Devastated... Replacing the Replacement
Well, this is my very first post, but a heartbreaking one...
Late in January I finally got the nerve to leave Sprint and sign up with AT&T. My phone of choice was my very first BlackBerry. I bought the BlackBerry Curve 8310, and fell in love with it. (MUCH better than my old cheap flip phone.)
Flash forward to two weeks ago. In a truly bizarre chain of events involving a faulty SIM card, stronger than normal magnet in the holster, a scratched screen, an inept salesperson at AT&T, and a shady "repair" shop that severely damaged my screen after 4 attempts to fix it, I had to replace my phone. Given how outrageously bizarre the situation was (too long a story to tell), it was replaced for free, and by a miracle I received a new phone rather than a refurbished phone.
Tonight I was walking down the street, phone in hand in a different holster (the sleeve), when suddenly in a freak accident it flies out of the holster! It skidded 50 feet on the concrete after crashing hard. Needless to say, it's annihilated. No part of the housing is salvageable, several of the buttons are broken, and the button to press to remove the battery door is crushed in, meaning to remove the battery and SIM card requires prying the phone open. I can't manually dial numbers anymore, but can still call preprogrammed numbers. Miraculously, the screen didn't get scratched at all! Still, my replacement phone is destroyed after only 7 days, before the original phone has even reached its final destination in the mail!
Needless to say, I have been crying much of the evening, as I couldn't make it to any store in time, and my finances are going to take a huge hit in replacing the phone. I've never had such horrible luck with a phone before! Hopefully the third Curve's the charm! It's horrible, though, to be on my third phone in three months! I was so careful, too... I wouldn't even let others TOUCH my phone! Thank goodness I was able to save the SD and SIM cards. I was very lucky, as the latches were jammed and broken.
So yeah, it's been a devastating time...