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JOY: My new cell phone.
written on Thursday, Jun. 12, 2003

Ah, it's a fine piece of blatant, gratuitous consumerism. And I love it!

I just upgraded my Nokia 6000 series phone (I think it's the 6150, specifically) to a sleek new Nokia 3595. And I gotta tell ya, it's so nifty.

Does it do anything more than the old phone? Well, yes and no. The primary function, calling people or receiving calls, hasn't changed much. But now I have voicemail and text messaging capabilities. w00t.

It is also disgustingly customizable.

I had bought this phone with the full intention of buying a new faceplate and possibly a keypad for it. However, I was pleasantly surprised when the phone showed up in my absolute favorite color -- slightly shiny dark blue -- with a snazzy silver keypad. The website had shown a different color.

One of the features is "wallpaper" for the main screen. I wasn't wild about any of the five pre-loaded pictures, so I went and downloaded a rubber duckie picture. I also downloaded an artsy orange cat picture.

For ringtones, I want Yatta! and Hava Nagila. My man had something to say about that: