I have a new phone - A Nokia 3110 Classic

A few days ago, I posted about going to get a new phone. Well, now I did. I settled on the Nokia 3110 Classic, a completely unimaginative phone which does all sorts of completely normal things. I can't believe everybody has all these features these days, so many options, so many settings. It doesn't have much memory inbuilt, around 8.5MB or so, so I'll have to go buy one of those 1GB microSD cards. Here's how the phone looks:

The phone's got a camera. I wasn't particularly crazy about one and would have taken a similar phone without a camera if it cost less, but now that I have it, I'll concede that it's pretty useful. My digital camera, an old Nikon 995, is rather large and isn't easy to carry around so it's all cool. The phone has the usual GPRS, EDGE and Bluetooth and supposedly works just fine with Linux though I have yet to try using it as a dial-up modem. It has completely average JBenchmark scores, so nothing to get excited about. I have to admit I like the idea of making lots of Hello World Java MIDlets :) Fits neatly in the pocket, has nice big buttons for messaging, works just fine. I'm happy.

The place I bought it at is called The Mobile Store and it's here in Adyar, walking distance from my place. It was okay, quick service, they give you an envelope with a part to scratch for a prize. I got 100 bucks off my bill. Pretty funny considering that when I asked him about the student discount they'd advertised, he told me that the offer was over and that it was 2%. Same amount, funny.