Saturday, July 12, 2008

Consumerism

It's nearly Tax time. Well, it IS tax time. Since 1st July. I'm supposed to get a raise, but that hasn't happened for 3 weeks. So it was pretty terrible. Anyways, I decided to upgrade my mobile.


The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic was what I chose. It's a nice thin phone, the other phone I would have chosen was 6500 Classic, but it was bit too expensive. Samsung's U100 is also a good choice, but that was also expensive.


So I got it and it's great. I event took a few photos to compare it against my Samsung T10.



It's not as slim as the mp3 player, but it's still a heck of a phone. Runs on Symbian S40 5th Edition Feature Pack 1, and comes with 1GB built in. Has a pretty good battery life, but it's winter so the battery life isn't optimal. The Samsung T10 has 8gb of memory and I'm running it at full capacity... :P And it's got 32 hours of continous life, so when I get to and from work everyday it's about 10 hours - easily lasts the week.


Why am I showing you a phone which isn't the iPhone 3G? Cos I don't wanna lug around a huge heavy phone, that's why. I work all day, and I have something at home which isn't tiny. Sure some people may call iPhone 3G the "Jesus" phone, but it's around $800 here for 8GB. My 8GB T10 was $160, and my mobile phone was $250, and my new addition (since yesterday) was a cheap price as well. Definately less than $800.


The below is my new addition.



Yeah yeah it's only a monitor.


The below was my previous setup. 22" on the Left, 19" on the right. A wallpaper of a movie I haven't seen yet.



Replace the 19" with a 24" and what do I get? Monitor envy (from my bro).




It sure beats the iPhone 3G in terms of quality and value :D
My bro says it's a waste that it's not my main screen. 1680 x 1050 vs 1920 x 1200. I don't think it's a waste. I still can operate on the right side of my desk if I want to, but the monitor's buttons are on the different side. FP222W has the power button on the LEFT of the monitor, and FP241W has the buttons on the RIGHT of the monitor. If I changed my layout, the both buttons will be in the MIDDLE. Which will be a pain of the ass to turn on and off every time.
Ahh I love my toys :P

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