Object of desire

I never thought I'd say this, but when this phone - the Sony Ericsson K610i - makes its debut here in Quarter 2, I think I'd love to get my hands on its sexy and passionate Evening Red body. Never mind that design-wise, there's hardly any innovation and it looks like almost every other SE phone on the market. And who cares either that it is a 3G phone that sports the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), supposedly the successor to the current Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)? As for the 2-megapixel camera, please, that's hardly a necessity for me.

But the gorgeous scarlet? Now we're talking! But darn, it's such a sexy 3G phone that it will probably cost upwards of $800 even after I extend my contract and trade in my pathetic SE K700i. In the meantime, off I go to techie sites to monitor reviews of this beautiful thing. Who knows, I may just read something that will wean me off my puzzling fascination with it, considering that I've never really been one to hanker after gadgets and plonk down obscene sums on them prior to this. Well, there's always a first for everything I guess.