New Cell Phones!

I feel like a little kid who just got a new toy. Well, I guess cell phones today are toys for grown-ups.

Jeff and I have been on two separate phone plans for the past few months, and we decided it was time to consolidate. We shopped around, and Sprint ended up giving us the best deal. Sorry to those of you that are still with Verizon that are sad they can no longer call Jeff for free. FYI: both of our phone numbers have stayed the same.

The phones that we got are Muziq by LG. They have been discontinued, but we got two of the last phones in stock. We actually had to go to two different Radio Shacks, because each store only had one left.

One of our favorite things about our new phone is all of the options it has for recording and playing music. It has a memory card slot, so you can download music onto your phone. You can then transmit the music from your phone to a radio if you want to hear it on your stereo.

It also has three options for composing music. You can hum a song and it will convert it into a score, push numbers on your phone that correspond to notes, or put a melody directly into a score. Once you have composed a song, you can play around with several features such as changing the style (which adds a pre-recorded background, such as pop, rock, or jazz), instrument (with choices from piano to xylophone to trumpet), and tempo.

Jeff and I have spent the past two days writing songs on our phone. We've done some of Jeff's songs as well as Christmas carols. My ringer is currently set on "Angel's We Have Heard On High." I know - we have too much time on our hands. But hey - it was a 4-day weekend (which we much enjoyed).

And speaking of ring tones, we also discovered that you can set a video that you've recorded on your phone as a ringer. We've joked around that Jeff should make a video on my phone (and vice versa) that goes something like this "Christine, it's your husband, Jeff. Pick up the phone, honey. Come on, pick up the phone. I need to talk to you. (etc)" So not only would I hear his voice when he called me, but I'd also see the video playing on the outer screen on my phone. Cool, huh?

You can do the same thing with a voice memo that you record on the phone. Jeff set his text message alert so that it's him saying over and over "Text message, text message." It's kinda funny.

Well, I hope you haven't been too bored with our excitement over our new phones. And I'm sure there are some of you out there who have really high-tech phones and don't think our features are much to brag about, but I don't care - we like them.

Horray for new toys!