Proper Phone

I finally committed myself to a new phone last week and thus consign my trusty ol' PDA and tiny screen nokia to a dusty shelf. Had my eye on this, the HTC Desire HD, for a while after seeing it was finally a phone with a big fat screen running something other than the old Windows mobile. This phone replaces my nokia 1650 which was the cheapest one I could find at the time and which itself replaces a nokia 1110 that I bought in duty free when I arrived here and which, despite it's tiny green screen, was stolen on a bus last year! (this in a city where every last person seems to spend every second of travel looking at their expensive iPhones) After my brief stint in Japan I just couldn't bare to pay lots of money for a supposed top end phone in Ireland with a crap tiny colour screen, even if it was 3G, compared to the amazing phones I'd seen in Japan, and even the relatively modest one I'd bought there had email straight away and a vastly superior screen to anything back in Ireland. So instead of buying an expensive phone with a tiny screen, I went and got an Acer PDA, which let me watch videos (I think I must have watched most of season 2 of the Wire on it), one they were reduced in resolution and sound quality, browse the web with a stylus whenever some generous cafe had internet access. I even managed to use google maps to find my hotel and play old nintendo games when travelling. So despite not really having used it as a store for contacts or appointments it's been in my bag practically every day. And all the time I thought how if there was just a phone attachment or something it would be perfect. Now with this phone I have that device. It does everything the Acer did (I don't have to squeeze down the videos), the screen is as big (widescreen now), I can use the internet without a stylus, don't have to rely on the wireless in a cafe, and install tonnes of apps. It even has a camera! A camera in a phone! Genius. Sure the iPhone has been out for a few years now, but with its smaller screen I'd hate watching video on it. But there are downsides, oh yes. You have to recharge it almost every day. Every bleedin' day! My nokia goes a full week without charging and even my PDA would last a few days of constant use. And if I was to consider carrying this on my body instead of in a bag I'd be reduced to wearing cargo trousers from 1997 with huge pockers. So in my bag it'll stay.