Gadgets

[theoriginalblurker]

I've been feeling the need to update some of my gadgetry.  Nothing phenomenally expensive in mind, just looking at my camera, mp3 player, and phone.  Right now I have the following:

Camera:  Canon S330 Digital Elph

I adore this camera.  The only thing I would like to improve here is a little more Mp, and addition of redeye reduction, which are included in all the new Elphs.  I really like the feel and size of the 330, and so I plan to stay with the Elph.  I'm looking at the 750, but I could be persuaded to go for another Elph model.

mp3:  iRiver iFP-700

I am very happy with this player, but I would like to increase my storage to 2GB.  The T-10 looks like a good match for me.

Phone:  Motorola E815

Meh.  I'm not unhappy with this phone.  Mostly I hate Verizon's user interface, and the way they lock their phones.  Unfortunately, they have great coverage and great sound, and I've had very good luck with their customer service, so I'm not looking for a switch.  I just want a cooler phone.  ;)  My two year contract is up, so I can get $100 off of my next phone with another 2 year contract.

Thoughts from the gadgeteers?

Comments

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

we pretty much hit the jackpot. To be fair, the coverage was pretty good. However, "we're going to totally screw up your internet service for month because we're too incompetent to set it up the way we told you we would and we can't fix it" was after we'd decided to not voluntarily do business with them again.

The phone decision was on the basis of them telling us the phone had an advertised feature, then having several in-store clerks tell us that we could get the feature if we waited two weeks for an update, and getting past the return-date. We didn't even want to load hand-made ringtones, we just wanted to sync via bluetooth. We weren't really a threat to their precious revenue stream since we weren't in it. The one time I tried to download a free ringtone from them, the process was so bad that I gave up.

We did have it worse than you: they learned by the time they sold the E815 to tell people that it wasn't a full (aka working) Bluetooth implementation. They didn't get sued over the E815 like they did the V710. Having been so thouroughly burned by them, there's not much they could do to get back my trust.

So, yeah, if you want to do anything outside of what they expect you to do, you will meet their incompetence, lies, and greed. If you want a phone to make calls, they're not bad, but in that case, they'll give you some el cheapo phone for free.

YMMV (many people's does). I'm glad we don't have to have them as our local phone provider anymore. Good riddance.