Gloating: My New LG Rumor, Samsung SyncMaster 2253LW
Well, last week’s been better than Christmas!
Marvin (a friend of my Dad’s from way back) bought me a Samsung SyncMaster2253LW LCD! It’s wonderful. 21.6″, 8000:1 contrast, 2ms response… I’m lovin’ it! Watched a movie and quite a few Star Trek TNG episodes on it already :). Now that I’ve got a big external screen to use, I broke out the old Black Friday $20 after rebate Logitech RF keyboard/mouse combo that I had in a storage box. No need to use an RF mouse (already have a bluetooth one that connects automatically that’s convenient for travel as well), but having the wireless keyboard and big display is very nice since it has media controls (volume, mute, etc.) and launch buttons.
Plus, since I’ve waited patiently for 2 years, Sprint gave me a $150 credit towards a new phone. I got the LG Rumor for about $50 after the credits and rebates. It has a slide-out qwerty pad that makes texting soooo much easier. I’d say the only failing of this phone is not having the bluetooth A2P profile for mp3 compressed stereo streaming audio. It supports mp3’s and a bevy of other formats that you can store on a microSD card in the phone and use it as an mp3 player. If it had that bluetooth profile, I probably would. Otherwise, may as well stick to my Creative Zen V Plus that I already have for wired listening.. But, I still love this phone! It’s pretty slim for having a slide out keyboard, and the interface is fairly nice. I love texting on it. It’s really just an excuse to use twitter that much more now that tapping out my status won’t take for $*(#ing ever using T9, which I was never that quick with.
So, after all this gifting/buying frenzy, I had to buy a microSD card for the phone, which I did at buy.com since they had a sale on a combo package with mini- and -SD and -USB adapters. I’m not sure what I’ll use it for – maybe just storing pictures of the people in my contacts book. And probably the “Red Alert” klaxon sound from Star Trek for my ring tone ;).
I also bought a 4gb Kingmax superstick so that I could make one of those shredded USB cord flash drives. I plan on putting a portable linux environment on it. Probably Puppylinux, since Marvin recommended it – apparently it was designed to be run off of a flash drive and to minimize writing to the flash in order to extend the drive’s useful life.
In other news, since I finally have an external monitor of some sort, I can finally work on getting my old 800Mhz desktop running again to maybe function as an internet-accessible fileserver for my external HDDs. I ordered a USB WiFi card for it a while back that came in the mail a few days ago. I assumed that it had an integrated graphics card, but upon further inspection, found out this was not the case. Ugh. @*()!ing ugh. Now I have to scrounge up a video card from somewhere to get this thing running. Maybe I can ask for one from my Dad – I’m sure he’s got a few spares somewhere.
Things are certainly looking up! My room’s finally coming together and I’ve got a well put together entertainment system with loads of media. Now, to find someone to share it with. :)
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