Mannerisms

Every cloud has a silver lining. Having struggled for a week trying to get a 3G mobile phone to connect to the Internet, I take it back to the store.

Steve, in the store, tries to get it to connect. He can’t. “If only it were a Sony Ericsson, I could guarantee you, you would walk out of this shop with it working, 100 per cent, today”, says Steve, “My girl-friend has a Sony Ericsson 3G phone.”

It seems a no-brainer, even if the Sony Ericsson costs another 70 quid on top of the 100 which I paid for the pile of poo which has taken hours of my time, hours of my friends’ time, hours of the company’s IS department’s time and hours of my network operators’ technical help team’s time to fail to get working.

Steve is true to his word. In no time the phone is firing on all cylinders, connecting to the Internet, connecting to my office Intranet, acting as a modem for my laptop and connecting up for email.

If only I hadn’t bought the pile of poo, I’d have saved myself a week of frustration, I would have saved hours of wasted tim,. I would have saved others from my bad temper.

But there it is. There is no such thing as equality in the 3G phone world. One 3G phone is definitely better than another.