3G Power Value 100: $25.68/mth for 500 SMS/MMS and 100 mins talk time
MaxMobile Lite: No monthly fees but charges 1.07cents/kB, ie $10.70/MB, capped at $94.16
Pay-as-you-Roam: no monthly fees but charges 20% above regular rates for internet usage overseas
Caller ID Display: $5.35/mth to see who's calling me
student benefits: unlimited SMS/MMS for 2 years which is the entire duration of the contract
Total monthly bill: $31.03
Obviously I don't plan to use the 3G capabilities of the phone.
Spent $98 on the phone but it's got the best camera below $300 at 12MP. That's the only thing I cared about.
But the phone is too smooth. Sleek, but impractically smooth. I predict it will slip off my hands a lot if I don't add something to it.
So I shopped a bit at DealExtreme. It's one of the three shops I'm aware of based in China that deal in electronics and related accessories. The other two are Focalprice and DHgate.
DealExtreme doesn't deal in phones and computers but Focalprice does. However I've heard better things about the former then the latter.
Both of them offer free delivery worldwide, with certain conditions. For DE, they currently stopped EMS (Express Mail Service aka courier) for orders below US$30 and such orders have to pay US$0.01 for (slower) air mail. Not a huge difference really, lol.
Spent US$18.30 on 2 casings (1 hard 1 soft I think), 2 screen protectors, 2 styli and a HDMI-to-3-coloured-VGA cable because our TV doesn't have a HDMI socket. As for the double orders, I wanted to pick the cheapest plus the next cheapest for all 3 items as backups.
If the cheapest work fine, I'll stick with them next time I have to order again. If not, I advance to the next cheapest. Not to mention I'll buy at least 3 for the cheaper bulk rates.
Also asked my bro if he wanted these but he said no, and then asked what phone I bought.
When I told him, he said, "Such an old model?!"
Right away I thought: Dude, if not for work I'd not even have spend an extra dime beyond the contract itself.
But somehow I kept my mouth shut.
His phone was free, but only because my mum's contract with M1 involves a humongous monthly fee (due to work too) and this allowed her to choose from a huge selection of new models for free when she recontracts with them.
She's currently using his old phone.
It's nothing bad really. My mum may be playing MMORPGs but she's not exactly into new handphones. Even the touch screen on his old phone is giving her plenty of headaches.
It would be a waste to let her pick a phone when she recontracts.
So of course his way of thinking is different.
Anyways, why would I want a new and more expensive model?? I don't play games a lot on it. When I take public transport I play Solitaire and Minesweeper if at all.
Currently I can complete the highest difficulty in Minesweeper in under 10mins. Of course, Minesweeper has a lot to do with luck once the logical ones have been cleared, so I can't complete it 90% of the time.
According to DealExtreme's website, they will be delivered in 7-14 days. I don't think they'll be able to squeeze it into my mailbox, so I'll have to wait for the "Attempted Delivery" card and get it from the post office.
And if you're planning to shop at those websites, keep in mind the warranties are not as great as they make it out to be and their quality control can be horrible. Best to stick with the small gadgets and accessories and avoid the tablets and stuff.
So apparently, Indian porn goes by the terms "desi" and "masala". Porn isn't even legal in India yet it has its own names online. I may not be completely right, but I'm pretty sure I'm close about those two.
Spent a large part of the day figuring out my phone and customizing it.
It keeps crashing despite the firmware updates.
Also accidentally downloaded some data from the 3G connection. Apparently a lot of the apps do it automatically.
Well, they've all been deactivated now.
Also, I pulled the 3G connection out of the Internet category and made my phone connect only through the access points in this category, which only contains my home's WiFi network.
But I'll most likely still have to pay maybe a dollar or 5 depending on how quickly I stopped the connections back then.
I'm seriously considering visiting their service centre at VivoCity.
The problem is mainly in the Ovi Store (Nokia's handphone apps store). Keeps crashing all the time. It was a pain just to get the free Swype programme that lets me type by dragging my fingertip over the letters on the onscreen keyboard.
Wow that Hokkaido Sushi Restaurant I visited the other day is offering a new discount again.
Not filling at all, so no thanks. The other items are too expensive to be ordered ala carte.
They're probably not doing too well if they're having so many promotions. I recall seeing more promotions on the sake in the menu.
We're doing so well in Die2Nite but the town that the few members from my previous meta-coalition joined is now on its way to becoming the best. From the stats they're getting almost 20 DOs per day since Day 1, which is incredible. In contrast, we've been only getting 10 and one sixth (10.161616...) DOs per day.
For them, it's actually possible that they may hit Day 40 if they can find enough water outside. On our side, water is less of a problem because we have a water treatment plant within 10 tiles, so the zombies are the main issue.
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