Thoughts Of Your Future Dictator

I got a new phone yesterday.


It’s a spiffy Motorola V600. It’s a significant improvement over my Sony Ericsson T616 in almost every area. The only place it falls short is the phone book. It doesn’t allow you to have multiple numbers under a singe contact. So you have to create a new voice recording for each each one, versus one for the person and then saying the what kind of number you wanted to dial (Home, Mobile, Work, or Other). The best feature is the fact that it’s a flip phone and I don’t have to frigg’n unlock and relock the keys. It’s bluetooth range is phenomenal, it paired with my dad’s car when I was inside a restaurant. The screen also works in daylight, whereas the T616 was unusable in direct sunlight. So far, the voice dialing has worked as well as the T616, but I haven’t used it as much as I did with the T616. A major plus is that I can set varying ringing loudness levels easily, the T616 was difficult in that respect (so I used it in either silent or normal mode).

Some of it’s other cool (read: toys) are it’s external LCD, it’s mood lighting, camera, and MP3 ringtones. The external LCD lights up a nice blue and gives you various information you’d expect. It’s got a circular ring below the external LCD that glows various colors based on what’s happening. It pulses blue when Bluetooth is being used. It glows brightly when it’s being charged. And so on. The camera is also a slight improvement over the T616; offering a higher resolution, zoom, and better lighting adaptation. The pictures still suck too much to be put on the internet for anything more than a thumbnail. And as always, the ringtones available on this phone are the best you can get- they’re MP3s. I got two ringtones from Cingular: Brass Monkey (applied to Mike for when he calls) and Longview (Currently Applied to Adam). I’ll apply them to others as I get around to it. They sound real, but not completely crisp- close enough for most though. They also cost $2.49, and like anything a cell phone company does, they nickel and dime you by requiring Wireless Internet Express (as a pay as you go option it’s 1¢ per kilobype- an MP3 being about 70 KB and taking about 8-10 KB for the stuff you don’t see that lets you download it). I’m on a bundle that includes 1MB of data luckily. It does poly and monophonic ringtones too, so I used Bluetooth to get all my old ringtones that I liked.

All in all, it’s quite nice. Adam left about an hour ago after beating me down in Halo. And I’ve got to wake up in about 7 hours and I need my sleep. Oh yeah, Spider Man 2 was much better than the first. It was a little cheesy in some places (to be expected I suppose). But overall, it was a good improvement over the first: the characters were better, the story was a little more original (not by much), and the main character was far more realistic. Worth seeing if you have the time.