a friend of mine dropped her motorola razr V3 big time and snapped it in half and halves again ...
at this stage most people just look at the pieces and think about what they will replace them with?
having always been curious about clam-shell phones and having a secret admiration for the razr's garish keyboard and large screen i volunteered to extract her "precious - i can't get them anywhere else" numbers in the phone memory in exchange for the bits.
to cut a long story short i got all the replacements bits required from China at CNN .. they are a great site and reliable. after spending about A$80 for parts and some cool tools (including a #3,#4 and #5 Torx screwdriver set and a great mobile phone opening tool) and far too much time i had a complete and perfectly functioning phone.
as a long time user of Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones i have to admit falling immediately in love with the razr V3 user interface - it continually keeps pleasantly surprising me with its extra bits of functionality and depth of user control over the phone - this phone has had some serious thought go into it's user interface.
as well there are a huge number of software utilities and apps available online for tweaking the phone and its capabilities until you are blue in the face.
but what i really enjoyed about the whole exercise is that you can still fix some broken things these days, especially if they are popular enough to have spare parts and have decent engineering to start with.
as a kid who grew up building his first audio amplifier using germanium OC91 transistors at the age of 11, i have seen technology become increasingly difficult to maintain so it is nice to have the occasional win
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