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I just took all these old phones (not the iPhones!) down to the recycling bin at the local Whole Foods. I thought I’d shoot a pic of the lineup before they all went off to gadget heaven.
I was loyal to Nokia GSM world phones for a long time, even though a lot of screens went dead on me. I switched to BlackBerry Pearl for a while, and now I’m on the iPhone… I’ve broken two iPhone screens already too, but they both still work.
Eh. So, I get this new AMEX Platinum business card. “Very impressive card, sir,” says the woman in the AMEX call center in Chennai as she activates my card. Yeah, thanks. In the end it’s just plastic.
And, get this. It seems that AMEX can only handle one single authorized shipping address per card number. With my VISA business card, I do have to have them put any new shipping address on file, but I can have any number of shipping addresses on file at a time… With the AMEX, I can only have one shipping address. One. Are they insane? The solution they offered was to call them, and change it, whenever I needed to ship something to another address. Are they insane? Have they never heard of a business with more than one address?
Are they insane? Does my fancy new AMEX Business Platinum card suck a**?
Right now, it does.
What can I say? I’m a bit of an iPhone klutz. I was taking it out of my jacket pocket and sort of caught my finger in the process, causing me to fling the phone onto the concrete garage floor. I feared the worst – picked it up and sure enough the screen was horribly fractured. Of course I immediately poked at it to see if it was still alive, and got a nasty little glass splinter for my eager finger.
Luckily I was able to backup the more badly damaged 3G and restore everything onto the older machine, which seems to work perfectly. Remarkable! Then I packed the busted-up 3G off to PDASmart.com for repair. I’ll update on how that goes when I get it back.
Side note: now that I’m temporarily back on my older 2G phone, I’m reminded how much better the battery life is… wow. And how much 3G sucks – so far at least, I’ve had to keep it turned off 100% of the time. All these 3G-related lawsuits are no surprise.
Mail.app fix: Once I resored I was having a problem with Mail.app crashing every time I launched it. I found the fix – described here as a permissions problem, probably caused somehow by earlier hacking. Since I had un-jailbroken when I upgraded to 2.0.2, I had to use QuickPwn to re-jailbreak, install OpenSSH, and then I could connect and run chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile, which took care of the problem (no restart required). As a bonus, now I have both App Store and Cydia/Installer.
UPDATE: I got my 3G phone back from PDASmart.com in just a few days, and they did a great job with the repair. I think it was $130 and good as new… Funny, it seems that the iPhone screen repair info is gone from their site… Hmm.
