[Today: 6 miles on trail at Devil’s Backbone near Loveland, CO]<\/p>\n
My wife and I experience conflict regarding cell phones.<\/p>\n
For some reason, her phones don’t seem to last very long.\u00a0 She doesn’t drop them or abuse them, but she uses them a lot, like hours every day.\u00a0 About a year ago she was having problems with her phone so she went in to the Verizon store.\u00a0 I didn’t go.\u00a0 I was surprised when they declared her phone a brick and sold her a new one (including a big charge to “pay off” the broken phone).<\/p>\n
This week, while we were vacationing, her 13 month-old iPhone got in a cycle of continuous rebooting.\u00a0 Ok, so I was busy with another project and she went off to the Verizon store.\u00a0 Guess what, de ja vue, they declared it a brick and made her buy a new phone.\u00a0 So in less than 2 years we’ve peeled off cold cash for two new phones, and not cheap phones either.<\/p>\n
I’m not happy about that.\u00a0 And she doesn’t react well to my being unhappy.<\/p>\n
So I really need to come up with some kind of extended warranty or insurance or something that will help ease the surprise bash-over-the-head for $400-$500 to pay off a bricked phone.<\/p>\n
It’s not her fault, that part we both agree on.\u00a0 The phones are just not very good.\u00a0 And the last one was a gold-plated Apple iPhone that should not turn into a door stop at 13 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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