Well, we're not the totally wired family. We don't have personal laptops (well, a little bit we do). We have no kindles or their ilk. We have a Nintendo DS.
But this week, we started using a new laptop - HP G62. Mostly not bad, except for the irritating quick-launch buttons along the left side, and the occasionally non-responsive touch pad area. But its new, and therefore has a strong hinge. Me like. And I'm getting used to Windows 7.
And today, we energised and activated three new phones, switching to a family plan with Verizon from the AT&T GoPhone. My daughter's is music-equipped, which means she won't have to get a new MP3 player to replace the one whose screen was damaged by an errant color guard bottle of shampoo. They're all camera equipped (though we did disconnect, immediately, the daughter's data plan. No web surfing, no emailing of nifty photos), and the menus work much more nicely than the old Nokias (about four-five years old, I think). The fonts are bigger, too (the daughteroid doesn't care, but us, you bet.) This is goodness.
Okaye annual cost is gonna be twice as much (easily) as the GoPhones. We can handle that. We just won't eat on Tuesdays.
So we're happy.
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