A Series of Tubes

So I finally got a new phone. I felt it was really time, my old one was almost years old, and it really showed. I just couldn’t stand having such a POS phone anymore, so I bought a MotoKrzr K1 in blue. It’s an awesome phone, worlds better than my previous Ericsson Z500a. It has a 2mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0, and a ton of other features. So far it’s a great phone, I just have a few issues with it. First of all, the buttons are slightly raised and rubberized, and thus leave smudges on the screen in the pattern of the keypads. This is just an aesthetics issue, and I’ve seen it on Razrs as well. It’s easily fixed by wiping down the screen, but it seems a shame to have such a flaw in the shiny beauty that is the Krzr. My second problem is that sometimes the button in the upper left-hand corner sticks, and presses twice rather than once. I usually don’t use this key anyway, since the middle directional button does the same action, but it’s a bit annoying. The last problem isn’t with the phone itself, but the cingular website. It is just impossible to use. Apart from constantly being logged out and stuff, and features that only function in IE (*shudder*), the interface is horrible, and the thought that they charge such exorbitant prices for phones and services and can’t be bothered to even make a decent website makes them seem even more evil.

But aside from those 3 points, I love my new phone. No name yet, but I’m flipping through The Odyssey to find a good nymph to name it after (peripherals are almost always nymphs in my mind).

And of course, the obligatory unboxing photos: