Life in the Nuthouse

So I’ve been with Verizon and have had my NV2 for about two years now. It was kind of one of those, I got dumped and stimmulated, so I’m going to go spend money, kind of things. So since it’s been about two years, I became eligible for an upgrade and renewal of my contract. I’d heard mixed reviews about both the android and the HTC Ozone with talks, so I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I didn’t fall into the I-phone craze either, and I know AT&T hates me, so I wasn’t sure how much better switching to them would be. So a coworker showed me her HtC Ozone. She was the original one who was singing the NV2′s praises back two years ago, so I still wasn’t sure. But I’ve been on a Verizon email list, and have heard others talk about it, so I figured I’d do it.
I finally ordered it a couple weeks ago, and after three tries on Fed-ex’s part to get it to me, and after the kindness of my next door neighbor, I got it last thursday. Getting things going was a bit hairy however. I didn’t have a license number, and you need that to get full use of the program. I was to discover two things. First, whoever put talks on the phone didn’t install it right, so it was doing all sorts of weird things. I tried installing it again, but the techie person I was talking to didn’t tell me that I needed the license for it in order to do that until after the fact. Second of all, even though you purchase the phone with talks, you still have to pay the $00 registration fee in order to get full use. You get talks on the phone, but you only pay for very limmitted use of it. If I’d have known that, I would gotten the free ozone, then installed talks on it and payed the $99 registration fee. Live and learn. I just wish they were a bit more informative about it so people could make a knowledgeable and well-informed decision about it. I certainly don’t mind paying for registration and all, but I probably could have saved a bit of money.
So once I got things going, after having to completely reformat the thing to reinstall talks correctly, which, may I say here, really isnt’ that hard to do, and getting the number, I got things working quite nicely. Soem people say this version of talks is slow, but I don’t see that. I love my phone. I can actually…oh my god…edit my texts. I can see who they’re from. I can edit my contacts, and I can play with ring tones. I haven’t been brave enough to do email, IM and internet on it yet, but i imagine that’ll come in time.
So like everything else, this late-bloomer has arrived into the 21st century.

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