Hidemi's Rambling No.183

I’ve been exploring my new cell phone and setting it up to my liking, such as switching a display language from Japanese to English and a call receiving sound from a piece of music to a normal chime. The phone has a great deal of functions. I can browse websites on the Internet with it, or use it as a train ticket by placing it over the ticket gate at a station. It also has a Second Life-like simulation game in which I can live in and stroll around Paris. I could use those but I don’t because they’re all charged. The plan I’ve signed up is the most inexpensive one that I pay the basic monthly fee of $8 plus the charge per communication use. So, the charged services cost me. Most of the phone’s fantastic features require the communication charges. Other than getting discount coupons via e-mail, I only use its free features like checking news headlines, horoscopes and weather, and using the address book as a lowest price list sorted according to stores. That’s how I enjoy this high-tech, function-filled cell phone…