For future reference: Cell phones do not survive a full cycle in a washing machine.
So… does anyone have an old Verizon cell phone they are not using any more that they would sell for cheap?
Yeah, I have been digging through EBay for the past few days… The problem seems to be that there are a plethora of realy cruddy phones on there, and a lot of really expensive ones, but not many in the middle. Oh well. I am sure I will find something (it is EBay, after all).
Bummer about the iPod, Pistolero… that is probably more expensive than my phone…
Thanks for the offer, Les (though sorry about your loss as well). I have a brand-spanking-new (to me) phone inbound to me tomorrow, though, so I hope I should be up and running again shortly.
As I mentioned a while ago, I sent my previous cell phone through the washing machine in a pair of pants – needless to say, the phone in question did not survive the experience, and I had to procure a…
Despite Joe Huffman proclaiming, “I hate Windows Mobile,” at the most recent Gun Blogger Rendezvous, the phone that replaced my now-very-clean KRZR turns out to be an Audiovox XV-6700 smartphone… with Windows Mobile 5 as its operating system. The pho…
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“I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation: but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.” by Thomas Paine
Check eBay, plenty of inexpensive Verizon phones for sale there.
Cell phones do not survive a full cycle in a washing machine
Neither do iPods…
Yeah, I have been digging through EBay for the past few days… The problem seems to be that there are a plethora of realy cruddy phones on there, and a lot of really expensive ones, but not many in the middle. Oh well. I am sure I will find something (it is EBay, after all).
Bummer about the iPod, Pistolero… that is probably more expensive than my phone…
I’m getting a Blackberry at work next week so I could sell you my Razr … except that I lost it on Saturday.
Thanks for the offer, Les (though sorry about your loss as well). I have a brand-spanking-new (to me) phone inbound to me tomorrow, though, so I hope I should be up and running again shortly.
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As I mentioned a while ago, I sent my previous cell phone through the washing machine in a pair of pants – needless to say, the phone in question did not survive the experience, and I had to procure a…
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Despite Joe Huffman proclaiming, “I hate Windows Mobile,” at the most recent Gun Blogger Rendezvous, the phone that replaced my now-very-clean KRZR turns out to be an Audiovox XV-6700 smartphone… with Windows Mobile 5 as its operating system. The pho…