TheGame21x Live

For the past three and a half years, I’ve been using the same phone…a phone that was about two years past its prime when I got it. A phone that has been a constant annoyance to me. A phone that I hated the day it was forced upon me by my father three and a half years ago instead of allowing me to pay him the necessary amount for a phone that I really wanted (which, at the time. was the LG EnV) and have hated ever since.

What was this phone, you ask? Well, I’ll show you.

Yep, the Motorola RAZR V3m from Verizon. This is a phone that saw its first release in 2005, a phone that was, at the time, ahead of its time. Its feature set, sleek profile and high-class fashionista good looks propelled it to the top of many people’s most wanted lists and its initial sales reflected its massive mainstream appeal. Time passed however, and better, even more feature packed phones hit the market. In early 2007, when it was time for me to upgrade, the RAZR was passé and I was dead set on getting something with a QWERTY keyboard. I really didn’t care what I got, as long as it had one. Obviously, the RAZR does not have a keyboard so I did not want it. I asked my father about letting me pay him for the phone I wanted but, as usual, he was dodgy, never giving me a straight answer until one day when…surprise! A package arrived from FedEx and he pulled out a pair of RAZRs (one for myself and one for my mother) and shoved one of them into my hands. Long story short…I never liked this phone. Not one bit.

Fast forward to 2010 and now, I am in possession of a new phone. Something vastly superior to my old RAZR and a phone that I am very pleased with now and I imagine that I’ll continue to be pleased with as time goes on. An LG EnV Touch.

Isn’t she beautiful? :) The external screen is a 3 inch touchscreen of the resistive variety. Now, I’m not too thrilled about working with a resistive touchscreen again after using the wonderfully accurate capacitive touchscreen on my iPod Touch and using it is going to take some getting used to but so far, my experience with it has been positive. Besides, it makes up for its failings in being bright, vibrant and packing an impressive 800 x 400 resolution. Opening the phone up reveals another 3 inch LCD screen that lacks touch sensitivity. The screen does pack that impressive 800 x 400 resolution, however which makes it just as vibrant and colorful, if not more so than the external screen. Also inside is a full QWERTY keyboard, the likes of which I’ve wanted for years, as I stated earlier.

In terms of features, this phone is as feature packed as one can expect a dumbphone (that’s not an insult to those who aren’t aware) to be and I’m definitely pleased with the wealth of features available to me. Aside from my keyboard requirement, I was also in the market for a phone with a decent camera. Well, this phone’s 3.2 Megapixel shooter is no slouch in that department. It certainly won’t replace my Z100fd as my workhorse camera but for quick snaps of things I come across when I don’t have my camera with me, this will definitely suffice.

I took some photos with it during a trip to a local vegetable market so you can see for yourself how they turned out.

Now, I contemplated getting a smartphone such as the Motorola Droid X or HTC Droid Incredible (leaning toward the Droid X) but, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I really don’t have a use for a smartphone. Nearly everything I could see myself doing with a Droid I could pretty much already do with my iPod Touch, aside from making phone calls, of course. With that in mind, I couldn’t justify paying $30 a month for the data plan required with the purchase of any smartphone through Verizon.

So, I’m very pleased with my purchase and glad I can finally bid my RAZR adieu. I’ve added a new album dedicated to photos of my phone (yes, I went a little crazy…) on my personal photo gallery. Check it out! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to play with my new toy a bit more.

Er…I mean conduct important business on it…>_>