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Telephone travails

My husband continues to use his machine-washed cell phone with no detectable difficulties. Meanwhile, my phone stopped keeping a charge. I'd charge it up, talk for 10 minutes, and it would power down with no warning. I hung up on Tim, my mom, a couple friends and my boss at various times during the past few weeks.

A chat with "Skippy" the so-cool-everything-bores-him employee at the local Verizon store revealed my sparse options. A battery replacement would be $50. On a three-year-old phone. Or, for less than half that, I could trade in for a new phone.

So I have a new phone, while Tim's stuck with his formerly water-logged communications device, waiting for the evidence of fried parts to show itself.

Not fair is it.

We should've both just bought iPhones. By the time my phone contract's up in two years, maybe Apple will have lowered the price enough we could actually afford them.

Comments

Chilly Dog said…
Amy, maybe before you got a new phone you should have tried washing it in the washing machine. It sounds like that can't hurt a phone. Just a thought.

Chilly Dog
Brianne said…
Yeah... I always tend to upgrade mine after a couple years because you can get $150 off your new phone at Sprint. Then again, they all START at $300-plus nowadays so it's not that great of a deal. If I could afford it, a Blackberry would be awesome.

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