I love newfangled technology. I also hate it when it acts up and as of today, I have a nice new high-technology paperweight courtesy of Palm, Inc. I was attending a fine barbecue and spending some time at the pool and just generally having a nice Sunday afternoon when my phone decided to just freak out and stop working. I got out of the pool to check my messages and make plans for the evening, and all of a sudden the Centro just decided to try to repeatedly hotsynch (even though there wasn't a laptop for miles around). I was able to respond to one text message but then I couldn't get the phone to turn off or do anything. So, I started the reset process which began by removing the battery and after that....el Centro was el dead-o.
Apparently this is a known issue because I was able to quickly find several posts with people complaining of the same problem and from what they said, it sounds like I'm going to have to get it replaced because the Sprint techs apparently don't know what to do to fix it. Gee thanks, Palm...thank you for taking care of this issue for the rest of us. I went through 3 or 4 Treos with stuff like this, and I was really hoping that the Centro would be a little bit more robust. *sigh*
Of course I'm thinking that everyone I have ever known is trying to call or text message me right this very moment and it's driving me insane. And thus, my first order of business will be to take the Centro into the Sprint store and get my communications back (although I have no illusions that it will be a quick or painless process). I think that's a valid reason to be late for work, don't you? So if you need to get ahold of me tomorrow, your best bet might be to email me until you hear otherwise because that's as technological as I get these days.
I'm freakin' out, man....
