cell phone flip flop

Most of you know I’m currently shopping for a (newish) cell phone.  I don’t have a phone right now- my contract ended just before I went to Africa, and since then I’ve never really needed to get a new phone.  But now I think it’s just about coming to the time to get a phone.  Yet it’s becoming kind of ridiculous.

When I first started looking at phones and reading cell phone reviews, I wanted to get a smartphone.  I would like having the ability to create documents on-the-go, as well as a strong music player, camera, and good voice phone quality.  Plus it would be easier to write texts on a QWERTY keyboard.  Then I saw the prices for smartphones listed on many of the review sites.  I thought, that costs way too much!  So I decided to look at standard flip-phones or candy bar phones.

But I just couldn’t find a standard 12-button keypad that provided the features I wanted- music player, camera, voice phone, fairly easy text-writing, and hopefully word processing software.  I also discovered that the listed prices for smartphones did not include the discount associated with a contract.  So, back to smartphones.

I looked at the smartphones, but was still unable to find a phone that contained the features I wanted.  Most smartphones are made to be heavy on the business-usage.  The features that are important for business usage are just not what I need!  That was when my sister told me about her phone, the Sony W850i.  She loves that phone, and it contained many of the features I wanted – a great music player, a great 2mp camera, outstanding voice phone, and the rest of it I can deal with.  Okay then- I’ll get the Sony W850i.  Sony makes good products, and this one will be fine for me.

Today I discovered that Sony no longer makes the W850i.  Instead they make two other phones, which both appear to me to be sub-par to the W850i.  So now I’m back to the smartphones.  I’m starting to get fed up with this.