03-06-2006, 02:44 AM
The cool USB scales, and two, FREE new Nokia 6102 cell phones! Only had to pay sales tax on the list price of the phones, about $34. I got to keep my existing Cingular Special Olympics rate plan, which is 700 anytime minutes, Roll-Over, and unlimited nights and weekends=$35 a month, plus $14.95 for the 2nd phone, plus taxes etc=$59 a month average bill for the past 4 years.
I haven't upgraded phones for more than 4 years, and have been without a contract with Cingular since 10/27/2005. Now I have another 2-year conract, but I'm really pleased to have been able to take advantage of RShack's weekend promotion on the Nokia 6102 phones. But I'm a little shell-shocked that I've done the deed...it's all over...no more agonizing about what phone, which plan, etc that I'm going to go with.
My old phones were Nokia 3595's, so the learning curve is going to be steep for this novice cell phone user. I honestly have NO IDEA how to do anything except answer, dial, use the SIM card function to find a number to call, and hang up at this point. Color me lost in space. I could have chosen a similar LG phone, but opted to stick with Nokia. Is this a good thing Microchip13?
Did I do the right thing? I sure hope so, because this is a done deal. Now to decide what to do with the old phones. Hmmm, are they worth selling on eBay? Should I give them to the local police so they can give them to handicapped/old folks for emergency phones? I'll have to figure that out sometime soon.
And the scale works great! I have it hooked up to my G5, and the software works perfect. I guess I have to edit the US Postal rates, but other than that it works as advertised. I got two scales because my wife wanted one for upstairs for her iMac, as she's always borrowing my electronic scale to weight this or that, and now she has one for herself.
To think that I was just about to go do my yardwork for the week when the Radio Shack manager telephoned, telling me that my scales have arrived. "On Sunday?" I asked him. He told me that one of his employees lives in Carpinteria, up by Santa Barbara, and that she had picked up my two scales (I ordered them Thursday) from the Ventura RS store on the way to work today--that's how they got them on Sunday.
I'm looking at those two phones charging right now, and suddenly I fell very confused. If I had to use one of them I'd have to look in the "Quick Start Guide" before I could do anything other than answer, and hang up. What an afternoon!
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I haven't upgraded phones for more than 4 years, and have been without a contract with Cingular since 10/27/2005. Now I have another 2-year conract, but I'm really pleased to have been able to take advantage of RShack's weekend promotion on the Nokia 6102 phones. But I'm a little shell-shocked that I've done the deed...it's all over...no more agonizing about what phone, which plan, etc that I'm going to go with.
My old phones were Nokia 3595's, so the learning curve is going to be steep for this novice cell phone user. I honestly have NO IDEA how to do anything except answer, dial, use the SIM card function to find a number to call, and hang up at this point. Color me lost in space. I could have chosen a similar LG phone, but opted to stick with Nokia. Is this a good thing Microchip13?
Did I do the right thing? I sure hope so, because this is a done deal. Now to decide what to do with the old phones. Hmmm, are they worth selling on eBay? Should I give them to the local police so they can give them to handicapped/old folks for emergency phones? I'll have to figure that out sometime soon.
And the scale works great! I have it hooked up to my G5, and the software works perfect. I guess I have to edit the US Postal rates, but other than that it works as advertised. I got two scales because my wife wanted one for upstairs for her iMac, as she's always borrowing my electronic scale to weight this or that, and now she has one for herself.
To think that I was just about to go do my yardwork for the week when the Radio Shack manager telephoned, telling me that my scales have arrived. "On Sunday?" I asked him. He told me that one of his employees lives in Carpinteria, up by Santa Barbara, and that she had picked up my two scales (I ordered them Thursday) from the Ventura RS store on the way to work today--that's how they got them on Sunday.
I'm looking at those two phones charging right now, and suddenly I fell very confused. If I had to use one of them I'd have to look in the "Quick Start Guide" before I could do anything other than answer, and hang up. What an afternoon!
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