Tech Review: I Drove Over My Blackberry Phone

I drove over my Blackberry 9900 phone last week. It was, so obviously, very accidental. It was dark, the phone was black, and my friend was wearing something black, and didn’t realize that the phone had fell out of the car. So I drove over it a couple of times, while trying to fit the car into a tight parking space.

Here are pictures of the, again so obviously, dead phone. The phone lay with its back on the road\gravel, which is what saved the screen and top with me driving back and forth all over it. The screen was ran over by the car’s rubber tyre, which explains its scratch free state. The phone was not dead per say, because you could still feel and hear it faintly vibrating. This gave me hope that it might, in some cosmic act of niceness, be fixed again.

The phone is covered by Wataniya Telecom warranty. But what happened to the phone was clearly an accident, of human abuse proportions; so it was definitely not covered by any warranty. However, their warsha were kind enough to direct me to another mobile-repair shop.

Here are pictures of the God sent shop. It’s called Smart System, and it’s located on Khalid Bin Al-Waleed St.  (beside the tiny make-shift 30-car parking lot). They were able to fix the phone in under 30 minutes, give me a 60-day warrantee, and only charge me KD30. How amazing is that? They were gona change the scratched battery cover for an extra KD5, but I felt I better keep it as a painful reminder to take better care of the phone.

Here are pictures of the phone “apres” fixing. It looks so new, like nothing had ever happened to it (if you ignore the scratched battery cover).

I highly recommend this shop for all your tough and left-for-dead mobile fixing needs. They know what they’re doing and how to fix stuff that look like they’re beyond repair. I’ve had the fixed phone for almost a week now, and its working perfectly and without a glitch.

Thank you Smart System. Thank you very much.