Over the last week, my Samsung SGH-T809 slider phone has started crapping out. The UI (and seconds later, the whole phone) will completely freeze after I've typed in more than three digits, making it completely impossible actually dial a number that isn't already in the phone's memory. Oh, and it dies randomly during the day.
However, T-Mobile has decided to quit selling the T809 slider and only offered me some crappy flip-phones as replacements. I hate flip-phones almost as much as I hate Stallone movies, so I wasn't about to have any of that.
The local T-Mobile store happened to carry the T809's replacement (the backwardly indexed T629) for a modest sum and another two-year contract, and since I'm sick of missing calls and being unable to call new people, I picked up a copy. It looks like Samsung improved the already tolerable UI and made most of the phone significantly snappier than it was before. They also replaced the completely unacceptable 't' button (used to signify OK in practically all contexts) with a bona-fide 'OK' key, so I'm really happy about that.
And the upshot of all of this is that I still get my crappy flip-phone replacement, so Layla and I will have a Nokia 6103 or Motorola RAZR backup in the mail shortly. If I wanted to go that way, I could even get the DG edition. Blingin'.
Leave a comment