I thought it might be nice to give a better idea of the size of the phone somehow, like I did with my camera and that altoids tin. The two packs of that new Trident gum worked well for that, since I happened to have them.

...then I forgot to continue the 'this is how big it is compared to' theme. Instead, I started on this slow downward spiral of space-wasting. First, with pictures of my phone's new wallpaper. I didn't mean for the image to be slightly too large, but I happen to like how it turned out. So I'm keeping it for a while.

It's hard to see, but I'm using the same image on the outside screen, too. Sorta. If it were literally the same image, the background of the inside screen would be completely black, and 'kittylump' wouldn't even be on the screen at all.

I still have to tweak the one I'm using on the outside screen a bit. I'm still not happy with it, because of that white line at the top -- but it's better than white lines down the side, so I'll live.

I also took some pictures with the phone's camera. The first picture I posted from it isn't exactly a fair representation of what it can do -- or maybe it is. I don't really know how people judge that sort of thing. I was using the 'night' picture setting in a fairly dark room, where the only light was from a computer monitor and a television. For that, the picture wasn't bad.

Once I remembered to turn the damned flash off, I managed to get this picture [again, the packs of gum, because they were handy]. I set my regular camera back to 3mp to get comparison shots, but the one that would've gone alongside this one came out blurry. The two taken with flash are okay, though.

So it's not the worst thing in the world. If I could just get the hang of how long to hold down the button, it might be better -- just in case I don't have my regular camera with me. The button is tricky, you see. If you hold it down too long, it switches to video mode.

I haven't used it to take any video yet. I'm not sure what that's going to be like. I thought about trying it out, but the most exciting thing happening anywhere near me was Gremlin writing on his new phone, and that's not really worth it.

...which is why things like this picture happened.

And this. Because I discovered that my phone has an 'edit' function on pictures. And then this crap called 'fun frames'.

The Samsung FlipShot.

I'm a little disappointed. It didn't come with a data cable. I'm going to have to buy one if I want to have my own ringtone. And I finally want to have my own ringtone.

It's about the same size as the Chocolate, except...it's a little thinner, and one of those flippy things. Clamshell, I think they're called.

The camera isn't impressive, unless you're only comparing it to other phone-based cameras. Then 3mp might be a lot. It was the highest I could get on my plan. And I don't know what it sounds like through headphones, but the MP3 player part of it is kinda neat. The sound isn't...terrible. I don't know what the reception is like yet, or anything else, so this is really kinda a useless posting.

So far, I don't hate it. The number pad is a hell of a lot easier to use than the Chocolate's, and it's nice to have a whole phone again. One that feels like a phone. And it kinda reminds me of the other Samsung I had -- also a flippy sort of camera having thing.

...I just need to figure out why the hell some of my pictures aren't working properly, and get that damned USB cable, and I might be able to figure out if I like this thing. Because whether or not I like it totally depends on whether or not I can have the picture I want as a wallpaper.