My MotoRazr v3x gave up on me quite recently. It's been out of condition for months and months now, but I refused to get a replacement then.

First was the outer screen. It's supposed to have some power-saving function, because it's the one that lights up when you shut the phone. Since it's smaller than the real screen, I use that for checking the time, messages, missed calls, manage the mp3 player and so on without actually flipping open the phone. And that saves battery time if you tend to do those things real often. But as I was saying, it just stopped working one day. It doesn't light up when I close the phone. Then I realized it doesn't even seem to know that I closed it, because the internal screen's still working even if it's closed. That must be the syndrome Moto flip phones have that I've been warned of.

Next was the camera! Darrrrrn. I was so frustrated when this happened, as I was the camwhore type but didn't bring a cam to school or anywhere. 2.0MP wasn't bad at all, plus it's got an internal VGA cam to boot. The stream of memories I've been trying to capture was brought to an end. For the duration of the camphone's life, at least. Oh yes I am so freaking sentimental over this.

I also noticed these bouts of weirdness when it just restarts on its own, as in no outside intervention or anything. Episodes of blackouts were also common. I couldn't access a feature, say the videocam, because the screen just blacks out and I can't turn it off using the power button. Meaning, I had to crack it open and pull out the battery to cut power and turn it off. Then I'd put it back and turn it on all over again. Great.

The most recent of the misadventures of my dear mobile phone was when its processing slowed down during normal operation. AS IN IT JUST SLOWED DOWN. No one of my friends wanted to use it if they needed to text or whatever, it was so freaking slow. But then I got used to it eventually.

So at that point in time, I've been using the v3x mainly for texting and calling purposes only. I stopped using the mp3 player already since my earphones went out long long ago and I didn't bother to get a new one, and the speaker was so awful already, probably the result of being dropped/subjected to shock/handled inappropriately for quite a number of times. To cap it off, not even a year has passed but it looked like a ruin already because of the reason/s cited above. The smooth rubbery coating on the face plate was peeling off, and a new face plate cost two thousand freaking pesos. No, thanks.

And then, one day, I was trying to turn it on. But it simply wouldn't budge. It's like it was telling me that I ought to forgive the poor thing and let it rest, as it fell into a state of a disrepair after only a relatively short period of time. And I never cared to have it fixed.

Minutes ago, before I started typing this entry, I was updating my sim contacts as I am now using a cheapskate phone I scavenged somewhere here. I managed to make the v3x work for one last time, just so I can transfer my phone contacts to the PC (the sim card couldn't hold any more). BOY IT WAS TEDIOUS. I hope Moto came up with software that can export my contacts properly to an Address Book file. CSV would be even better. The one that Moto has doesn't offer options for editing like if there are duplicates. So some of the numbers in my phone book got written over. Hay. How am I supposed to recover all of them?

If I ever do get a new phone soon (I do hope so. Haha), this is what I shall keep in mind:

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