New mobile

I got me a new Sony Ericsson K810i mobile phone (with 4GB M2 card) on Sunday. Blew up a 11.6K INR hole in my wallet.

You may think that I have a habit of buying mobile phones. But the problem this time around was that I lost my mobile phone last Tuesday (21st October).

I was at Hyderabad as part of my client visit (separate posts coming up) and on Tuesday evening, we had taken them out to see the Golkonda Fort. Somewhere between getting out of the car in front of the fort and entering the fort (a total time period of 10-15 minutes at the max.), I lost my phone.

The moment I realised that the phone was not with me, I used one of colleague's phone to call the cab driver and had him look around the Innova for my phone. He told me that he couldn't find it and asked me to call that number so that he could try locating it using the ringtone. I got another phone in parallel and called up my number.

That's when I heard the dreaded "the number you are trying to reach is currently switched off" message. It meant only one thing. Someone had taken my phone and had consciously switched it off.

I came out with one of my team members to help me look for the mobile outside the fort. We looked around the entrance area. Went to the shop where I bought ice-cream. Looked around the road. But to no avail. We just couldn't locate it. We went back to where our car was parked and looked again. Still no luck.

We had no choice but to give up the search after nearly an hour of running around. I then called up home and passed on this "happy news".

I loved the w810i phone a lot. I even bought a 4 GB card earlier this year, with the intent of sharing this card with my Sony digital camera as well. All gone now.

What has also gone is all my contact details, a bunch of pictures that I'd taken over the last couple of months and a whole lot of original songs. Not to mention, all my high scores in Quadrapop would now be illegally taken over by someone else!!!

So, I am still reconciling my contact details and adding them one by one. Luckily, yesterday was Deepavali and so many folks had sent out their wishes. And my response was invariably this:
"Thank you and wish you the same. BTW, I have lost my mobile contacts, so please let me who this is. :)"
People then responded with their names and I have stored them now. But the number of contacts I have at present would barely be 40-50% of what I had in my w810i.

It will take easily one more week for me to restore even 80% of the previous list of contacts. And only when that is done, would I be able to resume my SMS services! ;)