In an earlier entry I mentioned that I broke another cell phone… well that was 5 months ago, and now I have ANOTHER dead phone. Doing the math, that comes to 3 dead phones in 18 months.

First phone: Samsung SCH-8500 speaker suddenly died one day. I answered at least 5 calls before I realized it, “hello? HELLOOO??? what the hell?” Total life was about 18 months.

Second phone: Samsung A400. After just over a year it began randomly powering off. The thing is, it wouldn’t power back on unless you took the battery off for a few seconds. Now the real strange thing… I thought I would have to argue with Sprint about this since it wasn’t easily reproduced. When I explained it to th rep at the store he basically said, “oh yeah there’s definitely something wrong… let’s get you a replacement right now.”

Third phone: Samsung A400 (the replacement). This one lasted 5 months. One day I’m… doing stuff… and checked the phone to see if the ringer was on only to see a jumbled screen. Power off and back on…. no screen at all anymore…. that’s that!

So what am I doing wrong? I hope nothing. I am however losing faith in Samsung cell phones.

Too bad they keep getting replaced under warranty. I need a good excuse to buy a new cell phone!

If you’re a geek you almost definitely know what Bluetooth is… but if you aren’t, you probably don’t. So what?

So if you don’t know, then let me oversimplify it. Would you like to sync your palm w/o a cable? How about use a handsfree headset w/o plugging in something? What if your Palm could tell your phone to dial a contact, but then take the call through your cars build in handsfree, and at the same time web browse from your laptop… all w/o wires? That’s what Bluetooth can do even right now.

What’s I find surprising is that alot of people still don’t even know what Bluetooth is. For something so promising and useful, the marketing is just not there. With headsets costing less than $60 and Bluetooth enabled phones offered free as contract incentives… why not hype it?