Most cellphone lately are only good for a year, MAYBE two. So generally, if you -think- you need a new one, chances are you really do need a new one.

So sorry about your luck.

Wow I wish they worked like my old Motorola flip phone. Until it stopped charging this year, I had had it working just about perfectly since 2005. It was tough to text since it just had a numeric keypad, but I like it like that!

Only one year? Good Lord! Mine is about... 3-4 years old now.

Mine is 15 years old... I still use my Nokia 3310.

But hey if it works for what you need it for, why replace it with something expensive with a ton of functions you won't even use?
Unfortunately doesn't stop people making fun of me...untill I bludgeon them with my phone :p

Mmhm. Most of the "smart phones" now are not meant to last. They're built as cheaply as possible for profit margins, and once they're defective (warranties people!) if you can't pay to repair it they offer "deals" for a new phone and contract.

The last good phone I owned was the Motorola Razr, which for as simple as it was it worked for calling and texting...and with-stood my rough teenage life (falling out of pockets, throwing, dropping, water, etc).

+LIKE!!!!!

Bludgeon.. nice.

I agree though.. mine isn't a smart phone, but it does have a slide out keypad. I much prefer that to one of the smartphones with an on screen keyboard.

Had one of those, pretty much unbreakable but at some point it started spontaneously powering down mid-call.

If you want a smartphone for little money, might be worth looking for used Blackberries. If you can do without those features, there are quite a few old style mobiles around: Two+ weeks without recharging!

Depends on what you use your phone for, I guess. Mine (1st gen Motorola Razor) is nearly 10 years old. To this date, it meets my needs quite nicely.

*hugs* Poor Goldy :( I've had similar things happen..

My boss just recently dropped his off a mountain while visiting Colorado. Whoops...

Any idea what you're looking at as a replacement?

...yeow!

And holy crap cellphones are stupidly expensive.

Hopefully the SIM Card wasn't damaged; if you can find a used model of your current phone or the like you might be able to save a little bit of money and just transplant the sucker.

It missed the SIM card, and I have an old phone it works in until I get a proper replacement.

Ouch! That sucks, but it's a danger when using nail guns.

That's almost as bad as a friend losing his out of his buttoned shirt pocket. Only his bounced on the dock and into the bay. He got to watch it sink about four feet then explode from the battery.

When it's misfortune, seems those one-in-a-million shots happen nine-times-out-of-ten...

Sorry to hear about the unwanted costs.

I want the picture of the phone to show folks here at work... I was I had a spare the I could get to you quickly.

My boss took a picture of me using a hacksaw blade to cut the nail so that I could get it off. I'll see if I can get that photo.

That is no fun, I'm sorry! I miss the days when cellphones lasted longer. I've had my current smartphone almost 2 years and I'm trying to drag the little buggers lifespan out, but it's battery is being a little beast and I commute long distances and don't want to be caught sans phone. :/

Indeed, these days pretty much everything is built to break as soon as the warranty runs out so you have to buy a new product.

I'm still using my 15 year old nokia 3310 and aside from the battery having been replaced recently i've had no problems with so far and it's gotten wet and dropped more times than I care to remember, it even took a tumble down a flight of stairs once.

If that happens with today's smart phones you'd have to get a new one since it's either in a million pieces or the screen gets shattered.

well, you have a nokia. those things are stronger than superman.

Oh, I don't know about that. I've dropped my smartphone from heights of 4+ feet onto the cement floor at work, and so far nothing has happened. Then again, I also sprang for the Platinum brand protective case for it; that might be the only reason the phone is still intact. XD

Murphy's law perfectly executed. O.o

Least it was just the phone and not your hand or foot, still sucks about the costs though =/

Was it a touch-screen phone? If so...

http://xkcd.com/1372/

Hehe, you would have to have two Samsung phones nearby for you to be able to use it.

If you get increadibly lucky you can find a deal that lets you get a phone for free. I got mine from Verizon, normally $200s but they were having a sale on the model for $50, with a $50 rebate. If you look around I'm sure you can find somethin goldie ^^

i diont know how it works in the USoA but since it happened at work wouldnt your employers Insurance jump in?

Not a chance!

"How it works in the USA" wouldn't really help him anyway, since Goldfur's Australian.

Generally, though, the employer's insurance wouldn't kick in for damage to personal property.

I feel your pain there, Goldfur. It seems that modern cellphones aren't really built for durability, regardless of what happens; some of them, you can give them a mean look and they'll break. I miss my Nokia 3210 from the 90's. That thing took some serious beating. I remember I even threw it against a wall one time as hard as I could (I think I had an unhappy phone call or something) and I put a nice sized dent in the drywall but the phone suffered no damage. It didn't even turn off, nor did the case even crack. Also, it seems these days that the "smarter" phones get, the dumber they act.

Clears throat@ Nailed it! Runs off giggling@

Oh, the perversity of inanimate abjects and time. Sorry to read of the demise of your cell phone and I hope you have the situation remedied in time for your trip. I take it the cell phone number you recently gave me is now moot? Could your possibly recover the data stored in the phone? Shortly after moving to Pasadena, I "drowned" my cell phone I had for the past five years.

My cell phone number is still valid. Even if the SIM card had not survived, which it did, I would have been able to transfer that number to my new phone. I have already purchased a replacement, and due to the wonders of modern technology, all my data and settings were restored from the cloud. The one and only thing that did not get set back to it's final setting was a game that I was playing. That had to be started all over again.

Hehe, I once had a phone accident way back in the early smartphone days (pre-iPhone). Manager had me get up into the rafters and do something, phone slipped out of pocket and manager just shrugged at me when I glared at em. That screen was so cracked.
For phones I normally replace em every 12 months taking advantage of how shitty the US market is. Good unlocked smartphones that work across a lot of carriers are difficult to grab in the high end. So I just buy one overseas for import or go through a developer program and sell it 12 months later when the new one comes out and the phone retains at least half if not 3/4ths of its original value. No contracts, no subsidy premiums, and its normally less than $100 to upgrade each year. Two years I actually made money. heck unlocking iPhones used to have a $200+ premium to em... thats how I used to screw AT&T every year when they were exclusive... granted the original I had on T-Mobile. ^.~
Speaking of phones I still have my optus sim card from when I was over in your country. Wish I could have stayed longer tho. Still sad I didn't see any Kangaroos in the kangaroo exhibit. :(

Aww you should have used your phone to take a pic of-.....oh wait....nvm <:3

I may have a spare one I can send too you.

Could be worse... I know of a co-worker who left hers on the rear bumper of a company truck. She couldn't find it at the motel where the crew was staying, but found it two days later when they were heading home, still smashed to bits on the road where it had fallen. She used it as an excuse to get a new and upgraded phone.

oh my word! your phone was literally nailed... cripes that sucks. Well, could be worse.at least it was only a phone. Hope things go well with the replacement *huggs*

I know I shouldn't laugh, but hot damn that made my day.

Depending on your needs, a low-end smartphone's about NZ$150 (about AU$138). Non-smartphones can be had for as little as $25.

Not sure what if any phone would survive what happened accidentally. Here's hoping you can find a good deal on a phone that meets your needs

*winces* Ouch... I'd send you one of my old ones, but by the time it got THERE, you'll be HERE.

If you're not the type of person that lives on the phone (Yapping/Texting Galore, with a side of excessive internet usage), I can recommend a phone for you.

Walmart Flip Phone ... about $15 .. makes good phone calls.. battery lasts 4 days


=^.~=

I have a flip phone that I use exclusively for in the U.S. of A., complete with my own American cell phone number. It does what I need it to do when I'm in America. After I got burned a few years back with roaming charges, I figured that it was a lot cheaper maintaining a permanent phone account for my trips to the States.

Ouch! That stinks big time. If you shop around, you might be able to get a free phone with a new 2-year contract. That's how I was able to afford my phone a few years ago. Granted, the only reason I went smart phone is for the square app, but still. The used idea is good, too.

I hope you find something! *hugs*

LOL . I know it sucks..but reading about that accident has made my day..what a perfect You-Tube video that'd have made ! Sorry it cost so much, but at least you didn't loose your data.