Adam Hinz: The Blog
Stereotypical Bitch Blog Post
On 2008-01-04 at 1/04/2008 05:03:00 PM...
My phone broke again. I'm on a family plan with Cingular (The NEW!!! AT&T), and we just reactivated our plan in April. We also got new phones. I picked the Sony Ericsson Z525.
In September (just five months with my new phone), the display died. All that showed up was a solid white screen. The phone still worked; I could make and receive calls, but I had no idea if I had a missed call or who was calling. And, of course, my address book was completely useless.
It was still under warranty, so ordering a replacement was easy enough. Life carried on.
Well, while in Arizona over break camping out before the IU bowl game, the display died again. Exact same thing as before.
I called Cingular (the NEW!! AT&T), and after waiting on hold for 3 minutes of going through the system, 5 minutes of waiting for an operator, being transferred, going through the system again, 5 minutes of waiting, one minute of dialing which went to a busy tony, redialing the number, through the system again, and 6 minutes of waiting, I finally reached an operator.
I'm still under warranty, so I will be getting a new phone. Actually, it's a refurbished phone of the same model. I asked if I could get a different model, because this is obviously a recurring problem, but they said I have to go through three (3) warranty phones before I can change models. By my calculations, this phone will die in 4 months, just in time for my 1 year warranty to expire, and the phone company will screw me over.
All I can hope for is that my POS phone dies before April.