SLVR Me Timbers
I finally broke down and bought a new cell phone the other day. I got a Motorola SLVR, to replace my Motorola V330, which was a replacement for my previous V330 (battery life of 2.5 days - which one guy I spoke with said was just fine - thankfully his colleagues aren't all from Dumbfuckistan!), which was a replacement for my Sony Ericsson T610 (nothing but static on calls). I was planning on getting a Sony Ericsson W810, but, well, it's not available, and when it finally does come out, it'll probably cost a small fortune.
To say the SLVR rocks would be an understatement (it would also be confusing, because the Motorola ROKR is supposed to rock - so maybe the SLVR slivs?). It's got everything I need in a phone - it's small (I carry my phone in my front pants pocket, so the unsightly bulge of the V330 was getting tiresome - you can only hear "is that a V330 in your pocket or are you happy to see me" so many times in one day). It has bluetooth, it plays MP3s, and it just plain looks awesome. Ok, it's got a mere VGA camera, but do I care? (no, I don't)
I've only had it for three days so I certainly haven't tried every feature it has to offer, but of the ones I've tried, the only things I'm not so fond of are:
- No matter how large a memory stick thing I put in it (it comes with 512MB), iTunes will only let me put 100 songs on it. That's not so bad really, as my memory's short enough that I wouldn't realize I had heard something a few hours earlier, but I just don't like the idea that I'm being artificially limited (Apple decided that Moto shouldn't allow more than 100 songs). Also, since it's a digital device, any numbers/limits should be powers of two - so I should be allowed 128 songs :)
- Transfering songs via USB is painfully slow. It took nearly an hour to load up the first 100 songs (which, incidentally did not fill up my memory card - hint hint!). Hopefully it'll be faster in the future when I'm just adding/removing a few songs at a time (or maybe I'll just transfer directly to the memory card thing)
- There's only one "plug" on the phone - which is used for headphones, charging, and syncing; so you're sort of limited as to what things can be done simultaneously - when the phone is charging (either via USB to a PC, or the charger) for example, you can't plug the headset in to listen to music
With luck, when my new Prius arrives, it and the phone's bluetooth will talk to the car's so I can sync and drive..
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