My new phone

My new phone. This is a model by the way, I don't know her.
I finally got a new phone and I am so excited about it. Its a Samsung Haptic 2. It won't be available in North America for another 2 years (I have read a couple of articles saying that it will never be available there, but I am unsure).

I left with my co-teacher yesterday after school so she could help me buy a phone. In Taiwan you just point at the one you want, buy a pre-paid card, and go. Here though its not like that. We shopped around for a bit and finally landed in this place call Phone & Fun. It was bright (and I mean bright) green inside and outside. Basically a store that glows in the dark. We looked around and phone a nice black phone and I was already to buy it when they came out and said that they ran out. They did have silver and baby pink (I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit). I looked at the silver, I refused to look at the pink, but it wasn't very nice looking. We told them we could wait twenty minutes for the phone to be delivered from another store, that we would just go to the bookstore to buy my Korean class book (I did mention that I am taken classes now, right?).

On our way we saw another phone place and decided to stop in. Yes, the people at Phone and Fun could probably see us and I did feel guilt, so much so that I refuse to walk down that street for at least two months. We went in and all they had were samsung phones. I had been looking at them online for some time now and knew right then that I wanted a touchscreen. I did look around (mom raised me to shop), but I headed straight back to the Haptic 2. I basically did what Steph calls Julia Mode when Shopping: "I'll take it." No questions (I did ask if it had English and GPS), just give it to me right now. I signed the contract and I got a 200,000 won discount for signing up for two years. So in USD, I paid close to $450 and before you fall out of your chair Dad, its my birthday present to myself.

My co-teacher, who has never experienced the Julia Mode when Shopping, was quite surprised by my choice and my quick decision. I explained that I had been looking online and liked it. She told me that men usually buy this phone because they are so much more into electronics, haha. I told her to think of electronics as accessories and they become a lot more fun. I got a weird look from her.

The side
The screen and the camera button
The screen from a different view
The back and the camera

I did have some issues already with the phone. The people forgot to tell me that if I turn off my phone and then turn it back on, I need to enter a password. I had no idea what the password was. I tried to go back, but my phone went dead before I got there. So I had to go during lunch today to get them to fix it. It took 15 minutes and 3 people looking at it to fix it, lol. Only I can screw up technology in a short amount of time. Oh and another feature that I love is the SOS feature. If I am in trouble I can call the police, fire department, secret agent (no idea who that is), drug agent, coast guard, and nic (no idea either). Isn't that nice?

Here are some of the specs:

3.2-Inch LCD touch screen
e-dictionary
users will be able to create their own vibration mode
various screen designs with 50 icons.
improved the drag and drop
Bluetooth version 2
Customizable vibration mode
5 megapixel camera with flash: The camera features flash, enabling quality pictures in the dark, and handshake correction, close up shot, a timer and 12 scene modes.
Image stabilization
4GB/16GB internal memory
integrated mobile banking
updated TouchWiz UI, User Interface, sporting 50 widget applications (up from 15)
integrated media player
external memory card slot.
drag and drop
picture dragging
handwriting recognition
Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), which will allow users rapid access to all the TV shows they like, at any given moment.
Music Therapy feature that provides meditation music and videos
full internet browsing capabilities
geomagnetic sensor

You can also text and call people, haha. I am sure I will learn of more after I use it for more than a couple of minutes at a time.