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It has been a meager 2 weeks, 14 days or 336 hours since I purchased the Samsung D900 and sang its praises. Now I must change my standpoint. My D900 decided to stop working today. I received a phone call and flipped the phone down and hey presto the screen went black. It stayed black, it’s black now…for good.

I decided to jump in my car and head to Sandton City to the Vodacare store. I knew what would happen. I would arrive, the ‘lovely’ person behind the counter would tell me that I didn’t qualify to receive a new phone (even though it’s only been 2 weeks, 14 days or 336 hours since I bought the damn thing). Then they would tell me that they were out of loan phones (which they were). Then I would bitch about that, they would stare at me as if they really wish someone would push them out of a 4 story building (that’s how they all look).

The only difference is that this time they made even bigger fools of themselves. Once I had given my brand spankingly new and stuffed up phone in to get repaired (reluctantly I might add), the ‘lovely’ women then told me that I would receive an SMS when my phone was ready. Prey tell me how on any creators Earth am I meant to receive and SMS from Vodacom when they have my phone AND THE DIDN’T PROVIDE ME WITH A LOAN PHONE… YOU IDIOTS.

I hate Vodacom and I always will. I hate Samsung temporarily because I have a sneaking suspicion that they are in cahoots with the service provides so that their phones break exactly one week after the 7 day return period ends. You bastards.

The pictures that the Samsung D900 takes seem to be of a very high quality. I am very happy with it all so far and will definitely be putting it to the test in the months to come. Below is an example of the quality:

Finally received my phone today. Vodacom made it very difficult for me this morning, but eventually I made it through and have my D900. The phone is fantastic. I have never found it easier to personalise, customise and update my phone via my laptop. The Samsung software is fantastic and is easy use. I can upload, download and synchronise to and from my phone to my laptop. I obviously have to move my birthday reminders from old to new phone and clean out my old phone before I can be completely happy with my upgrade, but that is par for the course.

Anyways, it’s almost that lovely day called present day - or was that Christmas? So to everyone who gives a fudge, have a happy happy. And to Jen from the Oh Boy! blog: Best of wishes for your brothers speedy recovery and I reckon 2007 will be incredible.

I am finally due for my phone upgrade on my vodacom talk 240 contract. It has been a long and happy two years with my Samsung D500. I have had no problems with it at all. So I am considering sticking with the Samsung range and will most probably going with the D900.

The D900 seems to be a great phone and has almost everything I am looking for. I was initially going to upgrade to the LG KG920 which has/had a 5 megapixel camera built in. Unfortunately Vodacom told me that they have discontinued the phone so I am unable to upgrade to it. I am a little bummed out about it but I think I can deal with D900 as a suitable replacement. Any suggestions let me know and I’ll look in to it before I purchase the D900 tomorrow.