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Got an iPhone on Saturday. Wait was an hour, at the Cambridgeside Apple Store. Actual purchase took another 30 minutes, including a very fast number-port. (So, yes, I have the same phone number.) Buyer's remorse is forever. No, not really; I definitely needed a new phone anyway coz my two oldies are both in fritzy condition after many years of bang-around use. And ever since using a Smartphone for the first time ever - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
classicaljunkie's Blackberry, during our Maine vacation last year - I have been making a mental note each time I've been on the sidewalk and thought gee it'd be useful if I could hit the Web right now.
Got the $300 16GB model. I like it. The actual-phone improvements seem to be just what they promised. While the quality of incoming voice sounds slightly fuzzier than what my old phones delivered, the reception is otherwise loud and clear, and I'll soon forget the difference. The visual voicemail interface is excellent. And I've just started to explore everything else it can do. I definitely like everything I'm seeing.
But now I am set up to pay $20 / month more for phone usage than I used to, and that's a bummer. I'm trying to alleviate it through proactivity: I just now canceled my subscription to WiFi at the Diesel Cafe, for which I was paying $14 / month. I do sometimes use it, but there are enough free options around now (hello True Grounds), to say nothing of the new cellular-based internet device in my pocket, that it just doesn't make good sense anymore. I still felt bad when the salesguy said "looks like you're a longtime user of ours"; I have been, for many years. I told him I was moving, even though he didn't ask why I was canceling (which was pretty awesome of him). (And, yes, I'm actually moving closer to the Diesel, if anything.)
I'm considering putting a temporary kibosh on the $5 that I donate to somafm.com every month as well, as the combined savings between that and Diesel would near-enough match the increased cost of my new AT&T plan over my old T-Mobile one. Oh, I probably can't bring myself to do it. I crank up one or another of its streaming stations whenever I need some pleasant sound-filler while I work, which is often.
classicaljunkie's Blackberry, during our Maine vacation last year - I have been making a mental note each time I've been on the sidewalk and thought gee it'd be useful if I could hit the Web right now. Got the $300 16GB model. I like it. The actual-phone improvements seem to be just what they promised. While the quality of incoming voice sounds slightly fuzzier than what my old phones delivered, the reception is otherwise loud and clear, and I'll soon forget the difference. The visual voicemail interface is excellent. And I've just started to explore everything else it can do. I definitely like everything I'm seeing.
But now I am set up to pay $20 / month more for phone usage than I used to, and that's a bummer. I'm trying to alleviate it through proactivity: I just now canceled my subscription to WiFi at the Diesel Cafe, for which I was paying $14 / month. I do sometimes use it, but there are enough free options around now (hello True Grounds), to say nothing of the new cellular-based internet device in my pocket, that it just doesn't make good sense anymore. I still felt bad when the salesguy said "looks like you're a longtime user of ours"; I have been, for many years. I told him I was moving, even though he didn't ask why I was canceling (which was pretty awesome of him). (And, yes, I'm actually moving closer to the Diesel, if anything.)
I'm considering putting a temporary kibosh on the $5 that I donate to somafm.com every month as well, as the combined savings between that and Diesel would near-enough match the increased cost of my new AT&T plan over my old T-Mobile one. Oh, I probably can't bring myself to do it. I crank up one or another of its streaming stations whenever I need some pleasant sound-filler while I work, which is often.