Welcome To Earth David

I got a new cellphone…. A Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Cellphone that is. It is very thin, very light, and very awesome. It is so light that I bought a strap to attach to it because I was scared I would fling it out of my hand if I went out walking with it. It supports a 4 GB Micro SDHC card which is just enough to hold my current mp3 collection. I have purchased a 4 GB Micro SDHC card on eBay which hasn’t yet arrived here at home so I don’t have my music on my Nokia 5310 yet. The phone also has a built in radio, which I have not yet figured out how to find. I think that is cool. My other Nokia phone from ages ago also had a radio built in and it was a great feature to have. Anyway I’m not trying to do a review of my new phone in this post. I just wanted to announce that I went out and bought a new phone, and I got a very good deal on it. I had to extend my T-Mobile contract, but I got the phone for $70.00 which isn’t bad since this is a $200 dollar phone. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that this phone will let you use your favorite earbuds or headphones as it uses a regular earbud connector. Very cool!! As of today I’ve only had this phone for five days so I’m still getting used to it, but I think this may become one of my all time favorite mp3 player cellphones… and I have had several. I’ll think about doing a review of my new phone later, after I’ve had more time to play around with it.

I borrowed this picture from this website, and I hope they don’t get mad, but I do want to thank them because they are the only one’s online I could find who had a picture of this exact radio boom box. It is 4:15 a.m. and I am having a major flashback to my late teen / early 20’s all because of a comment I responded to a short while ago regarding music players. I got to thinking about a particular boom box I owned before and during a short time I was in the army and I am laying here in bed looking at this picture of the model D 8300 by Magnavox wishing I still had my bright yellow radio that I loved so much. This was my BOOM BOOM haha…. at least that’s what I called it back in the 80’s. I think the year I bought this was in 1987 or 1988. I remember saving every penny I could get my hands on so that I could buy this double cassette deck boom box. It had a shoulder strap and I used to carry this big thing everywhere. My favorite cassette to listen to on this thing was Taylor Dayne’s first album release. It was a clear cassette and I would just sit sometimes and listen to her sing and watch the little spindles in the cassette turn. I remember walking to my friends house down the street with this thing strapped over my shoulder and my music blaring from it. I miss that so much! I thought I was cool walking with this thing. I don’t remember what happened to my boom box… Maybe I gave it away. Maybe it stopped working and I had to throw it away. Who knows? But there is one thing I know and that is I absolutely loved this boom box. This boom box was available in yellow or black. As stated earlier, I owned a yellow one because it looked better than the black one I thought. I remember the first time I saw this boom box in the store. It’s bright yellow color and it’s design really caught my eye. It was definitely the most awesome boom box I had ever owned. It was pretty loud I should say for it’s size. I have found a black one on ebay, and I am thinking about bidding on it, but I am seriously looking for a yellow one like this one in the picture. I would love to have another one to be able to plug in my mp3 player to it and listen to all the new music I love now on something so old that I loved when I was younger. Ok I’m gonna cry myself to sleep now cuz I really am missing my boom boom.

Before I go to bed… here is something I think is really cool. Does anyone remember the JVC Kaboom Boxes? Well JVC has brought it back again and it is updated. It now plays mp3 cd’s. This is the JVC RV-NB1. Add this to my want list.

UPDATE 07/14/08: A reader has submitted this cool picture of his D8300 boombox. Check out the bumblebee stickers and the cassette tapes. Very cool picture. Thanks John!!!