Surpassing Desktop

My daughter has a lot of patience. I mean a lot. For a week now, she has been asking about a princess phone. First we looked for her old toy phone, but no sign of it anywhere. Chances are we threw it away during the move.

So finally last night, we went to Wal-Mart looking for her princess phone. Walked every aisles in the toy section, but just could not find the princess phone. We did find one toy phone but it had a picture of a boy on it so her reaction, this is not a princess phone. By then, I had a feeling that she must be talking about the toy phones by the checkout line. I am also wondering if and when she will throw a fit. But she doesn’t as we carry on to buying groceries.

At checkout, mommy stays with the cart while I & she walk through every empty checkout lane looking for her “Princess Phone,” nada.  So, we leave me thinking to look it up online, maybe Amazon??!!

So, this afternoon I check on Amazon for her princess phone. Nothing satisfactory, but I am determined. As I am browsing through, I am even thinking of buying a toy gun too. And that’s when I stumble on the “V-TechSlide and Talk Smart Phone,” very good review and rather cheap too. Going through the comment someone mentions the phone being $3.00 dollar cheaper at Toys R Us. So, I look it up on Toy R Us site.

During lunch I go to Toys R Us to pick up the phone. Being in IT has its moment, as I am walking through the aisles looking for an associate, trying to find the toy myself and getting frustrated I notice the associates desktop with a pretty white company logo wallpaper. So, naturally for me at least, I look up what kind of tower is it running on. A small form-factor Dell PC, such a waste considering it only has access to the intranet.

Finally I find someone who is able to help. I describe the toy but she thinks it’s out. Shows me where the last one was. I insist on the basis the website says they have it in the store. She walks over to the very same PC and starts looking for it. Shows me the V-Tech model phone she’s talking about, and I tell her I am looking for a different one. I ask if she can look it up on their website and that’s when I find out those PCs doesn’t have internet access, internal only. And the connection is slow.

Finally we find the toy we are looking for. And now she needs the item number to search the inventory. Alas she can’t click on any of the link from her small form-factor Dell PC cuz it’s stuck. By now I have been browsing my phone and look up the item number and show it to the guy who does stocking. He comes back with a full box of the V-Tech Slide & Talk Smart Phone and it has a picture of a girl holding the phone.

The time is here when smartphone & tablet are surpassing, overtaking PC.

p.s. Interestingly Amazon has a 4.5 star rating of the phone while Toy R Us has a 3 rating of the toy.