Want vs. Need

It’s always a big decision. Should I buy this or not?

Here’s the situation: I want to upgrade my phone. There’s nothing really wrong with it; I can send and receive sms and calls. But it doesn’t have a camera, GPRS and media player.

Of course, the main purpose of a mobile phone is to keep me connected to friends, families and business contacts. My current phone does that. While I do have a pretty good camera, I like having a phone camera for days when I don’t feel like bringing my camera with me. Another upside to having a camera on a phone with a GPRS is that I can send the picture, and have it posted in my blog. As for the media player… well, I like lsitening to the Ievan Polkka when I’m on the go.

The $200 question is, will mobile blogging improve my blog? It’d be fun to take a photo of where I am and then post it to show off to my reader the amazing place I’m exploring while they’re sitting in front of their computers. But this can also be stalker fodder, and I sure as hell don’t want to feed them more information than I’m already giving out.

Do I really need this phone?

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