Sad Gadget Head

I am a sad gadget head.

I am a huge gadget head, I love to read about all the latest phones, and tablets. I love to debate whether we are in the Post-PC world or not (I still sit with not). I read gadget blogs, and subscribe to gadget newsletters and I can bore most normal people to tear with gadget ramblings...but, there's a problem.

I don't make enough to buy the latest gadgets. I bought an original Razr when they were well past their primetime of coolness. I bought my last feature phone when everyone was going to smartphones, and a Windows Mobile phone on the eve of the release of Windows Phone 7. Now, here is the one place where I caught the curve. Thanks to Microsoft, I got Windows Phone 7 before it was officially released, but because I am on Verizon, I then had to wait many months before I could get Windows Phone 7 and use it as a phone.

Now, my geek-gadget-headed-ness is pushing me towards a tablet, but I cannot afford one of the latest models, with Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich (those are Android flavors for you tech cretins), no, the only thing I can afford runs lowly Froyo, the old version of Android.

I'd love to have a nice shiny Asus Transformer Prime, but I simply cannot afford it...or at least I cannot justify the expense with so many other things that need doing. I can barely afford a Samsung Galaxy Tab...and I don't mean the Galaxy Tab 10.1, or 7.7, but the old original 7 inch version of the Tab. I am having trouble pulling the trigger on the sale, because...it is such an old version, and I am tired of being behind the curve.

I need to win the lottery, just to fuel my gadget addiction....well, actually...I need to win the lottery to START a gadget addiction.