(02-17-2015, 01:48 PM)Telluride Wrote: Speaking of cell phones:
- Well-used and loved but older smartphone suddenly has its touchscreen go out - the only button responding on it at all is the power button.
- Am Unhappy, but was unsatisfied with carrier anyway. Hope to get number transferred to better phone and plan.
- Phone rep says that it can't be transferred over unless the touch screen works for them to get into the settings. Am Incredulous.
- Check at Techshell. Told that repair is minimum $95. Phone is old enough that brand new phones twice as good cost maybe just over half that.
It's 2015, and they don't have a damnable App that can plug a reasonably good, supported smartphone, into their desktop machine, and retrieve the necessary info when the owner is right there to provide any ID and passwords needed? It's not as if my old phone was obsolete by any stretch of anyone's imagination.
A note on the data thing. Most smartphones encrypt all that information and lockout access to it if the screen is locked. But it seems silly that they couldn't pull out a SIM card if it's a GSM phone, or otherwise find the info if it's CDMA of some variety.
