At least I know how to knit.

I was so excited when I finally got a new cell phone this summer. For once I was allowed to choose which phone I wanted instead of being stuck with the least expensive (and nearly always chunkier and uglier) model. Oh yes. Inside of that bland, brown FedEx package was a brand new LG enV2 laden with QWERTY keyboard, two megapixel camera and mp3 player.

As I turned my maroon masterpiece on for the first time, I dreamed of effortless text messages, high quality photos and easy music transfer from my computer to my phone. How easily dreams can be squashed.

The first two came true, but the third, oh the third, how it escaped me. As it turns out, the only way to get music on my phone is to buy it from Verizon’s VCast program. The enV comes with both USB and microSD ports, but it is not possible to simply plug the phone in to a computer and transfer songs from iTunes or copy them from a microSD card.

I should have known better.

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