Blurred Thought

Cellphone scare

I had a total of seven cellphones in a little more than ten years. Most of them were either Nokia or Motorola. All of them were usually pretty simple, nothing special, of course today most of them would be considered antique. The last one I got, a little less than a year ago, was different. I wanted to have Bluetooth that can connect to my PDA, computer and a wireless earpiece. As the search went on, things weren’t becoming very clear. I ended up with the fanciest, most advanced model I found at the time, the Sony-Ericsson Z600, two of them. It was way out of my budget, and as these things go not worth the cost.

So here I am, almost a year later on my way to lunch and the phone rings. I open the clamshell, press the answer button, another ring, press again, “ring”, I look at it as if to scare it and press again. Poooooffffff….. The phone has shutdown (yeah, it’s not powering off, it’s shutting down like a computer). I’m baffled, the battery was almost fully charged. I press the on/off button. Nothing. I decided to go to lunch and deal with it later.

When I came back to the office I tried to wake the phone to life again, but nothing, no response. There was no resort; I knew what I had to do. Before doing anything drastic I took the battery out, and looked around. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I tired everything I could think off (including changing SIMM with my work phone) to no avail. I could not believe this is happening. In all my years of owning a cellphone, none of them ever broke down. How depressing.
At the end of the day I went down to the car, showing my wife the useless electronic rock that used to be my cellphone. And than ….Pooooffffffff…. The phone came back to life. No button pressing, no shaking, it’s just turned on as if nothing happened. Needless to say, I was very happy. But how can I trust it now? How can you regain the trust after ones betrayal?

posted by TheBlurredOne at 5:49 PM