Verizon Wireless

Follow These Tips From Cell Phone Heaven

Jay Kim is the God of Cell Phone. I have done everything wrong with my phone: I’ve dropped it in hot tubs, bath tubs and sent it flying into the Troposphere when I was hit by a car, I’ve trained as a runner in the summer so hard that my phone has shorted out in its holster from all the, ahem, sweat. I have no idea whether I’m under warranty, over warranty, due for an upgrade, due for a low grade. I simply bare my soul to Jay, bring him all the little pieces, and he takes care of everything.

Jay works at the Verizon store at 3217 Lake Street in Wilmette, in the same mall as Aki-Hana sushi restaurant and the Malnati’s Wilmette satellite. He knows I have only two non-negotiables: I have to keep my contact list since I can’t remember anybody’s number and I have to have the Mission Impossible theme song as my ring tone.

Jay thinks I should upgrade to the G’Z One Type-V phone. It’s a very macho phone, the sort that says “I jump out of planes all the time without a parachute and I need a phone as tough as me”. It is pricey at $299 with a two year contract. But it has all kinds of cool features for the adventuress in me. There’s an LED flashlight for when I need to illuminate top secret documents in a villain’s file cabinet. A 2.0 megapixel camera for identifying the terrorists as they leave their safehouse. A stopwatch so I can time how long before the security guards at the nuclear plant come back on their rounds. And a GPS system in case I get dropped in the middle of Bosnia without a map. I don’t need the Mission: Impossible ring tone with this phone. I AM the Mission: Impossible.

Jay has a few tips about buying and caring for your cell phone. video Click on the video to hear them and set your GPS to his store. He’s there to help you find the best phone but he’s also the guy you’ll run to when you drop your phone in the garbage disposal. Which doesn’t sound as glamorous as having your phone chewed up by guard dogs at the SuperMax prison but, hey, life can’t always be an adventure.

--Arlynn