Got a new cellphone from the lovely wife, a Z525, very sexy. Camera, Video, flipphone, bluetooth, color display and all that. I love it!

'cept for the interface. Things have changed since my clunky Nokia model (6500 something? Can't remember and it's lost now). Before it was phone with a some other features tacked on, like an address book and alarms and what. Now a cell phone is device to sell you more stuff that happens to also be a phone. Seriously, the menu has an item called Cingular Mall. I can buy ringtones, games, applications, and lord knows what else, easily doubling the phone bill.

Still the organizer is nice and the way it keeps track of your appointments is useful. There's a ton of features on it that I'll probably never use, but the camera and video is awesome and I'm already maxing out my media package. Looks like it's time to get that blue-tooth card so I can download video as opposed to emailing to myself.

Sweet Christmas!