My Handy Little Friend

I have resisted the urge to buy into the growing “smart phone” trend. I have been very hard on the phones that I have had in the past. I treat them like the tool that they are. I have always just bought the bare bones basic phone that will make calls and send texts. My wonderful wife has been the proud owner of an I phone for years and before that she had a blackberry, she unwittingly put some ideas in my head to make me investigate a durable smartphone. This was a huge change in the way I thought after all, some of my phones didn’t have cameras or any of the “fluff” features as I called them.  I used to make excuses to talk myself out of having a smartphone like “I don’t need to be connected to everything all the time,” or “why would anyone need to have the internet on their phone” .  Then I found that Casio had put out the only military grade smart phone. I researched it for months. It was water proof, dustproof and they brag that it can fall off a two story building. I don’t think that I will ever these features but I think it’s a good start to put my mind at ease. So after months of research and evaluation I decided to pick up the Casio G’zone commando.

OH MY HECK! There are no more reasons for all my excuses. I don’t have any more weight to any of my excuses. I don’t have to be around a computer to send an email, I can do it right from my phone. I look up simple answers to questions all day using the internet and my phones calendar connects with the computer I have at home and so it keeps me where I need to be and up to date with the deadlines of school and work.  I can look up movie times with the touch of a button and I can plan a road trip in about two minutes using the GPS feature. The possibilities are basically endless. I was helping my friend with some construction on his house when we realized that the level had just driven off in our friend’s car as he went to the hardware store to get parts. So not missing a beat in about thirty seconds I had downloaded a level app on the shone and we were able to keep on with the project instead of sitting and waiting for our friend to return. All things considered I can’t imagine that I lasted as long as I did without such a handy little friend.