A couple weeks ago I was attending a training class and somehow managed to spill a big cup of coffee perilously close to the laptop that I was using for the class. Reacting instinctively, I threw myself into the fray and interposed my lower body between the scalding liquid and the innocent computer. I successfully took one for the team, as it were, and immediately began cursing the heat-holding efficiency of my travel mug under my breath.
When I went to the bathroom to try and clean up, I realized that my cell phone was in my pocket, and was…how do we put this delicately? Squishy. Shockingly, it actually worked reasonably well after it dried out and I cleaned it up, but several of the keys were sticky (dump 20 ounces of coffee with vanilla nut creamer on it and that’s a fairly likely outcome, I guess) and worst of all, it smelled. Like coffee. All the time. When I used it for any length of time, my HAND would smell like coffee. It was unpleasant, to say the least.
I tried to deal with it, but it was just too annoying. As of last night, I am the proud owner of a Motorola v360 (a solid if unspectacular handset – it looks quite a lot like my former phone, a Motorola v300, and has a good set of features to go along with pretty good call quality). The upgrade also allowed me to get a bluetooth headset, an option unavailable with my v300. Here I decided to splurge a bit, and went with the Motorola h700. I’ve used it all of three times and my geek heart is enamored. For one thing, it’s tiny – something like 2.5 x 2.15" and a whopping 0.2 ounces. The foldable boom mike can be used to answer and end calls, which I find wildly cool. Perhaps best of all, it fits snugly against my ear but doesn’t go inside the ear, so it’s barely noticeable.
As an added bonus, now I won’t be breaking the law when I talk on the phone around Chicago. The headset-only statute is something I’ve completely ignored up until now, but when I could use that law to justify spending money on a cool new gadget, I was suddenly very concerned about being in compliance. Go figure. 
