I have an Iphone. This is the first phone I’ve bought from Apple and twice now the darn thing has stopped working, claiming that a fully charged battery is dead. I know it is a software error; some miscommunication between parts of the device. I read about it on the Apple support site as well as blogs on the subject. However, my knowledge is useless when it comes to the hermetically sealed products developed by the technomagi at the Apple research department. You cannot open anything Apple without incurring a visit from the secret service, so while my often failing Droid X was a POS, I could tear out the battery for a hard reset. I can’t do that here, and that is where my story begins.
One of my handful of male friends called me and asked if I wanted to come over and hang. I said yes and had him text me his address (because I can remember nothing and I am tech dependent). Moments later the text came in and the phone shut down. It went in that bam, bam order. I plugged it in the charger and finished up dinner with the kids. Afterwards I checked the phone and it was completely dead.
It remains dead.
The toughest part of this transition to a totally wireless world is understanding what to do if your phone fails. I don’t have a back up, so without my phone I cannot reach anyone. That doesn’t mean it is time for a Casa-Talislegger home invasion. It means I couldn’t go see a friend, because I had no idea where to go or how to tell him I didn’t have a phone. So, I ended up stuck at home with angry kids and a whole lot of disappointment.
I could use a burner phone right about now.