I've got your number written on the back of my hand

[venta]

My phone's gone off to be Looked At (and, with luck, Seen To) by the nice phone shop people. I have a borrowed Nokia to tide me over til it comes back, and so I am temporarily bereft of numbers.

So: Please can anyone who sends me an sms sign their name to it ? Even if you *know* I've got your number ? Otherwise there's a strong chance I won't know who you are.

And no, I haven't broken my own phone. Well, only a little bit. It had a bizarre intermittent fault, which I have no doubt they won't be able to reproduce. So, they'll probably just flash it, and send it back to me with all my numbers wiped :(

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

Didn't you have a T68i?

Yup. That's the fella.

I had one of those and loved it dearly

Well, I suppose one bloke's phone-wot-sucks is another chick's phone-wot-is-dearly-loved.

When I next upgrade, if they don't offer me a stupid amount of money for handing it in, you can have it. The case is a little scratched, but the phone is in working order. I can't bring myself to say perfect working order considering how much I think it sucks.

Still... I think Motorola are worse. I used to have a StarTac... maybe that's what put me off flippy-open phones in the first place.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think Motorola are worse

Every Motorola I've ever encountered has sucked rabidly. I didn't want one at all at all.

Mr Phone Shop told me that the interfaces of all Vodafones phones has been standardised, so I had no need to worry about a Motorola sucking as it would be the same interface as any other Vodafone phone. I queried this, as it sounded like a bunch of arse. He insisted it was true.

It's a bunch of arse, of course.

The one thing I really do like about my current phone is its flippy-open-ness. Means it's quite small while still having big buttons, which is lovely.

I'm not sure your phone is in working order if it switches itself off all the time - mine never did that once, and it lived its whole life in pockets. You might be right about the interface - however, trust me, it's better than this Motorola's, so I've probably got rosy memories of it. (I'd had limited experience of phones before getting the T68i, so might not be the best judge.)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I've got a Vodafone phone. It's a Sagem my V-65, which I believe you can *only* get from Vodafone: it's been customised specifically for them.

The interface sucks. If this is an example of their standardised interface, then they all suck.

(eg. Phone book: Press 2 to go to "A", 3 to go to "D" etc. If you are on "A", and you press 2, you... go to "A". My Seimens went to "B", and then "C". The fastest way to get to "Smith" in my Phone book is to press 8, for "T", and then scroll up. And that's just a mild example. T9... Don't start me on T-bloody-9! Teach it new words? Can you buggery? OOh. I've just checked. It knows how to spell that. Wow. First dubious word it's recognised!)

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

My old Nokia phone was lovely, but then I lost it and couldn't get another. So now I've got some Siemens (I think) gubbins. What I really want, though, is a proper bakelite mobile phone with a rotary dial and none of this texting nonsense.

Random semi-off-topic ranting

[triskellian]

Talking of people in phone shops talking a bunch of arse... I went to the Carphone Warehouse with secretrebel at the weekend. One of her requirements was a phone that she could use to get an internet connection to her laptop, and the first guy we spoke to, on discovering that the laptop in question is a Mac, was terribly dismissive and claimed that you could only do that with some difficult to find and/or expensive software. I've successfully used my Sony Ericcson something-or-other with my Mac laptop to get an internet connection, and it worked fine, with no extra software at all, so I told him so, and he refused to believe me. And then, when he'd palmed us off on someone else, presumably because he thought we were difficult, the other guy almost sold her a contract with no GPRS at all, despite extensive discussion about that being something she wanted. It was only when we double-checked (as we thought) that it was possible that he admitted it wasn't. Gits.