Sad stick

The design of the buttons on the A1000 is a sad story. In a previous posting I commented about how slippery the joystick, or navigation button, is. Or, as I should rather write, was. A couple of days ago I found that the joystick button was gone. A search in a number of forums indicated that I had a real problem. Not only in the sense that spare buttons are impossible to buy. In addition some people had to pay for the repair - around 50 Euros. In other words - this particular button regularly falls off and neither Motorola nor 3 cares enough about how that affects their customers.

Well, a quick check in a 3 store gave the following. The phone must be sent to a repair shop. Intstalling a new button will take a week. Is it the year 2005? I am supposed to be without a phone for seven days because they "are currently out of phones to lend away". Forget that!

I will live on without the button. And, by the way, the joystick works better now. Maybe the phone will get contaminated by pocket dust and lint. We will find out...