So advanced, it makes monkeys evolve...
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI am staring at my mobile phone with something between apprehension and annoyance.
Apprehension because I really can't be bothered with a long verbal and mental duel with Carphone Warehouse if it goes belly up on me, and annoyance because it has just had a dickey fit.
By and large I like my mobile. It is a Sony Ericsson Z600 and is just approaching (or has just passed) its first birthday.
Today, in its capacity as reserve alarm, it went off at 8.30 promptly, just in case all other methods of waking me failed. I turned it back off and made a cup of coffee, then logged on for a half hour before leaving the house. At that point I discovered that it wouldn't turn back on. More to the point, it remained dead if I plugged the charger in. So I stuffed it in my pocket, dug out the spare, an old Ericsson T39m and came to work. On the Tube I prodded and poked the Z600, took the battery out and checked the points, put it back together and prodded some more.
Dead as a dodo.
So with imprecations floating in my head I stuffed the bugger in my pocket and made a mental note to switch the Simm to the reserve phone (cursing myself for transferring all the numbers to the phone memory rather than the simm), and braced myself for a run in with Carphone Warehouse at lunchtime.
I have experience of their after sales service, see.
I have had two phones die on me for no reason in the past -both, as it happens, Ericssons - the T28 I passed on to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_draconis is the replacement for the original. My spare T39m is a replacement, the original having died for no reason. In each case, they took the phone off me, and said their engineers would have to check I hadn't done something stupid like flushing it down the toilet or something, before getting it repaired. In each case, they sent it off to Ericsson, and in each case, after six or so weeks of complaint, they gave me a new one off the shelf. We always knew that the Ericsson engineers were never going to do anything.
So this time I was ready and was going to have a go at them, quoting my always paid, but never used insurance.
But when I got off the train, I looked in my pocket, and the Z600 was alive again. It had turned on and was patiently awaiting a PIN number. It seems fine now, so no trip out at lunchtime.
But I am copying those contact details.
Oh, yes.
Apprehension because I really can't be bothered with a long verbal and mental duel with Carphone Warehouse if it goes belly up on me, and annoyance because it has just had a dickey fit.
By and large I like my mobile. It is a Sony Ericsson Z600 and is just approaching (or has just passed) its first birthday.
Today, in its capacity as reserve alarm, it went off at 8.30 promptly, just in case all other methods of waking me failed. I turned it back off and made a cup of coffee, then logged on for a half hour before leaving the house. At that point I discovered that it wouldn't turn back on. More to the point, it remained dead if I plugged the charger in. So I stuffed it in my pocket, dug out the spare, an old Ericsson T39m and came to work. On the Tube I prodded and poked the Z600, took the battery out and checked the points, put it back together and prodded some more.
Dead as a dodo.
So with imprecations floating in my head I stuffed the bugger in my pocket and made a mental note to switch the Simm to the reserve phone (cursing myself for transferring all the numbers to the phone memory rather than the simm), and braced myself for a run in with Carphone Warehouse at lunchtime.
I have experience of their after sales service, see.
I have had two phones die on me for no reason in the past -both, as it happens, Ericssons - the T28 I passed on to
pax_draconis is the replacement for the original. My spare T39m is a replacement, the original having died for no reason. In each case, they took the phone off me, and said their engineers would have to check I hadn't done something stupid like flushing it down the toilet or something, before getting it repaired. In each case, they sent it off to Ericsson, and in each case, after six or so weeks of complaint, they gave me a new one off the shelf. We always knew that the Ericsson engineers were never going to do anything.So this time I was ready and was going to have a go at them, quoting my always paid, but never used insurance.
But when I got off the train, I looked in my pocket, and the Z600 was alive again. It had turned on and was patiently awaiting a PIN number. It seems fine now, so no trip out at lunchtime.
But I am copying those contact details.
Oh, yes.