Its Dead Jim

It hasn't been a great week electronics-wise in Radersville (as opposed to Radersburg). Last weeks crime sprees left me mostly gadget-less (even though a quick trip to FutureShop fixed that to a certain degree). To finish out the week, my cellphone has finally bit the dust.
It was a great little unit form and feature wise, but I've had to resucitate it quite a few times with spare parts from eBay and a little bit of ingenuity. But this time, I think its terminal. Sometimes the screen works, some times it doesn't. Sometimes the speaker works, some times it doesn't. Sometimes it finds the SIM card and sometimes...well, you get the picture.
I tried to press my old unit into service, but its gone flaky as well - which leaves me mostly without a phone. Agh.
I'm not particularly hard on this stuff, so its kind of disappointing that these didn't lasting longer. I mean, these electronics cost hundreds of dollars - one would think that they wouldn't fall apart after only a few years. Are all handsets as flaky as the Finnish ones?