I have spent the last few months trying to drag an iPhone4 out of the hands of Vodafone and into my sweaty palms. My Blackberry is dying on its feet. Every day it decides it needs a rest and I get the cold unblinking stare of the egg timer as the phone seizes up.
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How do you reset a Blackberry, well in the immortal words of the IT Crowd you turn it off and turn it back on again. However on the Blackberry, as it has seized up, this involves taking the back off, taking the battery out and putting it back in and waiting for it to power up… and waiting… and waiting… and waiting.
So on my trip to the UK last week where again I was totally frustrated by technology as my Dad’s weigh connection and internet connection in general resembled something you would find in the Gobi Desert, my daughter was given an iPhone4 for her 18th birthday present. She gifted me therefore her HTC Android which she had no more use for because she wasn’t in Spain any longer. I put my SIM card in and voila, instant upgrade to a decent Smartphone.
I spent about six hours setting it up, getting my accounts into it, Audioboo, Google Reader and a ton of other apps to help me run my business whilst in queues at banks and the like and started back for Spain.
Now for some reason the data wouldn’t load whilst in the UK and France but as soon as I got into Spain there it was all working and great.
I started work the day after getting back, recorded an Audioboo about my encounter with a 4 foot snake crossing the road in front of me and more impressions of the Spanish property market and sent it everywhere while driving. All cool.
The next day. The screen doesn’t work!
Back to Blackberry, back to seizures and back to hounding Vodafone to give me the iPhone4 they promised me in July.
If i have been less prolific in the last few weeks you now know why.
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