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New toy numero uno

While the iPhone was bought by half-million+ Americans and ogled by the rest of the world, I sat in my NY apartment holding in my grubby little hands, a small yellow package. Inside was a new phone. No, not a product of the Red Delicious variety, but instead, a white Sony Ericsson w200a. Yes, it’s an old model and there are tons of phones out there better than this one, but it’s fairly pretty, and most importantly, it was free. So while the world was salivating over neat interactions, pretty interfaces, and AT&T problems, I was just happy not to be carrying a bulky brick of a phone any longer.

Okay fine my old phone wasn’t actually that bad. It made and received calls perfectly fine (50% of the time). But it was a drag to carry around. And it took me half a year just to get used to how to do things (and Nokia is usually pretty good about their interfaces). So yay for new, small, and free phones.

New toy numero dos

(My very lame attempt at learning Spanish. One of possibly 2401029 things on my summer to-do list. Fine. More like my lifetime to-do list.)

My sister got me a white Nintendo DS for my birthday. Of all the Nintendo products, the DS is definitely my favourite. Yes, the Wii is cool, but until they fix the interactions so that it actually maps to what you’re doing more precisely, I won’t drool over it. The DS actually has all its interactions pretty near perfect, and is a significant enough change from its previous counterparts that it’s worth getting. After all, I did get one for both my mom and my sister as gifts. Actually, I think 50% of my extended family has one. Maybe it’s just a Chan family thing.

Okay, enough about new toys. Happy Silly American day!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 and is filed under design, life, technology.