What I don't want for christmas :-)

Cellular phone is one of the gadgets that is very popular with teens and even with the "older and wiser" :-) In my motherland named Philippines, cellphone is like the status symbol. Having the latest model means you are in. Most "in" People are changing their phone almost every 4 months . Not so much here in the USA. Elaborating why is unnecessary. But I will tell tidbits why. Some carriers here are using a cdma (no sim cards) technology. The other carriers that use gsm locked their units so that clients can't just buy a sim card and change carriers.

If in the Philippines you can receive calls and texts for free not in here. It does not matter if you are the sender or the receiver of either texts or calls it will cost you money. You have to pay your phone bill every month even if you have not use all of your minutes (or load) or you will lost service. It sounds like you have to buy load every month whether you will use it or not. It is compulsory if you wanted to have a cellphone service continuously. Some careers carry over your available minutes in the next month but some don't. Use it for a month or lost it. Tracking the minutes you use every now and then is a hassle in this rat race country. So sometimes you did not realize you used up all of your minutes and you keep on calling or texting and at the end of the month the big bill will surprise you. Because even if you run out of minutes they will still let you text or call.

So for me cellphone is not something I want to be new every year. However, I can't help to feel behind with the new technology when everybody does have this I-phone, blackberries, phone that you can use as mirror to put on some make-up and phones that does everything. I told my husband about my 'sentiments' I need to get a new phone. He argued with me. I said to myself "oh dear, the fun just begin" . He kinda told me that Christmas is approaching, it just gives me a hint that I won the first round. (smile)

In hindsight, my phone do have a nice camera that I can transfer to my computer real quick. I don't need to re size the kb and it still turn-out nice in my friendster as long it is captured with a nice model in it. (winking) I mean light. It does have mp3 music too, blue tooth enabled and many atsutsu. My husband and I do not have a two-year contract with any career. Why? Because he argued to the carrier's manager and fortunately the rule of thumb that says "customers are always right" applied to him that day when he made the transaction. The only 2 cons with my cellphone are, it is not the latest model and it is a little bulky but as what I've said it is working perfectly fine and it is as strong as makisig. I can bang it to someone's head if they are going to attack me, so hmmm? Do I really need to buy a new phone?

This is the boring part, every time somebody tells me YES, SURE, YOU CAN - it will makes me less interested in getting or wanting that something. It won't apply everyday though :-) So I would say I'll stick to my old phone now and I'll get a new one by the time every carrier will use gsm technology and will unlock their phones so that I can change sim anytime I want. This could take eternity so don't trust me on this.

For christmas, anniversary and birthday I want and need something but certainly NOT a new phone :-)