Ode To A Phone...

O, Samsung A707 "Sync" - you came into my life in the Fall of 2007 on a Saturday.  Chili-dog rather rudely chewed up your predecessor LG phone and I had to replace it quickly.  You were a good phone, a phone for all seasons.  You were the phone that I used to initiate text messaging with the lovely Renee Simms and the one I used to inform friends and family when we got engaged recently.  Alas, you began to show your age a few months ago when you suddenly refused to charge your battery.  If I'd not had an identical phone around to use as a charger (only its screen was broken) I'd have traded you in.

Over the weekend, I officially defected from AT&T Wireless.  I was running without a contract and with a need for a new phone.  Renee is a Verizon Wireless customer who started a new contract with a new phone last Fall.  My next move was obvious.  Making her pay an early-termination fee for her contract to move to AT&T might have resulted in an early-termination of our engagement!  So, I am now a Verizon customer on the family share plan with her and her mom.  And I am now the owner of an LG Ally Android smartphone.  Life is indeed good.