If you like it, then you shoulda bought a ring [tone] for it.

Forgive the following entry, it’s totes snobby, but hey, that’s part of my charm, right?!

I need a new cell phone – currently, I am the “proud” owner of a Motorola razor and have been so for a year-and-a-half. The longest relationship I have ever maintained with a mobile phone.

According to The Boston Globe, the owner of the Motorola razor is the following:

“Once the phone used by the uber-fashionable, it's now favored by clerks at Claire's, those who refuse to change ‘Gold Digger’ as their ring tone, and folks who are still quoting Paris Hilton catch phrases.”

Despite my New England prep background and my parents’ new Volvo, my phone says to people:

“Hey! This is the guy who served me my bagel at Penn Station this morning or the boy who works the graveyard shift at the new Dunkin Donuts on 9th Avenue.”

It’s time to upgrade the phone and the image it conjures.

When it comes to the mobile, I firmly believe that our little friends are the ultimate status symbol. Particularly as one who lives in the city and does not own a car, for me, the cell phone is the most important tech showpiece.

Despite this notion of mine, I’ve never owned the latest, hottest, trendiest phone. The razor was my first attempt into that world. Prior to it, I had the classic Nokia. Unfortunately for me, unlike Grace Kelly movies, some classics do die.

I certainly think an iPhone would go brilliantly with all of my outfits, but the problem is:

A.) I am on the family plan still, and will have a difficult time getting my mother to upgrade…and seriously, do I want to give up the family plan status just yet?! I think not.

B.) I want to look cute, but technology and Cory do not get along particularly well, so I’d spend the majority of my iPhone time confused and angry.

This begs the question: What is the phone for me? Something that is hip and cool. Yet easy to use and Cory friendly. A phone that does not look like it was stolen from the sketchy bodega on the corner of 40th and 8th, but is also one that won’t cause my parents’ wallet to go into cardiac arrest?

I just do not know.

Thoughts, guys??? Seriously, I need advice!

Until my wireless communication woes are solved, om, chanti, chanti, chanti, namaste.