The Tragic Phone Incident of '09

I am very aware of the fact that I am far to attached to my phone. That could be the subject of numerous blog posts, and perhaps some therapy... moving on. Today I'm going to discuss the impact of having to start fresh with a new Blackberry.

My phone took an unfortunate swim in the sink of Bill's Casino on Thursday night. Turns out Blackberry Curves don't enjoy swimming. Go figure. The Las Vegas Verizon Store kindly setup my phone. I thought yay, I'm all set.

This Blackberry is an impostor, it doesn't look, feel or sound like my baby...ummmm I mean Blackberry. This thing rings and I don't even look at it, this "thing" can't be mine.

At some point I added a desktop theme that made it look like an iPhone. This generic screen is BORING! I can't remember where I downloaded my fake iPhone look, but I have to find it. Ringtones are essential. Without them, I don't know when to ignore or when to pick up.

Autolock oh autolock where are you? Come out come out where ever you are. I keep hitting the right quick key and launching my camera. Wait a sec, that's supposed to lock my phone. I don't know how to lock my phone the hard way. K, fixed that, fixed the quick key in options. I still don't know how to lock it the hard way. No more butt dialing for me.

Contacts - I lost my Blackberry desktop software at some point in the past 3 months. I didn't bother syncing. Well I should have bothered, any new contacts I added in the past 3 months were gone. Note to self - sync and sync often.

Speed Dials - OMG, I didn't realize how often I used this function. Holding in the P,C,D ect doesn't do anything! Man I'm lazy!

Browser - I bookmarked so many pages! Grrrr, why doesn't the sync save these?


and now for the applications

Facebook Mobile - easy enough to add. Thank goodness, if all else fails I can just update my status so all my crazy friends know I'm not dead.e b

UberTwitter - no SBC911SFU twitter update feeds until I get this up and running again. This one is a bit of a pain b/c I have two twitter feeds one for work, one for fun. It's kind of critical that I don't screw that up. ;-)

Mobile Banking

I'm sure there are more, I know there are more.....

The best part is the fact that I get to do this ALL over again when I upgrade my phone with a NEW Blackberry Tour with my new every 2 in a few months.