What was the worst damage you’ve ever done to your mobile phone?
July 16, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Cell phone
So I dropped my phone (yet again) square on the pavement yesterday. I had barely noticed the small chip on the front plate of my Nokia N82’s real estate due to several phone calls that came in. The calls were a huge distraction to the apparent sinking of the lower 1/3 of my phone’s keypad. This made text messaging a bitch the following day (I fell asleep inside the cab and didn’t touch my phone the entire night).
I think the way we treat our mobile phones sort of reflects the way we treat our health. I recently got a huge bout of food poisoning from my hawker experience in Singapore and it really sucked the juices off me. Any sane guy would have gone to see a doctor – but no – not me. I hung around the 3 day conference finishing off a packet of carbon pills and antacids. Holy crap (literally).
And yeah, the thing with my phone – I believe that the first fall screws up the phone, and the second fall jingles the insides back to normal. Heh. So here I am, stubborn as ever, wanting to not part with this N82, even if Nokia lent me another phone to try out. I believe that some miracle would fix the small chip on the side – maybe if it fell again on the opposite direction, it would have matching crevices. Neat-o. Talk about the fashion series.
What’s the worst damage you’ve done to your phone?
I was a truck driver in the past and then once when I was connecting the trailer my cellphone dropped from my pocket just under the truck. After connecting, I moved truck few meters and the phone was in the line… So it went in pretty bad shape but it rang when I called it
. That was a Ericsson (not sure what model tho).
Last year in August, I was somewhere on the Alps on vacation. I was watching TV in my hotel room when I decided that it was a good moment to go to the restroom. While I was walking towards the cup (ahem…), somebody called me. I picked my Nokia E90 (900 Euro!) out of my pocket and the phone suddenly took off from my hand heading the cup! But that was not enough, because before diving into the water, it crashed very badly a couple of times into the cup itself. I recoved it immediately, I opened it, I tried to dry it up and then rushed it to the Nokia service. After a couple of days the horrible response came: “sir, what happened to this phone? It’s rusty inside and the motherboard is embarqued”. Not sure if embarqued makes any sense, in Italian it means having the shape of a boat (!). Anyway, 900 Euro gone… And after all this, I never managed to know who was calling me!!