It’s All About Christmas Shopping for Yourself
Earlier this month it was announced that the phone I was looking forward to, the Neo1973, would not support the 850 MHz band, all but eliminating it from consideration for being my next phone. This left the iPhone as being the sole remaining phone currently on the market that I’d be interested in getting, and I could even get it for $100 cheaper than retail ($300 vs. $400) through my dad’s company. I had pretty much made up my mind to get one in January, but then this morning my mom and I heard some phone-related commercial on the radio, and she asked if I wanted a new phone for Christmas. So, I will now be getting an iPhone for Christmas which solves not only my phone upgrade quandary but also my MP3 player upgrade question (my music library only hits 4 GB, half of what the iPhone can hold).
No longer being faced with the prospect of dropping $300 on a phone (or in the case of the Neo1973, $450), I decided that I would take some of my remaining internship money and basically go Christmas shopping for myself. On my list so far are a few games that I would have asked for (FF12: Revenant Wings and God of War 2 to name the two biggest) and a Nokia N800. My last post about the N800 spoke about a planned new model that would be coming out that I hoped would drop the price on the N800. Well, the N810 did come out (although not with WiMax in this version), and it did drop the N800′s price down to the $250 range. Granted, an N800 plus an iPhone may be overkill in that type of device form factor category, but one’s primary purpose is a phone/media player and the other is basically a handheld computer.
I also still have my Xbox 360 and PS3 purchases to make, the former of which will probably come first, but maybe not before Christmas like I had been thinking. By the end of next year, probably definitely on both. Right now it’s more about the games than anything else, and neither system has come out with that “must have” game for me.