Have I mentioned how much I am hating my phone right now? I have a Sidekick II. While it's nice to have a phone with a full qwerty keyboard, a camera, AIM and Yahoo!Messenger, and the Sidekick Plan Add-On (Unlimited
Internet and text messaging), it's not so nice when you can't actually USE the features. So much for being available.
It started in the beginning of the year. I downloaded a new update to my phone and all of a sudden my AIM would start up on its own, which was fine..except for the fact that I had been spending the last half of the year trying NOT to be so tied to my phone, especially with the
IMing. I could do this, not be so
OCD about the phone right? wrong! I quickly fell into my old ways with the late night
IMing and the checking for messages every 5 minutes...
Then in March, calls dropping, reception became crappy, and my
Internet would just stop working all together. Of course I would appear to be signed on AIM to the rest of the world, I just wouldn't get
IMs until the
Internet came back up. Then I would be
inundated with
IMs.
When April came round the problems progressed to not letting make outgoing calls, incoming calls being sent directly to voice mail, and delayed or lost text messages. Oh and lets not forget the AIM blitzing out and signing me on, then signing me off, then signing me on. This was also around the time my brother got a virus on his Sidekick..how the hell do you get a phone virus?!
It's now May and my phone service seems be back on track. AIM no longer does the crazy signing on and off, I'm receiving and sending my text messages just fine, reception is back to normal, and the
Internet is working. The only problem seems to be the phone itself. It no longer vibrates. I know it can, it just won't when I
receive a call, text, or email...also the ear piece no longer lights up. Again, I know it can because it does when I verify the settings, but it doesn't actually do it when it's supposed to.
I really want a new phone. I really want to get the Blackberry 8700, but I know what's going to happen. Blackberry + Me =
Crackberry..