Man-oh-man... I think I've died & gone to Heaven! I just got a mid-range smart phone and it's da bomb! It's a Samsung Galaxy Ace and uses the Android running system... I knew it would be better than my old flip phone, but this is truly amazing to me... There are literally hundreds of free apps out there to download and the whole system is so much easier than anything I've ever had before.... At one time I had a Palm Treo, using 2G networking, and then I had a Motorola C3 (I think it was...) anyway, it was like a trimmed down Blackberry....with WiFi...... The Palm was way too slow to be of any real use...then the Motorola wasn't much better due to not having a Data plan, just using it WiFi was slow and the screen wasn't big enough to see much...more bother than it was worth... This new baby has built-in GPS, another 1st for me and it is sooo awesome... I can even watch Netflix on it (the sound and picture don't exactly sinc, but hey, I'm not complaining!) And did I mention that I now know what all the fuss about Angry Birds is about..and it's too cute!...The flashlight app is really bright using the flash from the 5mp camera...and I can catch up on Facebook on it! Nook and Kindle apps are free to download as well as dictionaries, Bibles, maps, Tetris, Jeweled, card games, dominoes, word games, sudoku, Yahoo mail...note pads...etc....etc... As you can see, I'm having a hard time keeping my hands off of it for more than 2 seconds at a time....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAnfShoQZA0
The above site should take you to a clip about it....And it really is that quick!
Guess what I'm saying is that, if you don't want to spend a fortune for an ipod, then this is a great way to go, plus you can use up to a 32 gig micro SD card with it...tons of memory!
