Introducing..the Sony Ericsson T707!!Yes I am very excited about it. :P It's the first phone I've ever properly chosen for myself! All my other phones were hand-me-downs. :P
You might be wondering why I didn't choose a touch screen phone, which seems to be all the rage, or even an iPhone. Well, I don't like touch screen phones because they get so dirty (fingerprints everywhere! Eeee) and iPhones are out of my league (but my mom is getting one..sigh T_T).
Anddddd, I like flip phones. :D
When I told my dad I wanted this phone he was like, 'Why Sony Ericsson? Why not Nokia?' Well, the answer to that is simple too..Nokia doesn't make any decent flip phones!
Apparently the T707 was supposed to come out in like 5 colours, but in the end (so far) only 3 made the cut. Something Black, Something Pink (no those aren't their real names) and Lucid Blue.
As you can see, I got blue! xD
On a side note, Blogger is so bloody uncooperative when posting pictures. Every time I put in a new picture I get new spaces between my text, grrr.
I had so much trouble choosing this phone. First I had to decide between W508:
Which only comes in two colours, but apparently you can change the covers to whatever you like. Also, the specs are nearly identical to the T707, and it has Walkman (something to do with sound quality or whatever) and motion gaming (where you tilt the phone and the car you're driving in the game turns right or whatever).
However, to me, all the covers weren't interesting. And they weren't -shiny-. Shiny is a big criteria in stuff I like!
Plus look at the horrible keypad colours..
The blue and grey could have been acceptable..but white and LIME GREEN? Ewwww.
And the phone that I really liked last year, the W980, was now about the same price as this phone. (Last year it was something like 2k!) So I was considering it too.
I mean it was black and orange..:( But it was also Woei Lin's phone, and I didn't want to get the exact same one :P Besides, I compared it and it had a few less features.
Anyway, I ended up deciding on the T707, as I said! And now came to ordering it..
When I wanted to buy the phone, it wasn't out yet in Malaysia. The blue one, at least. All the retailers and shops that I went to only had either the pink or the black one. No blueeee. :( I didn't want to order it at first because I was afraid it wouldn't look as nice as on the website when it got here. But after thinking about it for a week or two, I finally decided to order it from the Sony Centre in 1U. (Fun fact: The first time I went there to see if they had the phone, it was RM999. Two weeks later, when I came back to do the actual ordering, it was RM865. Talk about a price drop!)
They promised me I'd have it by my birthday, which was 3 days away from the time that I placed my order.
Then on Monday, they called me and said I'd only get it by the end of this week, or next, because they'd just placed the order and it probably wouldn't be ready. So fine, I can accept that, it was a rush order.
Two days after that (one day after my birthday) they called me and said I'd have to wait AN ENTIRE MONTH because the warehouse had no stock!! I was like O.O?!?! The guy just said sorry and he would refund my deposit if it was urgent. Disappointed, I told him I'd think about it.
I was on the verge of looking for another phone, or giving in and getting the pink one (which I didn't really want) but luckily for them my Internet died and I couldn't get on to look for a new phone.
Then the next day..
"Hello?"
"Ah, Miss Chan Khai Ling? You ordered the blue T707 right?"
"Yes."
"It's arrived, you can come and pick it up now."
"O.O...ohh. Okay! I'll, uh, come and pick it up later. Thanks!"
Talk about giving me a heart attack.
Anyway, all's well that ends well, and now I have my phone! :D It's preeeeetty. Now I need to get a nice handphone accessory for it! I'm thinking..fluffy xD
Thanks Chun Yee, JJ, Tao, Matthew, Wei Yan and everyone else whom I pestered for opinions about which phone I should get. :P
