My Samsung Corby

I finally bought some pop-up stickers from Urban Write to “brand” my Samsung Corby. I didn’t want to make it too fanciful thus I just added 2 little star stickers to brand it as my personal phone. I have to say this isn’t an original idea from me. This idea was from my current favourite show, You’re Beautiful. In the show, the female protagonist has a few pop-up stickers on her Corby as well. I love this idea because I find it really cute.

Mi Nam's Pig-Rabbit

I’m a Christmas girl and I love buying gifts for myself during the Christmas season. I admit I’m a huge fan of You’re Beautiful. Hence, I ordered the pig-rabbit toy from Korea for SGD 39! Mama never fails to get me a Christmas gift every year and this is her gift for me. =D It’s an extremely unique toy since it’s a rabbit with a pig nose. It’s definitely not the kind of toys you see everyday.

Pig-Rabbit

Isn’t it the most adorable bunny? It’s a huge toy standing at 55cm and I’m so excited to receive it. It will arrived in Singapore at the beginning of December. I’ll be posting photographs of my new toy then. I am thinking of naming it “Minami” after the female protagonist in the show. Sounds cute, no?

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I shall end this post with my Christmas wishlist of 2009.

Christmas Wishlist

• Bod Clarifying Clay Mask – I got this as a gift for myself today!
• The BodyShop Winter Makeup – Eye & Cheek Palette
• The BodyShop Winter Makeup – Shimmer Gloss
• The BodyShop Divine Calm Essential Oil
• Eco Tools Retractable Kabuki Brush
• You’re Beautiful Pig-Rabbit Stuff Toy – Just ordered this from Korea
• Long Bi-Fold Clutch Wallet / Hello Birdie in Almond from Cottonpurr

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2. “How do you know Christmas is coming?” meme
3. Secret Santa Gift

Samsung Corby

I received my first Christmas gift of 2009 – A Samsung Corby from Chewy. It was an early gift as we wouldn’t be celebrating Christmas together this year. He’s going back home to Kuala Lumpur so I’ll be alone during Christmas. Chewy seems to like the touchscreen of Corby. I can’t remember how many times I’ve said this but I am not a fan of touchscreen phones. I think I’ll need some time to get use to using such phones again because I spend 10 minutes trying to send an SMS this morning. I know I fail.

My friends from school highly preferred the Corby over my INQ mini. They are like “oh my gosh Dayna, your new phone looks great. Glad you decided to get a new one.” when they see me with my new phone in class. By the way, my INQ mini is still alive and I gave up my LG Viewty for adoption today. I’m going to miss it. So, back to the Corby… there are 3 colours – white, yellow and pink. There are also green and orange in Korea but somehow they didn’t bring those into Singapore. I like the orange and yellow one but Chewy is a fan of white and black phones so I got the white one. Even though I’m a huge fan of pink, I decided a universal colour will be better. It’s easier to sell it off in the future since not everyone is a fan of pink like me. On a totally random note, according to the korean drama, You’re Beautiful (which I’m so in love with), white stands for purity. It’s not a bad choice eh?

Close up of Samsung Corby

Each set comes with 3 covers – plain white, white with prints and a plain black. I like the plain white one because I was going to get some pop-up stickers to decorate the phone but Chewy prefers the one with prints. I’m still going to get the stickers though. It needs something to be branded as “Dayna’s mobile”. =D

Back cover - White with green and grey prints

Side buttons - I always press the wrong one when I'm unlocking it

Default wallpaper of the cartoon theme

Animated main menu

I was quite wowed by the google maps. The location shown wasn’t exact but it was within a 1 kilometre radius of where I was so I guess it can be considered pretty accurate. For someone who has a poor sense of direction, this will certainly comes in handy when I get lost.

Google Maps

Wallpaper from my own illustrations

After playing around with it for a day, I think it’s not too bad. The set doesn’t comes with a data cable which may be quite troublesome for some. However, I use bluetooth more often so it doesn’t bothers me much. Similar to the INQ, the camera of the Corby is 2MP and takes quite decent shots. The quality is slightly better than the INQ mini. It isn’t a 3G phone and does not have Wi-Fi. Internet speed is a bit slower but it’s not a big deal to me. I don’t surf the net often with my phone. Most of the time, I use it only for twittering and twitpic-ing.

The Corby also has the smart unlock feature which is really cool in my opinion. You can set the phone to unlock by writing any one of the alphabets on the screen. I tested quite a few letters and I think V is the easiest to unlock. This feature is more convenient since the “press side button and hold” option is slower. There are also 3 types of fonts for users to choose from. I’m using the cartoonish font (type 1) and it’s really cute.

How do I like this phone? Quite a lot, considering the fact that it was a gift from Chewy. Hopefully, it will be my trusty phone for the next 1 to 2 years.

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2. Secret Santa Gift
3. 10 reasons why I love the INQ mini