The Death of a PocketPC

The cracked screen of my deceased PocketPC

Today a sad thing happened. As I got into my car after church, my PocketPC apparently fell out of my pocket. And as I pulled out of the parking lot, my back tire ran over it. Of course, I had no idea I had dropped it, but 5 minutes later Earl pulled into my driveway and delivered the bad news.

The screen is cracked and it no longer recognizes when I touch it with a stylus or finger or anything. So it's unusable. It still works good enough to back it up to my hard drive, so I can easily switch to a new Axim. But now I have to go buy one, and I can no longer get my model (for which I already have tons of peripherals) from Dell.

We'd been through such good times together in the 8 months I had it...London, Germany, Vancouver, camping in Utah, New York, D.C., Austin, California. Sigh. Well, it's sad, but what can you do? Anyone want to buy some spare parts?

Amazingly enough, none of my flash card peripherals or sd cards were destroyed in the process.

Posted January 18, 2004 (08:32 PM) | Comments (1)