Over the past few months I’ve accumulated (and lost) a few new gadgets:

Gadget the first: A Motorola RAZR V3 Phone.  This guy replaced my old phone, a V600, which I really liked but the V600 decided he didn’t like hearing me talk any more so he started dropping every call I made.  Deciding that I wanted to actually talk to people with my phone I went over to my local T-Mobile store to see if there was a possibility of a replacement phone (since this one was rather new).  Wouldn’t you know it?  My warranty just expired so there was nothing that T-Mobile could do except sell me a new phone.  (The lady behind the counter (now known as Counter Lady) was kind enough to tell me a good friend of hers happens to have a side business “fixing” phones and she would be happy to refer me to her friend.  Thanks, but I would rather not get ripped off twice for the same transaction)  Since I needed to have a phone (my cell being my only phone), I had to walk out with a working phone.  After taking a quick glance around the room, I decided that the RAZR should suit my needs just fine.  As Counter Lady rang up my new purchase, I proceeded to save the 5 or 6 contacts that were stored on my phone to my SIM card.  Counter Lady sees me doing this one by one and decides that I should do it in a batch.  Seems logical enough, so I hand my phone over to her and she clicks a few keys and hands it back.  As I peruse what should be a list of over a hundred contacts, I find a list of the 5 that were still stored on my phone.  Counter Lady *overwrote* my SIM card, instead of appending the contacts to them.  After a bit of screaming and yelling, and me realizing that the data was gone, gone, gone I grabbed my new RAZR and headed out.  T-Mobile now owns my soul for 2 more years and has wiped out the only contact information I had for a lot of people.  I believe that requires a sarcastic yell. “Yay!”

Gadget B: The must have gadget of the century, an iPod.  Nano 1 GB to be exact.  I got to enjoy the wonderful bliss of owning an iPod for 1 1/2 whole months before it got swiped of my desk at work. :(  In a rather idiotic display of cunning and intelligence, at the last minute I decided to not take my iPod with me to the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge.  Thinking that since I have never ran with the iPod it would be stupid to try to when I’m doing my first race ever.  Casually I tossed it on my desk, and it was never seen again.  As much fun as the iPod was, he will probably be replaced by a device that supports PlaysForSure so I can upgrade my Rhapsody account to RhapsodyToGo and get 2 million songs to go.  (I dig the subscription music model.)

Gadget number 3: T-Mobile MDA (aka HTC Wizard).  Work gave me this guy to replace my BlackBerry.  Since the first day I saw the HTC Wizard I wanted one.  Craved it.  I HAD TO HAVE IT.  Which is why, with great disappointment, I say I miss my BlackBerry.  The MDA has been a huge disappointment for me.  It all comes down to what you want a device to do and what the device was made to do.  I want/need something that is great at email.  The BlackBerry was that.  The MDA on the other hand isn’t.  The MDA is great at being a phone, calendar and managing contacts.  Email comes second on the MDA.  Simple as that.

Gadget IV: This guy I’ve ordered but he hasn’t arrived yet. Linkstation 250 GB Network Storage Center. Aww yeah.  My laptop, MojoDojo, has been running out of hard-drive space for sometime and I didn’t want to buy a really expensive laptop drive and deal with migrating tons of stuff over to it.  An external hard-drive was out of the question because I wanted the laptop to be mobile and not tethered to a hard-drive by a USB cable.  250 GB that can be mounted over the network was just the solution I needed. (I think, I have yet to try this out in the real world.)