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I never buy spare batteries any more. I carry a USB charger since I am almost always near a PC. I also have a cigarette lighter to USB adaptor into which I can plug the USB charger should I be in a hire car or someone else's car.
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Posted: 2004-04-02 09:28:20
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well look at you with your cables and stuff!
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Posted: 2004-04-02 09:31:41
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When I bought my P900 from CPW it was only one left in shop & had been opened but everything was still sealed.
I checked everything & found battery to only be a 1000mAh so raised the issue & they pleaded ignorance but found a new sealed 1260mAh in the draw
Coincidence or what.
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Posted: 2004-04-02 10:33:00
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Still not resolved, hopefully tonight though. I'll make sure l keep you all updated. Rest assurred that the blighters aren't going to get away with it!
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Posted: 2004-04-02 19:09:00
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Any news yet?
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Posted: 2004-04-02 20:01:57
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Talking of wires: I bought 150m of ethernet cable yesterday!
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Posted: 2004-04-03 12:25:14
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l didn't manage last night so hopefully l'll get along today.
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Posted: 2004-04-03 15:12:00
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I went off to the CPW today to ask them about my battery situation, the answer I got was not quite as good as I had hoped for. To cut a long story short, the charming sales assistant who kept us waiting, without explanation, for around fifteen minutes told me that the phon will need to go back to SE.
Well I am not at all keen on this course of action, but I suppose I shall just jolly well have to.
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Posted: 2004-04-04 21:12:36
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I finally managed to get into the CPW yesterday to ask them about the situation regarding my battery; little did I know that the claustrophobic hole I had entered would become my home for the next two and a half hours.
I waited patiently as the lone branch manager desperately tried to serve the people in front of me as a laptop wielding Sagem rep punched away at a keyboard. Finally another member of staff appeared from the back of the shop and asked me if he could help. Feeling that things had taken a nice turn and that I was in safe hands I explained my dilemma and watched as the chap's face took on lovely expression best described as a mixture of puzzlement and weary boredom. Having explained to him that there was in fact nothing wrong with my phone, I finally managed to convey that I wanted a new battery, the standard battery that comes with a P900, not a P800.
The chap then proceeded to stand back and um and ah for a few moments before admitting that he didn't actually know who to phone to get the problem resolved. Feeling my strength beginning to sap I prepared myself for a long haul. Finally the chap managed to get someone on the phone who gave us the gift of time (and boredom) by placing us on hold for the better part of half an hour, during which time I was asked by the chap 'dealing with me' to hold the phone while he served an irate slack jawed teenage girl who's grasp of mobile technology was about as firm as a bowl of jelly that's just been put through a blender.
The chapess on the other end of the phone was apparently South African, and the Gods smiling on me that afternoon decided that the CPW chap should have a loathing for South Africans. I was treated to a rundown on why South Africans are the worst people in the world, this was whilst a black lady stood in the corner looking at phones and, no doubt, picking up on the conversation and imagining that we meant her. Trying to save the situation I leapt in with a desperate gambit, I proceeded to say that I had seen companies were there were lots of Germans and Australians working, thus indicating that lots of foreign people work for companies in Britain and thus demonstrating that I was making light of the CPW chap's comments. I didn't have time to guage the lady's reactions as when I turned round she was gone. Now I don't think the CPW was being racist, its just that his timing wasn't the best, he was including white South Africans in his rant too.
The shop now being devoid of all intelligent life, the Sagem rep barely counting had fled long ago, and my own brain had began to shutdown for lack of stimulus (the CPW staff don't count do they?), I propped myself warily against the counter as the CPW chap proceeded to tell me that the handset would need to be replace din its entirety, not just the battery, a small glimmer of hope beckoned as I thought that my ordeal must now be over, alas, it wasn't.
The CPW chap tried putting the order through the till, whilst making various 'funny' comments and generally trying to amuse me with his ramblings. I smiled and joined in the chat, only then, realising that I had been 'assimilated' into the mind numbing existence that is the CPW!
My initial jubilation at the matter being resolved turned to horror as the chap couldn't get his computer to work properly, the order being wrong or some such rot. I was getting desperate now, and even the branch manager's 'diplomatic' engagement with a group of Chinese street traders outside the shop failed to alleviate my boredom. I was now about as stable as an Italian taxi driver stuck behind two nuns in a Lada at a red light and the situation was about to take a turn for the worse.
The branch manager summoned up all his training and experience to help the chap who was 'dealing with me' and promptly said, after a two second glance at the screen, that the chap had best phone technical support. My mind was a haze now, filled with images of irate teenagers, Chinese peddlers, bored Sagem reps and inane 'hold music', but still I managed to hold on, reminding myself to keep a stiff upper lip. The phone conversation with technical support consisted of very little actual talking and rather a lot of standing around listening to silence, at least there wasn't more inane music I thought, that was until the CPW chap proceeded to start up another vaguely interesting conversation, with little else to do and being so desensitised to the CPW that I was considering asking for an application (Don't worry, a stiff scotch and a cigar snapped me out of that), I joined in the conversation.
I had lost all track of time by now, I was imagining how the world outside might look now, would mobile phones still be in use? what geological cycles had come and gone? was it still acceptable to wear jodhpurs if one isn't actually riding? Finally technical support answered and we were on our way, well we would have been if the CPW chap hadn't started up a conversation with the man on the other end of the phone (maybe it was a woman, then again I didn't care at this point).
Finally I was handed a piece of paper with a number on it, I was told that a new P900 would be waiting for me in the shop tomorrow and that I should phone that number to check whether it was in or not.
Few people can truly comprehend how I felt as I stepped outside into the daylight, prisoners of war perhaps or hostages after a long siege, but what I can tell you is that Glasgow's nicotine infused air has never tasted so sweet. I skipped merrily down the street glad to be alive and rejoicing in my new found freedom. I sit here now a free man, but a man who must journey back into that dark slack jawed infested hell tomorrow in order, like Prometheus bringing fire from the Underworld, to bring power and life to my P900.
I shall let you all know what happens tomorrow, that is if I emerge half as sane as I am now (which wouldn't really leave very much sanity now would it?).
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Posted: 2004-04-08 13:30:22
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I returned to the shop full of hope, excited to, at last, have a proper P900 battery, but of course things are never that simple. The replacement phone they had ordered had a 1000mAh battery! It took me a few minutes to explain that this was the very reason i wanted an exchange in the first place. I now have to go back yet again, whenever they phone me, which I'm told should be this Wednesday (today) or when pigs are finally granted light aircraft liscenses, whichever is sooner.
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Posted: 2004-04-14 16:50:33
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