Rob lost his phone today. Not just lost as in misplaced. He was leaving work to go get lunch, and I guess when he was getting in his car, he started to feel nauseous, so he put his phone on the roof of the car, puked a bit, and then got in his car and drove off. You can guess what happened to the phone. He looked around the parking lot and the roads he drove on, but no phone. So off to the Verizon store we went after work. We're on a family plan, so instead of getting free phones every two years, we only get an upgrade at the 2-year contact price every two years. Well, he doesn't get his upgrade until August 30. But I knew that my upgrade had rolled around, so I was nice enough to give him my upgrade eligibility, and wait until August 30 for my upgrade. Which is fine with me, I like my current phone (Razr) and I'm still debating if I want to upgrade to a regular cell phone, or a Blackberry or PDA (meaning I would get reimbursed $70/month through my company if I had my own smartphone, instead of paying $8/pay period to use their Blackberry, since I occasionally travel and what not and they want me to have email access but "due to IRS regulations" have to charge me $8/pay period to do so. Even though I only use it to check work email and appointments.)

Anyway, I did get to check out the new LG Dare, which is similar to the iPhone. It was pretty nifty. The LG Voyager also looks fancy. I was confused as to why all these non-PDA phones had qwerty keyboards, I assumed they all had email capabilities, when really they just have web browsers, and it seems the qwerty keyboard is for "dumb ass kids like [friend's name] who send 50 text messages an hour." (My words in the car to Rob.) But then why would I need one of those phones if I wouldn't be getting it to replace the Blackberry? (I don't think my company would reimburse me for a cell phone that just had web and not data capabilities.) I guess I would be as bad as the kids.


* The subject lines refers to the fact that I have been in Rob's situation before - when I dropped my cell phone in the toilet three years ago, and had to get a new one.