Losing my Virgin-ity

Blog V of Thirty Days – Thirty Blogs series

No this is not about  my non-existent escapades. Sorry to have disappointed you. For the 2% of folks who are still interested, please read on.

Friends and relations are central in my life and a mobile phone comes handy in making a call to that ‘long lost’ friend. Of course, you can also let Facebook manage your re-connection frequency but I prefer to add that personal touch. Imagine my joy therefore to have got my first mobile phone back in 2005. No more excuses of not being at home, I could simply turn off my phone !

Being the BIG cheapskate that I am, my handset models have been very frugal till now, often at the receiving end of jokes of how a thief would return me a better phone while trying to steal my phone. My response till few months back was that I did not need a better phone. That viewpoint however got changed as I increasingly felt the need for staying connected to Internet during my extended travel periods for map, email and other info. The photographer in me would also scream now & then for a mobile camera. The music freak in me had enough of me listening to ringtones (I still do that though) and FM to satisfy my musical appetite to-go.

And that’s when I broke my smart phone virginity by ordering LG Rumor Touch. The blog title is a double play on the fact that I have Virgin Mobile as my carrier in USA. Initially I was thinking of iPhone and Droid but then the cheapskate in me kicked up and found a phone that could offer comparable services at dirt cheap prices. The extent of my naiveté in dealing with smart phones was visible when I was trying to locate the method to decrease the phone ringer volume in my system menu…only to realise that there were two volume control buttons right on the side of phone.