New Phone: Samsung A-900 Sprint

One of the "benefits" of marriage is merging cell plans and taking advantage of the Family Plan. I have a 1000 minute plan and Christy the same, but when I looked at my total usage for the past three months, it was a staggering 200 minute average. That has decreased significantly since my single days. I remember sweating a few months towards the last 5 days of the billing cycle. Now, it is a no brainer. Christy uses Cingular (ATT) and I have been with Sprint for over seven years so we decided to stay with them. I think they both offer reliable cell networks, and a wide choice of phones. Christy, whose current phone is a very antiquated-looking boxy device that has no fun features like, color screen, or camera, does not like fancy phones and states "just get me the bare bones phone, I don't need the flashy." Well, I thought for her blog she would like to have a camera to snap spontaneous pics that may make good topics so we got her a newer version of my present phone. I opted for the new Samsung A-900. It is, as a new phone always is, confusing. There is a music player built in with controls on the top of the phone. The buttons are not as intuitive as my current, but I think over time it will be a much better fit for me. The 1.3 Megapixel camera takes crisper pictures than my last Canon digital camera. I was hoping to hold out for Apple's anticipated launch later this year or mid-2007 of an iPod slash phone slash camera, which you can see what people think they will look like, here. The A900 will do for now. I am going to try the music feature today and will give a report this week. For now, my hope is that once Christy realizes the potential her phone has, that she is not annoying people on the street taking their picture.