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varjohaltiaSo, a while back I went to get a new cell phone after managing to crush my trusty Ericsson T39m. The Ericsson is, by and large, the best phone I've had. It's small, has IR, has Bluetooth, has good battery life, and a lid to cover the keys without being a stupid clamshell. It's also quite sturdy, but not sturdy enough for my stupidity. It still works, just looks a bit worse for the wear. Now, when I say it still works, it works as well as it ever did, for the only real problem with the phone is that its radio module bites, and fades out now and then. No incoming calls, no outgoing calls, no SMS. Then randomly it comes back after a few more attempts.
Anyway, I went to buy a new phone. I did some research, realized that all new plans I could sign up for to get a new phone would cost me $10-$20 more a month, making the free new phone all but. Also, none of the phones being peddled now appealed to me, and nobody carried the phones I wanted.
I did find the Ericsson J300 series phone, though, and because I was stupid, and because Phonescoop defaults to the closest matching phone without clearly warning you that they're displaying the data for a phone different from what you entered in the search field, I ended up with a J300i, i for international, that is the GSM standard used everywhere on the planet except for the US. These are not world phones, so: d'oh! I did like it, though, so I went and bought the J300a, a for Americas, and have been happy with it. I've also been trying to figure out what to do with the useless for me rest-of-the-world model. Until I sat on my new phone and broke the LCD into many very prettily colored pieces. It's a backlit stained glass artwork, or caleidoscope even. Unfortunately, all that multi-colored pretty makes using the phone a lot harder.
...so I took both apart, swapped display modules, and have a working phone back.
I'm not entirely sure what to think of the whole affair. I might settle for thinking it's good Karma, ignoring my clumsiness which keeps breaking my portable electronics, and feeling good about my handymanness! (Especially since I already had the Ericsson-sized Torx tool from trying to fix the earlier T28w, on which I crushed the case. Kind of like my Nokia 3650. Which, incidentally, has now a brand new case, and is for sale for cheap :-) )
Oh, and there are people in my yard fixing my windshield, which got broken -- twice -- on I4 the other day.
And that's that, for now.
Anyway, I went to buy a new phone. I did some research, realized that all new plans I could sign up for to get a new phone would cost me $10-$20 more a month, making the free new phone all but. Also, none of the phones being peddled now appealed to me, and nobody carried the phones I wanted.
I did find the Ericsson J300 series phone, though, and because I was stupid, and because Phonescoop defaults to the closest matching phone without clearly warning you that they're displaying the data for a phone different from what you entered in the search field, I ended up with a J300i, i for international, that is the GSM standard used everywhere on the planet except for the US. These are not world phones, so: d'oh! I did like it, though, so I went and bought the J300a, a for Americas, and have been happy with it. I've also been trying to figure out what to do with the useless for me rest-of-the-world model. Until I sat on my new phone and broke the LCD into many very prettily colored pieces. It's a backlit stained glass artwork, or caleidoscope even. Unfortunately, all that multi-colored pretty makes using the phone a lot harder.
...so I took both apart, swapped display modules, and have a working phone back.
I'm not entirely sure what to think of the whole affair. I might settle for thinking it's good Karma, ignoring my clumsiness which keeps breaking my portable electronics, and feeling good about my handymanness! (Especially since I already had the Ericsson-sized Torx tool from trying to fix the earlier T28w, on which I crushed the case. Kind of like my Nokia 3650. Which, incidentally, has now a brand new case, and is for sale for cheap :-) )
Oh, and there are people in my yard fixing my windshield, which got broken -- twice -- on I4 the other day.
And that's that, for now.
