My LG VX8350 is turning into another minimum luxury item I can't do without. To my surprise, I'm really enjoying its all-around ability as phone, camera, GPS navigator, watch, sudoku, and alarm clock (additional features include calendar, music, and texting).
Got some third party USB software where I wandered into a keyboard that let me compose my own custom phone ring. Serendipity everywhere!
True, standalone devices are more powerful, but such jazzy phones are amazing compromises that take up less space than a wallet.
Finding a USB cable for phone to computer is fairly easy for music but more difficult for pictures. I'm surprised many USB cables for cell phones are the slow USB 1.1 instead of 2.0.
The pics aren't much anyway with no flash and only 1.3 megapixels, but they're fun to store on the extended memory card I got for the phone.
With extra accessories like bluetooth, memory card, USB cable and software, it's easy to blow another $100 and more on a "free" phone upgrade. Upping the ante every two years and flat fee package service keeps the phone companies happy campers.
