It’s just so easy to damage a phone. It slips out of your hand and crashes to the ground, gets knocked into a sink, thrown into the wash, and abused in who-knows-what other ways. The lousy part is that when you need to replace your precious gadget in the midst of a 24-month year agreement, you’re very likely to find yourself paying full retail price.
It’s miserable, but it happens to even the best of us.
What we want though, is for you to ‘fess up. Tell us how often you’ve been in this costly situation during your last two-year agreement and whether it’s affected any of your buying decisions. [Thanks to Shooter for this QOTD idea!]
Anonymous
Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 12:56 PMI’ve broken 2 phones under contract. One was a silver LG U880, about 18 months into the contract I was in the city and dropped it by accident, just a few feet onto the pavement, and it shattered into a million itty bitty pieces.
The second was its replacement, a red N73 about 18 months in which I loved so much, but the middle roller button had come off and I tried to superglue it back on, which somehow leaked out and stuck all of the keys together, which I then tried to remove with nail polish remover, which melted the entire phone from the inside :(
Now I have a black N95 8G, it’s about 18 months into the contract and its screen plays up a little even though I never did anything bad to it, and I can’t wait for the POS to die. As soon as I have a job I’m going for an iPhone.