Because I'm Finally Ready
I'm 50 years old and have used my 17 year old daughter's hand-me-down phones for a few years (currently using a Samsung Alias, but the model before it was called the Alias, the SKU-BFD 1977, or whatever). They've always been good enough for me, thinking it's just a flippin' phone, for God's sake, so why all the fuss? Didn't care about the music it might hold, or the terrible photos it took, or the ridiculous excuse for a Verizon-browser on screen too small to read. Who cared, right? I had a laptop for all that! (Well, a hand-me-down laptop from my wife, who didn't like the way the it felt on her wrist when she used the track-pad, or some such vexing technical deficiency). Now my laptop has gone TU, and I scurry about my house trying to mooch computer time from my son's $1,200 gaming behemoth with the 21' HD monitor or my wife's tactile-correct Sony Viao.
You see, I don't need much anymore. I've had twenty years of using legacy systems, DOS, every iteration of Windows, the Mac's OS, and spending who knows how much on engine-sized desktops with transmission-sized monitors -all the computing-dogsh#t over the years is stuck to the bottom of my computing-shoes, and those shoes now stink.
These app-phones or smartphones or whatever you call them are, as Phil and others have said, hand-held computers! I love the spirit of this. I am ready to hold it all in my hand. Twenty years of sitting in uncomfortable chairs or having the hair singed from my legs are gone, over. I can truly whip it out whenever or where ever I want. And since Verizon won't let me upgrade until December (I'm not the main phone on the account - typical - and from what I ascertain the early upgrade is tied to the contract, not a specific number's upgrade status) I want to enter the 21st century now, with a Droid X!
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