It's been about a month since I've bought my new phone, a Samsung Continuum.

Due to my Blackberry breaking on Thanksgiving, I decided to venture out on Black Friday and I was rewarded with a good deal and delightful staff at the Verizon store in Great Lakes Crossing.

I lucked out. I've held off on getting a new phone because they change so quickly and I dreaded getting stuck with a phone I didn't like. But I seem to have done alright.

Later, I saw Matt Myftiu's TECH TIME review of the phone.

In the end, I've been happy and I'm doing new things, such as checking out QR codes, playing tetris and shooting more video than ever before.

I returned to Great Lakes this past weekend because I owed the 3-yr-old some fun and had some shopping to do. She was a trooper, but the mall was really too packed; however, I did luck into a parking spot close by without much of a search and after delays on Baldwin, I did evacuate the area fairly quickly.