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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
It is bigger, it is better, it is the mega mobile.
In a time long forgotten, when the mobile phone first emerged and set us free from the tethering of wires and houses, it was of massive proportion. Large, bulky, and not able to fit into the teeniest hand-bag, it needed to sit in the console of a very nice Jaguar just to be used. But as technology advanced, the cellphone, nee mobile device, evolved and slimmed down.
My first cell phone was about six inches long, weighed a ton, and couldn’t text. But then a funny thing happened to the world of hard-wire free phones. The cell went on the cabbage soup diet and grew smaller and smaller, until it was able to fit into a pack of Marlboros or the pocket of a pair of skinny jeans (which I am still not able to do).
In the new trimmer flatter devices, texting and making calls was a breeze — if you were 16 that is. All that was needed was great eye sight and fingers slimmer than Pixie Stix. But if your fingers resembled knockwurst and your eye-sight was nearing middle aged miasma that required arms longer than a spider monkey to hold the phone, making a call to the right number or texting was a lengthy, arduous, and often embarrassing task.
So there were too many “Sorry, I hit the wrong buttons” at inopportune moments, and far too many mangled texts. One particular message I sent was so mangled it prompted my editor to ask, “Are you having a stroke?” My reply was “Sorry, I didn’t have auto-correct on.”
But apparently the tides have turned and the undernourished, skinny, tiny smartphone has joined the ranks of the plus sized.
The other night, as I surfed the tube searching for anything that wasn’t a summer re-run or a reality show that was so not real, I saw an ad for the new Galaxy Mega android phone by Samsung. With a 6.3-inch high definition display, this cellphone has gone back to its bigger beginnings. This phone is big and beautiful. Now the skinny-cell-phone-challenged (like me) generation can say hello to a bigger screen.
According to the media buzz, this new phone is billed as a “tablet-smartphone hybrid,” with software that allows you to control the device without touching it (that’s the best news yet), able to use multiple applications at the same time, and leap tall building, (not really), and control your television from afar, which for me is fantastic, since I can’t control my TV from a-near.
Not for Nuthin™, but I think that when it comes time to re-up my plan, I’ll be saying good-bye to my LG and saying “Hello Galaxy Mega.”
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Joanna DelBuono writes about national issues — and reviews electronics — every Wednesday on BrooklynDaily.com. E-mail her at jdelbuono@cnglocal.com.