt.. Samsung phones are nice to have but low resale value.

Mar 07, Nokia E65 was my next phone after X820. It's supposed to be the first Nokia phone with wifi that's the most compact. Besides the normal hanging & no reception at times, the other party always complained the volume was too soft. Hubby got a Nokia 6300 at the same time.

Jun 07, Nokia N70 music edition with 1GB memory. Was deciding between Nokia N73 (I love the 3.2 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens) & Sony Ericsson K810i (another 3.2 MP camera). N73 was out of stock at that moment & after some consideration, I decided to get N70 instead as just needed to top up $50. And I gotta admit IT'S A WRONG CHOICE. I know lagging would be part & parcel for a Symbian phone. Besides, the reception always blanked out... like there's one night just before we slept I realised there's an incoming sms from sis & I wanted to reply but no network. Usually when this happened I would go & choose the network manually (hubby taught me so because by switching on/off wasn't useful) but I was too lazy to do that. The next morning when I woke up, there's still no reception. And this no-network problem had become as frequent as several times a day. Then the phone, when in crazy mode, also refused to accept instructions, eg. I clicked to use certain function, it appeared to process but after a few secs would still go back to the main screen. Constance's hubby who used the same phone, had problems with it too.

By the way, we sold the E65 at a very high price of $430... about $50 above the market resale rate... kind of a consolation.

Last Sunday, I gave up my N70 & bought Sony Ericsson S500i. As for hubby, he surrendered his Nokia 6300 when it began to "selectively" receive smses. And the speaker cracked. He bought a LG phone with very basic functions.. imagine there's no bluetooth. Thankfully it's a colored screen. Hehe. Just nice for his reservist next week. The phone is so light & small that everyone says it's just like the audio remote control in our car.

Now I just want a simpler phone that can take reasonably clear pictures & won't give me much problems. So far so good though yet to confirm... fingers crossed. Like the slimness & black-green combi.

Last evening hubby got me a 1GB memory stick. He's waiting for Sept (with 21-month upgrade) to get me a new phone so he can take over my S500i.

So, 2 months later you'll see me with a new phone, again.