T-Mobile Is Invading Your House!

I am sure most of us have seen the new T-Mobile commercials which mostly feature mothers interfering in the lives of their children and husbands via a very spiffy home phone. Cell phones can send pictures to it, you can send text messages right from your kitchen, yadda yadda yadda.

On the one hand, this is awesome and I want one in spite of the fact that I do not currently even have a land line in my house. On the other hand, the commercials really ... really turn me off, big time. Because you can envision that all kinds of meddling will be happening, just like they say. I am not a fan of neon yellow animal prints either but come on. Plus, hi, aren't we texting enough? Do people even talk anymore?

I sing in praise of getting 5 bars on my cell phone.

Good news for us poor shmucks who still don’t have decent cell phone service in our homes. I live in central New York and my cell phone only gets bars in, like, three rooms of a nine room house – only a third of the whole frigging house!

..but anyway! Sprint’s offering up this thing called the Airwave, which is made by Samsung. Essentially, it’s a miniature cell phone tower that works through your broadband. It covers up to five thousand square feet and as many as three cell phones can be used at the same time within its range. Admittedly, T-Mobile’s @Home is similar to this, and it may or may not be cheaper ... and I, for one, have T-Mobile, but whatever, teeny little home based cell phone towers in general are super neat, and considering all the snarking I do about cell phones in general and coverage in particular, it gets a couple of stars from me.