I have just broken (or lost or otherwise compromised) my fourth or fifth Visorphone. I've lost count. I had one for two years or so, then it went smash on a San Antonio parking lot. I replaced it with a new PDA (the phone was OK), which I promptly lost on a downtown Atlanta street. It was in the pawn shop before it hit the ground. Was there one in between these two?
I was ready to go back to a stick phone and a slip of paper, when Geoffrey remembered that he had a Visorphone combo he was no longer using (he has a fancy Seimens Pocket PC phone that I am jealous of.) So he gave it to me, and it worked until last week. Then the phone quit. It would get only the weakest signal, and most of the time no signal. Sprint would probably barter me a free clamshell for signing into indentured servitude to them for another two years, but no, Geoffrey had aNOTHer phone. We all got them free, remember? So he brought it over last weekend, and I went through the rigamarole of getting on the line with a third world Sprint representative and hitting the arcane combination of keys to program it into service. The signal was nice and strong and I was feeling pretty good.
Today I was walking to the post office, with my Visorphone "securely" in its "protective" case, clipped to my belt. I dropped one of my packages, bent over to pick it up, and the belt clip slipped off my belt and the phone went boom on the sidewalk. It was bitter cold and windy, so I stuck it into my pocket, but when I opened the case in the P.O. I found the screen smashed to smithereens. Why can't they make those things out of plastic?
I can only draw one conclusion. I don't WANT a Visorphone. And I refuse to buy a Treo, because it's one thing to drop and break a free Visorphone and another to destroy a $600 investment.
Like I said, I give up. Maybe Fisher-Price has something nice in my size.
