I’m planning a technology spend-a-thon of epic proportions soon, I plan to shell out a whole £206.73. I am quite excited about it though, my plan is as follows.
The most part of this expense is the new phone I plan to purchase, the Motorola DEXT. I wanted to try and upgrade to a phone that can also fulfil duty as an mp3 player (so it needs a standard headphone jack), and as a camera (so it needs a reasonable resolution – nothing too high, 5MP will do me). I was very pleased to find an Android phone available on pay as you go, as this means that my phone will run linux, I can add lots of interesting apps to do stuff, it will integrate well with my gmail e-mail should I choose to use it (and more importantly calendar), and it’ll mean my phone runs linux (enough geek points that I mentioned it twice 
). Hopefully, although I’m not 100% sure about this, it should mean that also for the first time I will have an mp3 player capable of playing OGG and FLAC files.
While the bulk of the money I plan to spend will be on that phone, there are two other items. Firstly, partly related to using my phone as an audio player, I found out that Sennheiser have released a successor to the PX-100s, the PX-100-IIs. I want them. Ad I am going to get them.
The fial and least expensive item is a ‘Patriot XT Boost 150X 8GB Flash Drive’. To put it simply, I want to replace my otherwise perfectly good but U3-ruined and unbootable flash drive with a super-fast, U3-free, bootable one. Plus, it’s supposedly ruggedised and waterproof, which should mean it’s at least a bit tougher whether or not it actually lives up to its claims.
However, the plan is not solid, and I suspect I may change my mind about the flash drive and go for a super-mini one in the end instead. Who knows.
EDIT: I have bought the phone and headphones so far. I don’t know if I will actually buy a new flash drive in the end – at least not yet.
