Been surfin around lately for some addons for my phone and I think getting used to messaging on my new phone can be quite a pain at first and I guess it do take some time to get used to it. One alternative is to keep on practising on type gun speed typing game to get acustomised to the side key strip arrangement or get a wireless bluetooth portable keypad/board to do the job, which too means money being spent again. Anyway, check this baby out. Also a gyroscopic mouse do seem nice, even if this is like “the” technology many years back, it still have much of a wow factor to it (Link).

After hardly a week’s usage on the phone and damn, my screen is kinda stratched on one part, not very noticable in the dark but very annoying in the light, esp being spatted right on the lower left quarter of the screen (and now I know not to put my phone and charger in the same bag compartment). Think the warranty should be able to cover that, part of damage during normal usage right?, as numbly stated in the warranty card. But I guess that even if they were to replace the screen cover, it won’t be cheap either considering that it is actually part of the whole phone’s casing. Oh well, as the saying goes, “you won’t enjoy your new car till you put your first stratch on it.” 😎

Dropped down to hello shop, Orchard today. There was this very funny aura there which was rather “funny” initially, the “coming soon” sign is gone now, being replaced with a “features” backdrop in the store. but still a dummy phone on display, so I approached the salesgirl regarding the launch…

“cuse me, is the SX1 out yet?” (for the millionth time this year) 💡
“its out, shes says” 😉
“ahhh out?, I replied” 😮
*flips*

So it was a soft launch/opening they say, the phone is actually out today! and yea… got it, finally got the phone! (after a 5 month wait) but at a helfty $888 with a 2 yr contract with singtel, but with my mum who’s willing to fork out 50% of the cost, that helped loads. Now my SX1 is softly having a nice long 6hr initial charge before I can finally use it… whee! 😈

Hey Valentine’s day is on this saturday, and guess what? whats more than having work on sunday? screwy right? no Saturday night on valentine’s day… 😡 argh!!

On a more positive side… for the week, my newly anticipated phone, the Siemens SX1 would be out on this week itself 😛 , though I have not seen or heard any advertisments myself so far, the buzz and friends around me on my new phone is kinda scary though too, its like they know what I want!… brrr!

So far, there are quite a few people I know (bout 1-30) in Singapore who owns the phone, getting them mainly from those little handphone importer’s shops, but heck they are easily going at about $1200 few months back, coming down to $888 for a 2yr starhub plan and $750 for the M1 one respectivity. Nothing released on official mobile provider charges. I would most prob be getting it with a 2 yr extension on my current singtel classic plan. Hope singtel have the plan going below $700, then my pocket won’t hurt so much…