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The Sony Ericsson T68i Pavement Test

People frequently ask me, "Dick, what do you think would happen if I dropped my old Sony Ericsson T68i on the pavement?" "Well, people, it's funny you should ask me that", i often respond, because I have dropped my old t68i on the pavement bout 8 or 9 times now, with curious results. Essentially, the t68i hitting the pavement seems to function much like an aging prizefighter. The first few whacks on the pavement don't seem to do anything to it, except maybe scratch up the pretty surface a bit. Confident that you have one swell little device that can take a beating, you find yourself constantly tossing it high in the air, a la high school graduation cap. For instance, somebody might say "is that phone expensive?" and you'll say "it sure is" and then whip it as high in the air as you can, pretty sure you're not going to actually catch it when it comes down. This has the combined effect of making you seem both "carefree" and "kind of a jerk". Then one day, you pick your trusty old t68i off the pavement or sidewalk or hood of that car, and something bad has happened. This is what it is, and it gets worse over time: The phone starts to forget things....it loses random contacts, and while it seems to have a good long term memory for the old contacts it does remember, it doesn't do so well with new contacts that you try to add to it, regardless of repeated attempts to add the new contact. Also, it seems to develop a desire to have lots of new blank contacts, in about a 2 to 1 proportion to the number of contacts that it's lost. Finally, it turns itself off a lot....more and more....over time. In the end, it seems to function remarkably like i imagine an aging prizefighter would function with periods of seemingly normal behavior, with lots of absent memories, and occasional lapses in conciousness. . Did I already make that analogy in this paragraph? well, lookee there, I certainly did. Wow, that's not very good at all.....Time to run back to the library and check out more metaphors.

Next week: "Dick, what happens when your Sony Ericsson T610 camera phone hits the pavement?" and also, "Dick, why do you drink so much?"