I’m In Love…
with my new Droid. 
I had preordered it from Best Buy a week ago, and picked it up yesterday. Turns out they didn’t sell them all out, so I looked liked a gotta-have-it-first geek, but whatevs.
and fyi, screw going to the verizon wireless stores… best buy was much quicker and very painless. I was up and running in like 10 minutes.
now onto the phone. Worst. Box. Ever. you’d think this thing would come in some steel box with red robot eyes and shit all over it. Instead, I got a crappy little 6″x3″ black box. not robots, nothin’.
Now, I knew that I wasn’t due for an upgrade discount yet (since I’ve changed blackberries twice this year), but i miscalculated what “full retail” meant.
try $599.99. oops.
Add in the car charger, screen protector, and hard shell, and you end up with a $697 bill. slight miscalculation from what I thought I was gonna lay out.
and when did screen protectors get so damned complicated? Didn’t you used to just peel the thing off, line it up, and stick it on? oh hell no for this one. It came in a package bigger than the phone. Included was a cloth, the invisibleSHIELD itself, a package containing a sponge SOAKED in solution, and a squeegee. what the hell? FU Mother Earth.
And here were the 9 (!!) step directions in order to put on this clear piece of plastic:
1) wash hands
2) wipe of device (with included cloth)
3) not really a step, but a pic of my phone with the little “shiny” symbols on it showing that it was now squeeky clean.
4) sponge fingers to wet them.
5) remove invisibleSHIELD from backing.
6) Sponge back side of SHIELD to wet.
7) Align SHIELD to device.
8) Wet front of invisibleSHIELD with sponge.
9) Squeegee out bubbles with the installation card.
Let dry for 12 to 24 hrs (i let it dry for more like 12 to 24 seconds).
of course during this process, the sponge solution was going everywhere… all in the phone, the ear speaker thingys. somehow i didn’t violate the warranty.
after all this, I can safely say that it is a blackberry killer. and rivals the iphone. As near as I can tell, you can surf the internet 100x faster ( lots of refreshing jasoncam). keyboard is cramped, but a huge step above touch screen typing like on the iphone (i sucked majorly at typing on my itouch).
apps are the selling point for iphone, and the droid “only” comes with 10,000. That is 9,997 more than I will ever need. I’ve downloaded solitaire, and the weather channel. i’m so hip.
* with work finally slowing a bit, tomorrow I’m taking a half day, and Leoni and I are having a Flash Forward marathon. I will give up football just this once lol (thank you droid sports scores app). doesn’t hurt that it’s a bangin’ show.
* tWitch is one week away! I had to move his flights all around yesterday. He was supposed to fly in from LA, but instead, he’s coming in from the set of a movie in Atlanta. Turns out he has the lead in Stomp The Yard 2, as some dude named Taz. Unfortunately he has to leave Saturday night instead of Sunday morning, so the girls are just gonna have to take him out Friday night. I’m sure they’ll manage. Lots of pics of me shamelessly posing with the soon-to-be movie star (who is also the lead in Step Up 3D, also due out next year) coming.
