Due to the generosity of Singnet, I found myself with $100 dollars worth of Singtel vouchers. And because my previous plan was up, my inner shopaholic immediately kicked into hyper mode. It marched me and my family into Singtel Shop, and made me hand my old Nokia 6610 and my mom's Nokia 3315 over in exchange for a Nokia 6260 and a Nokia 6020. With our trade-ins and "subsidy", the bill was actually pretty comfortable (a bit over $200). The waiting part of the trade was horrible. On top of slow service, the Tampines Mall Singtel Shop stupidly has no seating area, so that despite being 3rd in the number queue, we had to stand a whopping 35 minutes before we got attended to. They're lucky that my inner shopaholic was in full force and refused to budge, else my humongous budget (all $200 and not a cent less) and I would have hauled ourselves back home. I'm guessing the lack of a seating area is meant to encourage browsing but honestly, in a store so tiny that it takes 5 minutes to wander from one end to the other, how much browsing did they expect their customers to endure? We can't all be lemmings walking around blindly. Some interior designers need to wake up their ideas.

Anyway, the bottom-line is I am now equipped with a swanky new mobile phone with enough functions to put all other mobile phones to shame. So hear me roar.

It's got a VGA camera with 2x zoom, video + sound recording, large and gorgeous screen, bluetooth, hot swappable MMC, media player, wireless presenter, powerpoint and word document viewer, an English-Chinese + Chinese-English dictionary and some other applications that perform arcane functions that improve your life in areas that you didn't know needed improving. Oh and it makes phonecalls too! There're some online reviews that mentioned stability and reliability issues though, so I'll be keeping an eye on it while the warranty lasts.

The next phone I get will fly me to Mars and back I swear.