phones – T E Shepherd

To upgrade, or Not To Upgrade?

Thomas — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:00 +0000

I am now eligible for a free upgrade of my mobile. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, as the battery isn’t quite what it was on my own, and it can be sometimes a bit slow to start up in the morning. So I checked what I was elligible for online and yes, I am eligible for the fancy, touch-screen, kind of iPhone-like Nokia 5800 for nout. So after work I headed into town to the local Vodafone shop. I’ve now discovered that they calculate elligibility differently in store to online and that I *could* have that phone there and then if I stumped up 90 quid. No thank you. I’ll go back online later and get it for free, even if I have to wait for delivery, which will no doubt be to my home address which will mean going to collect it from the Royal Mail sorting office (open between the terribly useful hours of 9-4.30 Mon-Fri…??!!!) to pick it up…

Connected?

Thomas — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:35:00 +0000

Okay, Iâve just got off the phone from (another tedious) TalkTalk. Turns out that they werenât aware that my line was now activated â as far as they were aware I still needed an engineer to call on Friday. The number is my number though, and the line is my line and they were pleased to know about it. What it does also mean is that as no engineer was required, I wonât be needing to pay the one hundred and something odd quid connection fee.

Now I have to just wait three weekâs for my broadband and answerphone to be activated…

Random Calling

Thomas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:51:00 +0000

Okay, that is weird. I just got myself into bed and our phone rang. What the? I think, but weâre not connected yet! It was just the one ring and no message left, but I try dialing my mobile and it rang, and then I call back and it rings again, and I can answer myself.

It seems we have a phone again.

Additionally…

Thomas — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:58:00 +0000

…it seems that when in my pocket, my mobile phone – a Motorola V3i – is at precisely the same height as the granit work top in the kitchen, and thus I have mashed my third front glass in as many months. It’s replaceable – via ebay – but still, its annoying. I think I shall be upgrading my phone just as soon as I get the opportunity.

As good as new

Thomas — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:05:00 +0000

On Saturday, the glass cover on my mobile phone cracked, and during the course of the week it has been disintegrating still further.

Tonight I have succeeded in fixing it, thanks to the replacement glass arriving from my ebay seller (just four quid!), and, following the loose instructions provided by my seller, prised off the rest of the glass with a pen knife, cleaned it up, and stuck the sticky-backed glass on the front. And hey presto! Its as good as new…

Well, almost – if you ignore the scratches on the body…