I am a true blue Nokia Communicator fanatic.  Eversince Nokia launched this kind of phone, I have never looked back to any other PDA-style cellphone.  I currently have an ailing Nokia 9500 which has served me very well.  Battle-worn and stripped down to to its most basic plastic casing (I have already scratched off all the faux metal finish), this 9500 has been my trusty aid -just as its predecessor, a 9210i, has done.

Last Thursday, I thought I saw the end of my 9500.  It was dropped for the nth time.  This time it slid off a table during a meeting as I was trying to pull another object.  I checked the phone and and saw that the interior LCD was not working anymore.  I tried the various tricks such as gently tapping it against my palm.  I even tried knocking on it and got no answer in return.  I said to myself, "This is it".  My greatest dilemna at that point in time was how to transfer all the vital data in it.

Despondent because I thought I would have to get a new one (the latest Communicator is at PhP 40k) , I walked back to the parking lot from the meeting.  Deep inside, I was just hoping...actually praying that some miracle would take place to revive this Communicator.  My walk back to the parking lot involved a cut through Greenbelt's fountain area where at 4:30 p.m. was already bustling with people.  One guy who was in such a hurry and walking on the oncoming direction suddenly sideswiped me causing my 9500 in hand to fall on the pavement.  The battery cover flew off as did the battery.  Even the memory card was about to dislodge itself out of the slot thereby indicating the intensity of the impact.

The guy just walked away without any apologies and I,....well I was left to just pick up the pieces. Reassembling the phone in that short walk to Greenbelt 2, I found out that the shock it had just received brought it back to perfect working condition.

Resurrected!

Conclusion : If your phone conks out, drop it on the pavement.  It will go back its perfect working order.