So my stupid phone died again!!!!!!!!!!! My previous phone... the PALM Treo 650 half-died on me a few weeks ago... wouldn't ring outloud, which meant that any calendar notifications or the speakerphone (which I used often) didn't work either. So I got a new phone... the Blackberry 8100 pearl. It is a really nice phone to use but it pissed me off that I had to spend nearly $400 on this new phone because the store wouldn't exchange my old one, which was less than 2 months past the 12 month warranty period. Dumb. What's also dumb is that 'little' things started acting funny a few months ago - when I was still within that 12 month window - but because it seemed to re-set itself, I never worried about it.
So now, after my monsoonian bike ride yesterday, my new phone has completely died. Did it get wet in my closed and water-resistent pack? It was probably humid in the pack, but not wet. And my other phone rode with me in my pack in the rain... many times... and it kept working... PLUS, I had my digital camera in the same pocket and it works tickety-boo, thank you very much. Oh... I even had a motorola Startac (one of the original flip phones) about 5 years ago that I went swimming with! No kidding! I dove in the pool and forgot I had it in my pocket. DOH! Eventually I remembered and when I took it out, it was blank, so I opened it, popped the battery off, and let it sit in the sun for a couple hours. When it was dry I plugged the battery back in and it was perfect. That's a TOUGH phone! But apparently this new $400 phone is a piece of crap.
They had better not give me any grief at all when I bring it back today!
1 comment:
glad you enjoyed the pics. sorry to hear about the cell phone! i have an indestructible/waterproof cell phone that i paid a dumpload for it, i dropped it the other day and then it stopped working.. it wouldn't read my sim card. i brought it in two weeks ago and today i got a brand new one! so here's hoping the same happens for you!
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