sorcyress | (no subject)

So, my phone is borked. Which is to say, the internal bits of the charging mechanism no longer work reliably. Buying a new charger will not fix this problem. When the battery is *charged* the rest of the phone works just fine, but it's hard as hell to ensure the battery is reliably charged.

I am cranky as hell about this. Most anyone who knows me recognizes that my cell phone, who is officially named DevilBoxen, is a nuisance, something I put up with having because yes, occasionally it is useful to be able to text people or call them or whatever. And because wifi still isn't reliably everywhere enough for me to just drag my laptop everywhere, or get a netbook.

At any rate, just in case something goes terribly wrong, I am busy copying down all the numbers I have in there right now. I've accumulated an awful lot over the past two and a half years, and some of you people have terrific names --"Conor Short Hair", "Lezzie Beth", "David Pigtails", "Chris Wombat"...lovely stuff, and I immediately know who every one of the so labeled people are. (And I bet in at least two cases, you do too!)

So, I ask you a Highly Important question. If I were to put your number into my phone, under any name you could possibly choose, what name would it be? In a perfect world, it'd be a name I can remember is yours --this is why I input tons of handles, and have a few different people marked as being met at Diesel-- but this isn't a perfect world, and I want to know how you think you should be listed.

Go wild!

~Sor
MOOP!

ETA: Bonus points if you correctly guess what name I already have you under!

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What everyone really should do is get a pdaphone and sync it to their computer regularly (almost-daily). Of course, "everyone" should also be making frequent backups of their computer, like once a week or more. That way, "everyone" would have their contacts on their phone, on their computer, and on their backup - three copies, and never losing more than the last few days of updates.

That would involve getting a PDAphone. My phone was very specifically chosen because it was the only model I could get that was just a phone --no web, no GPS, and NO BLOODY CAMERA.

I'm pretty sure that the third of those, at least, will have to be given into. And I'm deeply annoyed by that, because I don't want a shitty camera attached to my phone. I have a perfectly good point and shoot that's just a little bigger than the phone, and has *significantly* better resolution, options, and UI.

I've tried using PDAs before, and I don't. There's no point to me having one --it's currently more crucial that I just make sure I have all the numbers now. If I did lose the numbers, not the end of the world --there's not a person on there who I don't have other options of communication with.

~Sor

Hmm. You don't want web, gps, or camera, but is there a reason you really want to NOT have them? I mean, would they hurt you with their presence, if they just happened to come along with some other feature that was useful (like the ability to sync) ?

I've gotta say, my previous phone was chosen because it had a camera. I never ever used the camera, but it balanced in my hand much better than its cameraless cousin. (And I could afford to think of a camera as feature-which-makes-it-less-topheavy instead of feature-that-takes-pictures)

I have an old camera-less Nokia I can wipe & pass onto you. Phone & text only; when I walked into the Sprint store to purchase a new batteryfor it the clerks literally laughed at me. I had to get the battery online.

Edited 2010-01-30 05:09 (UTC)