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Oh, has it come to this?

Having lost my Sony Ericsson T610 (piece of crap), I am the new owner of a Samsung C225. It cost me $30 and it has perfect signal strength in my apartment, which is worth far more to me than a camera. It has no bluetooth, which I can deal with for a short time. This phone serves only to tide me over until I can afford a real geek phone with a real operating system.

But I'm discovering that in some ways, you get what you pay for. Every ringtone shipped in this phone's firmware is some poor MIDI rendition of a song. Or the sounds of space invaders landing on your lawn. Or a piano impacting an elephant.

It cost me $1.50 online from T-Mobile just now to download a ringtone to make my telephone sound like, well, a telephone!

Next, I expect they'll start charging me for parts of speech when I talk.

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