I Kill Phones

[Pax]

I think you need to glue a leash to your phone!

[Owlie]

When we still did the Virgin thing, we got my phone from Target, so that might be an option.

My sister is on her third phone. She keeps leaving them in her pockets and washing them. One survived for maybe a day afterward.

[Pax]

[jamijo]

Yuck. I used to work customer service and then tech support for Verizon, so I don't know much about Virgin phones -- but I can tell you that it's probably not the battery but rather the inside that's having issues due to moisture. Generally, once they die after water damage, they're toast You can try cleaning the contacts of the battery and the current phone with an alcohol swab to see if there's any corrosion on the contacts causing it to not work, but if that does nothing, it's probably done for.

As far as BTDT... my favorite story from when I was working at Verizon was the guy who called in to activate phone #5 in four weeks for his daughter. She worked at an amusement park, would ride the rides when she was done with her shift, and on one coaster her phone kept falling out of her favorite place to put it (in her bra).... They were re-activating old phones previously used on the account, she went from a blackberry to a simple 9-key with no external display during the span of those 5 phones. Never did go back to see if that one stayed activated any longer than the others.

[Geonz]

Thanx! I've actually done pretty well with... okay, not *dismally with knowing where it is. I am kinda thinking of getting a cheap phone -- and then using that bigger-than-I-expected tax refund to help fund a good tablet or Ipad. (There's *another* decision! Flash, or the Apple world???)

[Geonz]

I think you need to glue a leash to your phone!

Shhh! You know too much :P

I've been thinking it wouldn't be a bad thing to have two of them...

[marni]

I am very easy on cell phones, just got a new one, an upgrade on renewal with verizon but I still haven't mastered all the finer details. Not that it matters since it mostly lives in my purse and is only used in emergencies. On the bike it goes inside a zip lock sandwich bag in my jersey pocket. I have often double bagged it in doubts of rain.

Digital cameras on the other hand....... I have finally learned that if I have one in my jersey pocket, to flush the toilet by facing it, not to reach back and flush it while standing up.

marni