Okay, I know I bought a PDA not a phone, but still. I’m pissed off. I went to UNSW end-of-semester party tonight and didn’t want to be car­ry­ing some­thing the size of a quarter-kilo slab of choco­late with me, so swapped SIMs with another phone and took it.

Point of irri­ta­tion #1: None of my con­tacts are stored on-SIM. There is no way to STORE con­tacts on SIM that I have yet dis­cov­ered, only to import them off it. Hence, hell will ensue if I ever decide to change hand­sets (as it did when I moved from a CDMA hand­set to a GSM one a few weeks back… this point is fresh in my mem­ory, and still rather painful).

Point of irri­ta­tion #2: Because I swapped the SIM out, I left the phone with the SIM socket read­ily acces­si­ble so I could eas­ily replace it when I got home. This meant leav­ing the bat­tery out. PDAs can sur­vive a few min­utes on resid­ual charge (backup batt?) some­how, but appar­ently leav­ing it alone for… three hours (? I wasn’t out long because I’m work­ing tomor­row and… well, a few rea­sons) means that it’s prone to nuk­ing every­thing in ROM/RAM/whatever the heck it stores its stu­pid infor­ma­tion in.

For­tu­nately I’m pretty good with my back­ups (2/6/6 was the last). But I still lost a hand­ful of cal­en­dar items, more than a few mes­sages, one or two con­tact additions/modifications, my lat­est email sync info, and, more sig­nif­i­cantly, Bejew­eled high scores. I know, I know. I nearly threw it into a wall when I dis­cov­ered this. But that would have been unkind to the wall.

Tags: CDMA, GSM, irritation, PDA, RAM