Charging...Charging...Charging...

Which has been what our L'Amour's been going through the past few months whenever we needed to charge the mobile up. It irked us slightly as every time we plugged in the mobile to charge, it goes *beep* [Charging]... *beep* [Charging]... *beep* [Charging].

Now when it initially happened we wondered about it but it wasn't a big issue. After all, we normally leave it to charge overnight and we'd be sleeping through the near-endless beeping.

For the Wesak Weekend we decided to leave it charging while we used the Nok7710, only to discover when we returned on Monday that our L'Amour's battery levels were still low. :S Nearly two days plugged in and it wasn't charging? 'Course, we came to the conclusion that the mobile charger port's connection was faulty. So Tuesday we headed down to the Nokia Care Centre in KL to have it looked at.

Nokia Care Centre was crowded. :S Took us over an hour before it was our turn, thankfully a few Layton puzzles kept us occupied. :D

So we were told that they'd take a week before we would get a quotation for repairs, which we didn't mind as we still had a couple of other mobiles to use - the Nok7710 for main usage and the Nok7650 for old times' sake. We still like using the Nok7650 but it took a bit of getting used to midi ringtones.

Sigh. The poor Nok7650. The sliding mechanism's slightly loose and a couple of buttons take a bit of pressing. And tisn't our fault too! But we don't hold it against the people whom we loaned the Nok7650 to (when we moved on to the Nok7710), plus we've also been told by Mitch recently that the sliding mechanism for the Nok7650's not that good.

Using the Nok7650 was rather fun - there were old contact details that made us wonder, "Okay, has this fler changed his mobile number yet?" and we even had YMLau's (and some others) old Vodafone number! Calling people had us wondering sometimes if we have the correct number, heh.

Then yesterday we got a rather dodgy text:

ur phone is ready 4 collection,pls bring the jobsheet together.frm nokia

Ho-kay...that's as dodgy as it comes so far. We were expecting a call, or at least a much better written text. Not some unprofessional text-shortcut filled unpersonalized text! Say, a template like this:

Dear [Mssr Janvier], your [phone] is now ready for collection from the Nokia Care Centre. Please bring the jobsheet when you make your collection. Thank you.

Can?

Anyways - we called up today to verify their text and it seems that there's nothing wrong with L'Amour, thankfully (we had not backed up our data and L'Amour should have the updated contact lists among all our gadgets :P). So now we have to see if the problem lies with the charger, or with the battery.

Both options don't look cheap. Sigh. While we're still waiting for the new iPhone, we want a clamshell to use especially when we want to text while driv can only use one hand!