Diggin’ my mobile phone

I’m having such a great time with my phone since Sabs talked me into buying a memory card for it. I went from having 64MB storage, filled with things like Opera Mobile (v10 beta is great, BTW), Twikini (fantastic Twitter app, though I wish it had some kind of photo/flickr support) and KeePass…

… which left me with about 900K free space. I’d take one photo and my phone would start crying. I picked up the Micro SD card, stuffed it in there, then uninstalled every app before reinstalling it “to the Storage Card.” I don’t know whether Windows Mobile uses “program storage” as a kind of swap or what, perhaps I’m imagining it, but goddamn if my phone doesn’t seem oodles faster to do shit.

When I got home that night, I filled it full of MP3s. I also picked up a set of earphones for it (easier said than done, the hole being 2.5mm and all) and now I can rock out – I hardly listen to the MP3s though, since Spike got me using Pandora.

It’s great, I’ve killed off like three devices that I used to carry around all over. The camera on my phone is awful, but it’s good enough if all you want to do is be like “hurr, look at this funny product” or whatever – so I’m no longer carrying around a hideously-huge-and-expensive, shoulda-paid-forty-dollars-more-and-gotten-an-SLR Sony DSC-H3. The Opera Mobile browser is good enough that I can do most of my work from the phone if I’m out and get a support ticket, and I have an SSH client as well – so I’m not lugging around an outdated, heavy, please-mug-me-youd-be-doing-me-a-favor Sony VAIO laptop.

I got rid of my PSP, trading it for this phone, which is fine because I can stack this thing up with 4GB of MP3s and Video. Considering I can count on one hand the number of times I used my PSP since we moved out here, I don’t regret it at all. :D

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