I'm not feeling terribly guilty about posting off topic because the weather's been crappy since the weekend and promises to be the same for some days to come.
I woke up yesterday with an indescribable feeling of dread. I guessed that I'd been dreaming about something unspeakable right before I awoke - so horrible that my conscious brain wouldn't allow me to remember it though my subconscious wouldn't let go of the associated horror. I walked around all day looking over my shoulder and feeling agitated and somewhat fearful for no reason that I could put a finger on at all except for believing that it had to have come from a dream. By the time I got out of work I knew I needed to do something positive to shake the awful mood - like get a new cell phone.
The rugged phone I looked at a while back when the wife and girls were upgrading theirs was the Samsung Rugby. It was on the market before the Motorola Tundra premiered and it looked like a good, substantial phone. The only things that turned me off to it originally were its proprietary charger/data/headset interface, and the fact that Samsung's keys wouldn't be as similar to the Motorola V365 that I was so accustomed to using. That and the less than nine hours of talk time to a charge, but no other phone in the world seemed to be able to outdo the V365 on that. And so, on Monday after work, I got myself a Rugby. For a few dollars less than I'd paid for the Tundra alone I got the Rugby, a bluetooth headset, a car charger, a 4 Gig expansion card, and a case, and I'll be getting two hefty rebates from AT&T.
I used it last night and all day today and I'm 80% used to it already. I was able to find a headset adapter that allows me to use all of my old wired headsets and a USB data cable at great prices. For now, I'm more than satisfied, and if I get as much quality out of this as I did from the V365 I'll be totally happy.
I woke up yesterday with an indescribable feeling of dread. I guessed that I'd been dreaming about something unspeakable right before I awoke - so horrible that my conscious brain wouldn't allow me to remember it though my subconscious wouldn't let go of the associated horror. I walked around all day looking over my shoulder and feeling agitated and somewhat fearful for no reason that I could put a finger on at all except for believing that it had to have come from a dream. By the time I got out of work I knew I needed to do something positive to shake the awful mood - like get a new cell phone.
The rugged phone I looked at a while back when the wife and girls were upgrading theirs was the Samsung Rugby. It was on the market before the Motorola Tundra premiered and it looked like a good, substantial phone. The only things that turned me off to it originally were its proprietary charger/data/headset interface, and the fact that Samsung's keys wouldn't be as similar to the Motorola V365 that I was so accustomed to using. That and the less than nine hours of talk time to a charge, but no other phone in the world seemed to be able to outdo the V365 on that. And so, on Monday after work, I got myself a Rugby. For a few dollars less than I'd paid for the Tundra alone I got the Rugby, a bluetooth headset, a car charger, a 4 Gig expansion card, and a case, and I'll be getting two hefty rebates from AT&T.
I used it last night and all day today and I'm 80% used to it already. I was able to find a headset adapter that allows me to use all of my old wired headsets and a USB data cable at great prices. For now, I'm more than satisfied, and if I get as much quality out of this as I did from the V365 I'll be totally happy.
It was a decided bonus that the Rugby has a sturdy metal loop on the back. I was able to keep the string and bead that I had on the V365 to make it easier to remove it from its holster. The Tundra had no point of attachment for a strap of any kind, and that was another disappointment. I wanted to keep the string from the old Motorola as a reminder of the great times we'd had together. Yeah, I'm an old softie like that.
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So you tell us Is this the one?
Seems to be!
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