Yay! I can has phone back!

So, here’s the thing.

Towards the end of last month, I discovered that the bluetooth on my phone had decided not to work. Now, this was a problem due to the fact that I regularly used the bluetooth on my phone. Mostly the headset for making/receiving calls but also to move pictures from my phone to my laptop.

So, this was a bit of an embuggerance.

I contacted Samsung about the problem and they said I could either send it in for repair or I could go to an authorised centre to get fixed. Nearest one to me is in Newcastle, the next nearest is York. So that’d be a no then.

I arranged with a friend to borrow his phone for a couple of weeks while mine was away and sent it in for repair. Each day I checked on the Samsung website for an update. Last Monday I got a shock when it said on the site that the repair had been cancelled. I emailed Samsung to find out what was happening and they told me it was out of their hands and gave me the number of the company I needed to contact. I called them only to discover that Samsung were a bunch of lying liars who lie. They hadn’t looked at my phone yet but it would be back with me shortly.

Well, it arrived today. I has my phone back! I can’t tell you how excited I am. Being able to text without deleting half a million times! Internet on my phone! Being able to listen to music! A decent camera!

And, because I have installed a new bluetooth stack on my computer (so I can use my bluetooth headset with Skype (not that anyone actually speaks to me on Skype though)), apparently I can now link my phone up to my computer and use my computer microphone and speakers to make calls! I’m going to test this one out later.

Ah, the joys of geeking out to strange things.

Will