New phone is new...

Combining the extra pay I got from last month (due to more tandems than usual, and substituting for another route once or twice) and the check I got from the government, I had a fair bit of money to spread around this month.

So, I splurged a bit and bought myself a new cellphone, an LG Banter phone with a near-QWERTY keyboard.

It'll be quite a nice phone to use, it has already proved its worth as I was moving my contacts over from my old phone.

The one thing that'll take the most getting used to is unlocking the phone after a period of inactivity.
I have to press a key to wake it up, then press one of the soft-touch keys, then Okay before it'll let me do anything else.
(it's a slide phone, but acts like a bar phone when you're not using the slide-out keyboard)

So far, the only other problem I may have is games.

Not sure why, but my cell provider doesn't seem to properly support it.
I paid $7 for Bejeweled only to find out that it didn't work.
(it keeps giving me a ClassDefNotFound exception)

I need to call them to either fix it or get my $7 back.
After all, I paid money for a game, not a useless stack of ones and zeros...

I've managed to find third-party sites that have games for various definitions of free, but installing them is a bit of a problem.
(I may have to unlock the phone first...)