A Drastic Exchange

This morning my Samsung Galaxy S phone died on me. With a full battery, it wouldn't boot up. Not normally, not in recovery mode, not in safe mode, not in seek'n'destroy mode. Not with external power, not without cards in it. So I took it to the store to have it serviced.

And I bought a Nokia 5030 bar of soap instead.


As opposed to the Galaxy S, my new phone does NOT have:

• 3G
• camera
  
• any data connectivity
• not even USB
• or Bluetooth
• or infrared
• touchscreen
• a big display
• GPS receiver
• MP3 player
• video player of any format
• Android
• Java
• anything that supports installing anything
• MMS
• email
  
• internet browser
• WAP
• dedicated support forums
• SD card or support thereof
• any internal storage to speak of
  
• Swype
• accelerometers
• magnetic compass

But it DOES have:

• metal
• rubber
• 20 days stand-by time (claimed, but even half that would be great!)
• an internal radio antennae
• a flashlight,

all these being things I've sorely needed in the past (well maybe not the radio ant in particular).

In any case, I can think of far more instances when I needed longer battery times or a flashlight, than Google Maps on my mobile.

Curious to see how long I can hold out? Well, so am I. Trial 1: type in a couple of hundreds of contacts :D

(And also, N5030 costs less than a tenth the price of Galaxy S.)