PG and I are 'gadget freaks', if it has a chip in it, is electronic or is even vaguely computer related we will have it if we can remotely afford it.... and fiddle with it unendingly! Not, I hasten to add, necessarily because we need whatever gadget has taken our fancy, more purely because it exists to be played with!
It is as a consequence of this that we encounter the odd disaster as did PG last night. All this technology is fine and wonderful until such time as a 'mishap' occurs.
Bear in mind here that last time PG acquired a cell phone, Bluetooth was still financially out of the question and so as of course one has too, when he bought said phone we had to have the data cable and software to go with it.
Somehow I think life would have gone on just fine without the ability to back up the information on both phones, or to be able to download pictures and tones for free but the option was there for more fiddling and so needless to say we took it.
That is where the trouble began! This is a Nokia data cable and Nokia software, nothing hookey or brand 'X' but still, within a month of use a year ago I had inadvertently, completely destroyed a brand new phone with it. Fiddle excessively we may do but my understanding of things technological still does not explain to me how Nokia's own equipment could wreck the chip in the phone so completely. Ours is not to question why apparently and Nokia did at least replaced the phone after some degree of wrangling. This brings me to last night and PG's endeavors to take off his phone, prior to acquiring a new one and selling the old one, all things deemed 'important'.
I did warn him, I reiterated how unreliable this system appears to be but not to be off put and siting the fact that I used it subsequently and without incident he went ahead......... *pfffff*, in a silent and virtual puff of smoke gone forever was another phone, chip blown, everything gone, completely and utterly defunct!!
We, of course have spare phones, he is not going to be utterly lost but I think we will not be going the same route again!
Technology........hmmmmmm?
Friday, 26 November 2004
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Lol Cass, I think you have the best idea and even Nokia's software leaves alot to be desired. I stupidly bought a new camera phone, with VGA quality to post here and save lugging a camera everywhere but forgot to check if it was bluetooth....it isn't so I'm off to ebay to try out your theory! :o)
Alas as my cheeks turn a bright shade of red, the only "chips" i love are ones with salt and vinegar!!! I am afraid i buy this "you beaut" technology, but it never gets the usage it deserves as i am not a fiddler. Fiddling freaks me....(a).. i don't have the time to sit and fiddle..(b)..am a huge chicken that even if i did, i'd do a PG and "KABOOM"..lose the lot!! I admire fiddlers, but could never live with one....the stress...eccckkk!!! Besides, i'd be forever hiding the remote...OMG....what is it with men and remote controls!!
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