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How has a mobile phone wrecked your life?

(, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 12:14)
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I have a Blackberry that is fail
It wasn't always this way. Back in the mists of time...ok a few months ago...I bought it as a PAYG orange phone and hacked it to work on BT - no not vodafone or O2, BT! This would now house the shiny sim card that came with the previous mobile I had as part of my broadband deal.

At first all was great, surfing the worldwide interwebs in parks, in shops, running, jumping, climbing trees...you get the picture. I LOVED MY NEW SHINY CRACKBERRY. But alas I grew greedy. I was only allowed a 10mb allowance and repeatedly exceeded this, so I phoned BT and asked them how much it would cost for unlimited data. A mere £4 per month later and a promise that it will be activated in 15 days time, I can scarcely contain the anticipation growing inside.
The 15th day arrives, I receive a text from BT asking me to restart my phone so the changes can take effect - yes it was from BT, it wasn't hacked by someone else, I've called them several times to clarify this - I go to boot up Operamini...'click here to start the connection test'. Hmm...never done that before. And that's all the internet I get out of that. I try the inbuilt browser 'please check you are connected to wifi'.

Several months of trying every permutation of changing the data settings to allow data using GPRS, wifi etc...and the best I get is a cracking signal when I'm near a wireless router and the inability to send picture messages. It's a good job it's pretty to look at or it would have gone the way of 8 nokia's in 2 months. ALSO, despite its amazing word learning abilities for most words I've used over and over, it still reverts to vent when I call someone a cunt.
(, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 23:23, 1 reply)
Crackberry
Tried new service books from BT??????
(, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 9:11, closed)

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