So I just upgraded my Motorola RAZR for a newer Samsung SCH-R800 . So far it seems pretty good, with a large list of usable features. I just hope it lasts as long as my Razr did. I used it for three straight years, and aside from the occasional memory glitch, the phone performed phenomenally. I have to give credit to Motorola. However, since Motorola has no real offerings in the smart phone market, I decided to step up a little and get the R800. Aside from the fact that my fingers are horrendously too large for the screen, no problems to report. Yet.

I have been known to drop things from great heights, or leave things in my pockets and have them go through the washer and dryer. Or get stuck in trash cans. I purchased insurance on my phone, so hopefully I won’t have to use it. At $2 extra month, it seems like a safe bargain. Over 2 years, that’s $48 dollars, or roughly half of what I paid for the phone. Except if the price goes down in 6 months, which would mean over the life of my 2 year contract I am paying more on insurance than what it would cost to replace the phone outright. Alltel thought they had me on that one, didn’t they? So after 6 months, if I don’t break the phone, I’ll cancel the insurance (if I can). Don’t you just love how the phone carriers do business?