Many years ago my friend bought a Nokia N-gage.
One of those poncey (yet crappy) gaming phones. He wouldn't shut up about it for the week beforehand.
"I'm getting a new phone in a week - a Nokia N-gage"
"I'll have my phone in 4 days"
"2 days time I'll be playing better games than that on my phone"
"18 hours and I'll picking up my N-gage"
Just generally being a complete technotwat about it. You know the kind.
For that reason I waited 'til he'd owned it for a couple of hours and sent him a text that went something like this:

Hey! Did you get the Ngage? How i# ## ######
**MESSAGE CORRUPTED**
**ERROR 843**
**REBOOTING MESSAGE**
Hey! Did you get the Ngage? How i# ## ######
**MESSAGE CORRUPTED**
**ERROR 843**
**MESSAGE TERMINATED**

A few minutes later I got a text back asking me to repeat myself, because my text was all garbled. I replied with:

Garbled? I was aski# ## ##### ##
**MESSAGE CORRUPTED**
**ERROR 843**
**CRITICAL SIM ERROR**

And then, nothing. No reply. I waited about an hour and called him.
Turns out he was already on a bus back into town with his malfunctioning phone...
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 12:00, 7 replies)

tempted to do this to the missus to wind her up

(Claude Speed was a Roman called Claudius Speedicus, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 12:45, closed)

I love this
so much.
(costas, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 14:07, closed)

That's Ace
I hate people with poncey phones. Have a click.
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 14:26, closed)

That's very good.
Have a click.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 15:15, closed)

Oh I am SO trying this out...

(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 16 Jan 2012, 15:16, closed)

You win! Fantabulous!
(CheeseyPeas, Mon 16 Jan 2012, 15:36, closed)

Probably did him a favour
The N-Gage was a notoriously shitty phone. Had to turn the phone off and remove the battery in order to flip game cartridges. How retarded is that?
(MagicMoose, Tue 17 Jan 2012, 21:17, closed)