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High-diving cell phone
November 20, 2006
High divers routinely plummet from great heights into small bodies of water and survive just fine, so why can't a cell phone? A friend of mine recently knocked her brand-new cell phone off the counter and into her dog's water dish. Though she instantly scooped it out and carefully dried it, the next day the screen went blank. At the cell phone store, she was told that the connection from the battery to the phone had been irreparably damaged and she would have to get a new phone. And, by the way, the damage was not covered under warranty.
My son bought an iPod last year. He had problems with the controls, took it in to the store and was given a new one. Though the difference in customer service is definitely noteworthy, I can't help wondering how we became such a throw away society? My dad kept our original RCA color television working for twenty years by opening it up and replacing whatever part was broken. Try to repair a television made today and you'll most likely be told that it will cost less to simply replace it. On top of that, I hear that in 2009 both of my televisions will become obsolete when we transition to terrestrial DTV.
Though I certainly prefer teenagers walking around plugged into their iPods instead of making the rest of us listen to their choice of music on a monster boombox, I still miss the days when something being broken meant that it got fixed instead of tossed into the trash.
Posted by Naomi Eigner Price on November 20, 2006 | Comments (1)
