Gadgets

As a computer geek I always had a weak point of gadgets. As someone who easily gets adicted to anything I can easily get adicted to collecting gadgets. So to avoid reaching the point of spending money I don't have on gadgets, I more often than not opt not to buy myself a gadget, no matter how much I wanted it. I´ve missed a lot of electronical (r)evolutions this way, which to an ubber geek is a painful thing: Being an early adopter of anything and to be at the forefront of technology is a big ego booster. This changed last Tuesday: My Israeli cell phone decided that he had enough and last Monday it stopped working. When I got here I received a simplest phone that is given for free (I could have shelled some personal money to get a better one but back then all I had were question marks about my financial capabilities) when subscribing to plan. More often than not I wanted to replace the phone, but being very critical of my options I postponed the decision. Last week Ynet website published a review of a Samsung slider phone. I liked it and decided to check what Nokia has to offer in the slider arena (I like Nokia phones more than other companies) and found what I was looking for (well google found it for me). A quick call to a friend of a friend to check whether he has it instock and we (The mutual friend and me) on route to buy a new phone. I didn't drill down all the aspects of the phone I was about to buy. I didn't look at the feature list of the phone. I simply went out and bought it. Once back in the office I started playing with the phone and the question: Deos it make coffee (which is usually refered to computers that can do almost everything) works for the phone I bought. Here is a short list: It can record and play videos, MP3 player, FM radio tuner. Video Calls (3G) has a mini SD flash card (that was upgraded to a 2GB card) and many more features. Unfortunately I will still have to make the coffee myself. Today I sat and started reading reviews written for this model. As it turns out I bought one of the cutting edge models on the market. That last sentence kind of stuns me. I gave in to my gadget craving and survived :-)


Hasta manaña