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Is it OK for a man to admit that he loves his phone?

… Let’s pretend I didn’t say that. But it is awesome. My last phone was a Nokia 3100. I stuck with it because couldn’t justify getting a new one. But I couldn’t resist the HTC Magic.

Both Android and the phone itself rock. Due to incompetence from various telecommunication companies, the phone is not connected yet. Even so I have found great use for it. In the five days I have had it, I have used it to take reference photos for a project at work, read news, email and chatted on it (over wifi), and played DOOM (haha :). This morning I downloaded a GPL sound recording app called Rehearsal Assistant. The sound quality is good*, even when using the standard USB mic that comes with the phone. Now I have a little recording studio in my pocket, and I intend to use it to sample sounds for my game. I have been thinking about getting a recording device for a long time, but again, I couldn’t justify it. Now I don’t need to.

If you are thinking about getting one of these but aren’t sure, I say go for it: you will find plenty of use for it.

* Just remember to set it to record WAV: the compressed format is quite low-quality.