Mobile Phones with Lemming-like Tendencies

tbh

I'm working on a project that will help people back up their contacts in case they lose their phones - some of the stories about how people lose their phones are mental - the lad who threw his old phone in the liffey *before* taking his sim card out, countless phone-down-the-toilet stories, people leaving phones in cabs, on planes and trains, mental stuff.

So, have you ever lost your phone in a weird and wonderful way?

bleg

fell into a stream

Karl Hungus

Nope, never.

ojewriej

ABout 2 years ago GF and the flatmate were going out, so had a place for myself first time in ages. I decided to have some quality me time, so got a bottle of gin, some tonic, and sat in front of a telly - weaponology marathon was on.

Girlfriend came back at 4 a.m., she found me lying fully clothed on a collapsed bed (myst have fallen on it), and my phone was in a half full (or half empty if you preffer) pint glass of gin and tonic. I didn't remember a thing.

Phone never recovered, but I managed to fix the bed at least.

Don't really drink on my own anymore.

humanji

tbh wrote: »

I'm working on a project that will help people back up their contacts in case they lose their phones

Don't most networks have this already? I know O2 do. And you can get software like the Nokia Suites that back up all data from your phone.

Not that you shouldn't try and develop something

tbh

don't worry, it's not my plan to become Alan Sugar or anything, just something I'm working on as part of something else....if you know what I mean

my own story happened when I was living in Sydney, I bought a new phone and was unwrapping it while walking home. As I was passing the rubbish chute in my apartment complex, I stopped to get the phone out of the plastic box, took the phone out, and proceeded to throw the phone down the chute while hanging on to the box. €150 literally down the chute, and I hadn't even turned the phone on

chopperbyrne

All my contacts are saved on the phonebook of the webtext section of www.mymeteor.ie.

I assume all other networks also let you save your contacts in a similar fashion?

Rb

I've never lost a phone.

I almost did once though, was on a night out and left it in the back of a taxi. Was so drunk I didn't even realise it until I'd woken up the next morning. Tried to ring it, it was off so I presume that was the end of that until I found out that the driver had rang my house, got the address and was dropping it over that evening.

One sim card did self-destruct on me before though, which was a fcking nuisance.

Wook

i had a motorolla for about 3 years and the fricking thing kept working
wanted it to break so i had a reason to buy a new one.
did try to loose it, but its hard when you think about it

Earthhorse

A friend of a friend worked in a mobile repair uhm facility and said that the majority of phones sent there was due to water damage, specifically guys with phones in their pockets pulling down their pants in the jacks and phones falling out of their pockets onto the wet floor.

Me? I've never lost my one and only mobile phone. Need to get a new one too. Damn thing only stores 22 texts at a time.

Never lost a phone. Only ever had them shattered into a million pieces. The christmas tree-esque nokia for example (can't remember the make, but the lights on the side flashed each time somebody rang). Had it on the fan of an oven once as it was the only place to get reception in my family home. I was in the sitting room when all I heard was a crash. Turned out I hadn't take vibration off and it fell 6 foot on to tiles.

Whoops

Sam Vimes

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Never lost a phone. Only ever had them shattered into a million pieces. The christmas tree-esque nokia for example (can't remember the make, but the lights on the side flashed each time somebody rang). Had it on the fan of an oven once as it was the only place to get reception in my family home. I was in the sitting room when all I heard was a crash. Turned out I hadn't take vibration off and it fell 6 foot on to tiles.

Whoops

3220?

lemon_sherbert

Haven't lost one of mine, though my cousin once dropped hers in the sink, and in the effort to dry it off, she decided to put it in the microwave... needless to say, neither the phone nor the microwave survived

connundrum

I remember having had my 8110 for about a week, and then going out to a 21st. We had a few beers too many and me and a mate ended up on main street with no one around and no sign of a taxi. I couldn't get any signal, because I lived in the bogarse of nowhere and because the phone was actually a heap of dirt. So I climbed a wall thinking that the elusive signal would be found up higher.

From the top of the wall, the phone fell and landed inbetween 7 or 8 wheelie bins. There was no chance of me getting down to the bins and back up again and we decided we'd come back for the phone the next day.

Next morning came and we couldn't remember which wall I'd scaled. Devo.

briantwin

I remember when i was in school a girl in my class got her phone wet from having it in her jacket while out in the rain. She tried to dry it by putting it in the microwave........................DUH!!

I've lost many many many phones.i always just start again, most of my friends would have the numbers i'd need to get back anyway.

Steak

my mate is an absolute nightmare with his phones.

after a few drinks one night he bet us all €20 that he could throw his phone accross the Liffey. he was far drunker than the rest of us so we all took him up on it, more for the laugh than anything else.

so there we all were on Crampton Quay and he made us cross to the other side of the Liffey so that we could "catch" the phone when he threw it to the other side. it was so funny because we could see him taking a huge run up then release the phone from his hand and it flew straight into the river.

needless to say he wasn't too happy about losing a pretty nice phone and also the fact that he had to fork out €60 to us for losing the bet.

there's been other times when he's left his phone in a taxi as insurance that he'd come back out of the house with cash that he'd borrowed from one of us but he just fell asleep on his bed. then when he rang the phone the next day the taxi driver wanted €50 or else he wouldn't give the phone back.

he also threw his phone into the Liffey another night out of nowhere, as you do.

JohnCleary

Rescuing someone from the river, jumped in with phone and (electric) car key in the pocket - That was an expensive one

Numbers were saved on actual phone, not SIM card. I thought nothing of it as I had a bakcup on the laptop - but i'd formatted the laptop a week beforehand d'oh

biko

Never lost a phone but a friend has gone through about 7 now, mostly left behind somewhere.

moco

I dropped mine down the toilet while in the middle of a conversation. My sister threw up on hers. Neither of them survived:(

ergonomics

When I was in school we had skirts with a shallow pocket on the side. Many girls went into the bathroom, hiked up their skirt and phone went straight into the loo. Never happened to me though.

leninbenjamin

i didn't lose the phone, but i lost a simcard on a night out before... no idea how that happened.

on another occasion i had bought a brand new phone. literally the day after getting it we were messing in the school yard (about 5 years back now) giving each other dead legs and stuff. along comes one guy who didn't really understand how dead legs work. he proceeds to sidekick me in the upper thigh (proper kung fu jobby) and completely smashed the screen as it was in my pocket. he paid for a replacement though .

apart from that never lost a phone, but I've had quite a few just mysteriously stop working.

carolmon

funny this topic came up, I was just looking for info on how to back up numbers on my phone.

Misplaced mine earlier this week, unfortunately I'd just come from a gym class and had my phone on silent...... never realised how much I relied on ringing it to locate it.....
anyway tore the house apart looking for it, nowhere to be found.

Discovered it last night in the green recycle bin (God knows why)

DavyD_83

I lose my phone EVERY time i go to a music festival (5 or 6 so far). 3 times, i've had it given back to me during the fests but i've always managed to lose them again before the end.
I've also dropped phones in pints, in river, toilet and they've all been fine once dry.

roberta c

I lost my first phone about six years ago, never knew what happened, just after a day or two(i was 13, no real need for a phone at that time in my life!) i noticed it was gone and never figured out when or where i lost it..

Then a few weeks ago my sister found it covered in mud in a field near my house, sim card was gone though! very strange indeed...

Schism

Never lost a phone myself but my sister can't hold onto them. She's had them stolen, left behind, driven over, dropped in the bath and some just stopped working.

She's not blonde but sometimes I wonder if god made an allowance for her. :pac:

The Real B-man

Got Chopped up by lawnmower :mad:

Susannahmia

I think I will win this. Here's a summary of the last 18 months.:rolleyes:

Dropped first one down the toilet,

The second just fell off the bath onto the floor and broke,

Third, fell out of my pocket as I was getting into the car and my boyfriend drove over it.

Fourth, turned around for a minute while packing up to leave a lecture hall and someone robbed it!

Fifth, decided to buy the latest model, stupid thing was faulty from the start.

Sixth, drunkenly lent it to a stranded "American tourist" who wanted to ring her hostel. I had decided it was rob proof as it was so scratched and the cheapest model, I was wrong! Realised an hour lather that she had not come back!:o

Seventh, Dropped it so many times the speaker broke.

Eight, fingers crossed

Mossy Monk

I lost it the other night. It was under the bed. I found it by calling my mobile number with Skype.

Sam Vimes

Susannahmia wrote: »

I think I will win this. Here's a summary of the last 18 months.:rolleyes:

Dropped first one down the toilet,

The second just fell off the bath onto the floor and broke,

Third, fell out of my pocket as I was getting into the car and my boyfriend drove over it.

Fourth, turned around for a minute while packing up to leave a lecture hall and someone robbed it!

Fifth, decided to buy the latest model, stupid thing was faulty from the start.

Sixth, drunkenly lent it to a stranded "American tourist" who wanted to ring her hostel. I had decided it was rob proof as it was so scratched and the cheapest model, I was wrong! Realised an hour lather that she had not come back!:o

Seventh, Dropped it so many times the speaker broke.

Eight, fingers crossed

http://www.o2online.ie/wps/wcm/connect/O2/Home/Personal/Phones/Other%20services/Insurance

the other networks and third party operators offer something similar

bluto63

Got a little drunk while in Spain and I'm not sure what happened. Either it fell out of my pocket while sitting on the beach or else it was pickpocketed. The latter would've been very easy to do that night...

Cool_CM

My old 3210 had been throught the wars but still worked, it had been dropped too many times to count, rolled over by a car(Ford Fiesta) and crushed by a bus door.
In the end a knacker in my class stole it when i wasn't looking, it just wasn't the sendoff it deserved

old boy

me trusty ole 6310i was been with me so long, the oh want to buy me a new one, says it is in desperate need of replacing, i just say if it work etc

Jello

A bitch of a teacher took my phone off me yesterday cos it went off in class. Most would just say put that away, but no, not this one. Won't have it back for two weeks. :mad:

star-pants

About 3 yrs ago - Mine fell into a rock pool on my last day of mapping... grrr... fell out of my top pocket (which I'd forgotten to zip up) as I was leaning over making measurements

Dinter

Had one of the Nokia phones out of the Matrix and was out one night and clicked the switch to get it to slide open and the lower half shot off around 50 miles an hour across a pub.

Was like something out of James Bond. If I'd been aiming it at someone it would have had to be pryed out of their forehead.

Nokia replaced it though.

Dave!

Haven't lost one yet, *touch wood*

I usually check it when I'm taking a p*ss though, so think I'm gonna stop doin that now..... ¬_¬