Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

As mentioned before Cingular hooked my wife and I up with 2 new Samsung C417 phones since the LG C2000’s that we had were not cutting it.

The C417 is an awesome phone and the camera on it is actually usable to take pictures. My wife and I are snapping photos of our kids all the time now which I think is great.

I had a belt clip pouch that I had left over from the LG phone that I tried using for the Samsung. Unfortunately the elastic on the sides was stretched out so the phone kept on falling out. Because of this I decided to get one that had a magnetic cover to keep the phone in place (picture on the left).

This case did a great job of keeping the phone in place but after a while I started to notice some weird things happening.

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When you move to a new area it can be difficult find stores and services in that new area.

That happened recently when my wife and I had decided that we needed to purchase a mini van. I knew the local dealers that were right around our immediate area but I always like to shop around to get the best deal (just because dealer may sell the same cards doesn’t mean they sell them for the same price).

Anyway, I ended up having to drive around looking for different dealers on my own. I wish I had know about Autotopolis. At Autotopolis the have a Car Dealership Locator and Rater all built into one site. Not only does it list the dealer in you area it also gives a Google map so you can actually see where the dealers are at.

I did a search for Toyota Dealers around Round Rock, TX and found one dealer that I did not even know about. I also found that they had a really good rating. I wish I would have known about Autotopolis before as I would have checked this dealer out also.

This website is great for anybody who has just moved to a new area or even for people that have been in the same are for a while.

This post is sponsored by Autotopolis.

I have always been hard on cell phone companies. IMO cell phone companies have always been screwing the end user and laughing all the way to the bank.

I have been with them all, Verizon, Nextel (before it was with Sprint), Sprint (before it was with Nextel), and now Cingular. Up until this week I had elected Cingular the worst cell company out of them all.

The main reason was even though I would have full bar on my phone the reception was terrible and I could hardly hear. Also, their customer service did not seem to be that great. I had vowed that once my Cingular contract was over that I was going back to Sprint.

That all changed yesterday though when I received the the Samsung C417 replacement phones that Cingular had sent out to replace my LG C2000s.

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