Thrilled with My New Cell Phone, The Motorola V3 & Cingular Phone Plan

I am not a "got to have the newest techie toy on the market" type of person. This is why I was astounded by the fact that I am absolutely thrilled with my new cell phone and Cingular plan. Here is how it all started. My husband and I were nearing the end of our 2 year contract and we were keeping our phones alive with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation each day (not really, but that is what it felt like). I called Cingular to find out when the earliest was we could go in to get new phones. They told me April 1st which must have been a fool's day joke because I came in and they gave me a new date a little later. This AGAIN must have been a fool's day joke (on April fools) because they said the actual date I would need to come in to get both phones on my plan free was April 15th. I came in, and they offered up free phones with a deposit and a rebate. We bought LG400 Camera/video phones. We really wanted camera & video phones to take photos of our baby. Well, I found out that taking photos & videos of my baby were a lot of fun. I can e-mail them to whomever I like, and send them to my mother-in-laws cell phone. She lives 5 hours away and really misses having our baby girl nearby. The only problem we incurred with the LG400 flip phones was that within a week, I had taken over 20 video and who knows how many photos & my memory was already full. I again went into Cingular. I told them I needed more memory. They informed me that the phone came with a very small amount of memory and it was note upgradable. Not upgradable?! Well, I knew I needed a phone with upgradable video & memory. They showed me the V3 motorola phone. Not only does it have upgradable memory (up to 2GBs!) but it also has a better digital camera on it. In order to qualify for the rebate on the phone, I needed to sign up for the media max plan ($19.99 a month - the other phone required a $9.99 per month plan). I didn't mind, because I was texting a lot of video to my mother-in-law, e-mail box & husband so I knew that the extra $10 a month would pay off.

So we signed up for the new package and it also included unlimited internet. I had no idea how much I would like the unlimited internet package. (We don't have internet at home because we only use cell phones - no landline- and we can't afford $50 extra a month for wireless internet. There is only one provider in our area.) Now, I can browse the web anywhere I am at. I love it! My friend recently called me with a question I knew I could look up on the internet (she wanted to know the zip code of Mt. Morris). I told her I would look it up on the internet & call her back. When I told her I wasn't home she was surprised. I looked it up 7 called her back. Before I used to think up questions I wanted to look up on the internet and then by the time I had access, I forgot my question. Now, I can look it up anytime, anywhere. This relieves a lot of anxiety. I no longer worry about forgetting & my history on my phone informs me where I have been.
I can also look up personal and private questions that I might not want someone looking over my shoulder reading. There is a safe mode you can click on the browser so I don't have to worry about bad stuff like porn.

I can also add bookmarks. I simply downloaded a little Opera mini browser on my cell phone (for free) by searching for "Opera mini" on the browser that came with the phone. I also downloaded a little gmail application on my phone & I can check my gmail account wherever I go.

This phone and the abilities it has given me: looking up information anywhere, taking photo and video of my baby girl without her (turning on - like smiling or acting silly because she knows she is being recorded), sending my mother-in-law photos and video of her grandchild so she can watch her grow and much, much more, have been a positive addition to my life. As of this moment, I love you Cingular & Motorola. Of Course, to my husband, "I love you MORE!"