So I have very proudly only owned flip phones for my entire cellphone using life.  But alas, I lost my trusty Motorala krzr at NY Comic Con (which was kind of worth it since I found a dinosaur shirt there that says “Make me a sandwich!”,  a combination of my favorite things).  So after much debating and youtube video review researching,  I decided to get…the Droid 2.  My first ever smartphone.  I feel like I’ve betrayed the flip-phone kind, people I’ve identified with for so long.

So this whole smartphone thing is kind of insane.  How the heck do they make phones do all this stuff?  I’m pretty sure all the frequencies going in and out of these phones are gonna kill us one day.  I mean…we are the guinea pig generation for all this.  But I digress.

On the one hand – yes, it’s so awesome and I have all these new time-wasting games to play!  (Thank goodness, since I just finished my Top Chef game on my computer.)  But man it’s also kind of frustrating.  Like making simple calls is stupidly difficult.  I say stupid in the sense that I am the very stupid one for not being able to figure out these intuitive commands.  I feel like an old farty fogey.  I accidentally called my friend 3 times the other day in my attempt to edit her number to correct the area code.  So actually, I didn’t call her 3 times, I called some random stranger 3 times.  Clicking is dangerous!  Clicking a name is calling, it’s buying, it’s sending, eegads the lack of designated buttons + a very sensitive touch screen is a dangerous combination for my apparently non-nimble hands.  I called my sister by accident when trying to set up a quicklink on my home screen, and wound up leaving her this long voice message and then said “bye!” and tried to go back to what I was doing on my phone but then realized that I was still on the line, so 5 seconds later there’s me going “wait sorry I cant figure out how to end this call, gah I’m on this other screen, how do I make it end?  Where is it?  Bahhh. Oh there it—click.”   Like a truly technologically-impaired newbie.  I feel bad for making fun of my parents now.

It also makes me feel kind of lonely.  Like I have this new pretty phone and I have all these super cool ringtones (best name ever for a ringtone: Caffeinated Rattlesnake) and I want it to do stuff and interact with me and make noises and give me alerts!  But yeah I just don’t use my phone that often.  Which is fine!  I seriously don’t need to talk to/text 30 people every day.  In fact I’ve lived very happily that way.  But now this newfound anticipation is throwing me alllll out of whack.  Get it together Liz!

In summation, the Droid 2 is awesome.  But it makes me feel old and alone.

rant by Liz (wearing her sad clown rantpants)

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2 days after writing this I have had a bit of a turn around, I just had to reconceptualize the phone to not be a phone, but to be everything but a phone that happens to have phone capabilities.  Now it’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of.