Stupid Fins.
So I sold my Sidekick. Which would be fucked up if I were a superhero and actually had a human being which I sold so someone else. Unfortunately I’m not a superhero… unless super-resiliency to wearing dirty laundry is a super power. Which in that case, I’d be, uh… wait… focus Rafferty.
No, fortunately, we’re just talking about cellphones. Specifically the T-Mobile Sidekick II cellphone-contraption-trapper-keeper device. I got mine the day it was available back in 2003. 2003? Sweet christ, that can’t be right. 2004. Anyway, I got it on launch day, and just now I sold it to a guy on the street. Normally, selling stuff to a guy on the street would be a sign of a problem. Drugs problems, gambling problems, landlord problems, pimp problems… something. Not me though, not really. Don’t get me wrong, I have problems, but my problems are techno-problems. The Sidekick 3 has been out for almost four weeks now, and I still don’t have it. That’s a problem.
Problem is, I didn’t have a buyer for Sidekick II until a few hours ago. I was asking $150 for it on craigslist, which I thought was a fair price, but capitalism being what it is, the market was dictating $150 for a new Sidekick II. And as I have already mentioned, a new SKII I have not. So $125 was the going price of my Sidekick II. So sad.
Anyway, there will clearly be some haggling and dickering (dickering) with T-Mobile tomorrow in order to make up for that $25 dollars that I feel is owed to me. In the meantime however…
So what’s one to do when you sell you cell before buying a new one? Inherit one of the billion Nokias that are out there, of course. In my case, I inherited a Nokia 3595 from my roommate Graham.
The 3595 is my first regular, non-smart cellphone. (Actually, I don’t know if I’m allowed to call it “my cellphone” since I’ll probably be handing it back to Graham less than 24 hours after he handed it to me.) Regardless, the Nokia bond is strong, and over the past few hours we’ve become quite close. It’s very sweet.
That being said… how do you people live like this? No QWERTY keyboard, no POP3 client, a sad AIM client, an even sadder web browser… the list goes on. I feel like I’m on vacation in Maine, with all of the technology that’s been relegated to the summer house. It’s not totally archaic, but it’s just a little less than you’re used to.
What’s surprising though, is that there are features this little Nokia has that the big bars of soup known as Sidekicks are still lacking. Yes, despite being $350 and three years further along in the technological revolution, things like voice dialing and MMS support are foreign concepts to the SK3. Also, little things, like a battery that lasts more than 36 hours and games to play besides Asteroids (Backgammon 4life!).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m psyched for the Sidekick 3, but somehow, even though I know this is the free phone Graham got when he signed on with T-Mobile, the grass is always… well, not greener on the other side, but you at least see some of the virtues of that grass. Even though it’s mostly brown.
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