Posted on 26 August 2010.
You by now know my thoughts on the Sony Ericsson and the terrible time I’ve had with them of late. From failing products to their very confused PR agency that is now sending me PR material to promote their brand. After I met BlackBerry there was no other phone for me. So to help the process I’ve written Sony Ericsson a breakup letter. It’s the best way to do this sort of thing.
My ex model. We banged for a bit but she turned out to be quite kak.
My letter after the jump.
Dear Sony Ericsson
We’ve had such an amazing four years together. I still remember the first time I met you at that Italian restaurant. You were wearing that cheeky little orange number and you were just so much hotter than the Samsung flip model I was currently seeing. I knew then that I wanted you, even before I got to play with your MP3 function.
I waited out the last three months of my contract and picked you up from Fourways Mall, I was up there for work and you were available. Needless to say things started off well. You were so amazing, and the best phone I had ever been with. You’re picture quality was amazing and the online features (even back then) were pretty good.
I got into this whole ‘blogger’ vibe about a year into our relationship and you were always so supportive. You helped me gather content and chat to people easily. We did hit a few speed bumps on the way, nothing a few software upgrades couldn’t sort out though. Things carried on like that for the next two years. We were happy and in love.
When the time came for my upgrade I knew I’d stay with you, no other brand could satisfy me like you could, especially seeing as the new you had a 5mp camera and 3G. By now I was fully into the online vibe and being able to stay connected and gather awesome quality content in the forms of pictures and videos was so useful.
As happy as we were I think it was during this contract period that the cracks started to show. I believe sexual attraction is vitally important to any relationship and I’m not sure what changed but I found you started switching off more regularly and turning you on again became a laborious task. You would freeze up and become impossible to interact with. You started shutting me out.
Two years went by and though our moderate happiness was interspersed with periods of silence and software issues I looked forward to another Sony Ericsson upgrade. I wasn’t prepared to throw away years over some flashy model from Nokia. Plus, the new you had an 8.2mp camera, mass storage capabilities, a huge screen and full 3G – you were just getting better with age. Or were you?
It seemed with age came issues. Like any partner with a few years behind them you had obviously picked up some heavy baggage, possibly in the form of utterly useless software developers. You had slowed down so much that using basic functions like the address book became highly frustrating, never mind activating the camera – which after a while had to be done by opening the phone and going through the menu instead of using the ‘awesome’ touch screen function that never worked.
On that topic, you became completely oblivious to my touch, it was like I wasn’t even there. I tried the gentle approach, stroking your screen like only the most caring of lover can. When that didn’t work I got you drunk and pushed your screen buttons with all the grace of a 16-year-old adolescent attempting his first bra strap. Nothing worked.
Not even after I protected you that one night in Stellies when that dude grabbed you out of my hand and I had to fight to get you back did you respond to me. It was quite clear we were over. But contracts are contracts and we were stuck together for the next what felt like forever. All the potential in the world wasted due to useless software.
I thought I’d never find another phone again, I lost hope. But they say you find your love while not looking and that is exactly what happened. It just so happened that a BlackBerry was looking for a user at the very same time I gave up on us. We, the BlackBerry and I, found one another one winters night under a streetlight on a quiet street. It was love at first use.
Suddenly I had this intelligent, user friendly device that allowed me to do anything I wanted. Granted the picture quality is not as good as yours but it does the job, some things need to be sacrificed. Now that I’m basically an online god the Blackberry is the perfect partner. We are the new power couple.
I can manage all my Twitter needs with possibly the best Twitter software out there, including that found on PC. I have access to all my email accounts, I can blog and BBM saves me what small countries consider a fortune. BlackBerry and I are very much in love and I doubt I’ll be seeing anyone else in the future.
Your attempts to contact me were appreciated at first. Promises of new units were exciting but after you didn’t follow through on them your reputation of being unreliable was further cemented for me. I realise you may have been hurt but asking me to then review a new unit before sending it back for no charge was out of line. It’s over now I’m afraid. I want you to understand that.
I need you to understand that, because sending me PR emails asking me to promote your products to my readers, and packages with promo items encouraging me to use my fingers on you is completely pushing the boundaries. For one I can’t use my fingers on you because you refuse to work, and secondly we broke it off because you are shit. You cannot satisfy me needs anymore, do not expect me to promote you. Are you confused about this issue? If so I can elaborate?
I wanted this to be a clean breakup but you have forced me to do this. I’m sorry it didn’t work out, we had a lot of fun and shared a lot of memories but it’s finished. I’m happy with BlackBerry. All my needs are met all of the time. I’m sure you will find some other sucker to buy your crap.
Fondest regards and thanks for the memories.
Nash.
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