My new phone

A couple months ago, I wrote about trying to find a new cell phone. While the urgency did wear off, I never did stop looking. Last week, I was flipping through the massive Cingular insert in Maximum PC and saw it there…. It had everything I was looking for. It’s the Nokia N-Gage. Heh… nooooo. It’s the Sony-Ericsson z520a. It’s not quite as geeky fun as the Nokia 6682 would have been with it’s Symbian OS and EDGE data connectivity, but the z520a is at least currently available. (The Cingular 6682 had some stability issues and was temporarily yanked until — I’ve read — mid-December.) The extra bonus is that the z520a is about 1/3 the cost of the 6682.