- Sorry about your phone! Click to see the brokenness enlarged.
On Monday evening* in the street near 15th and Republican. It is a Samsung Galaxy, and as you can see, it looks like it got run over (not by me, I was on my bike).
Anyhow, if you want to get the thingamajig out of it that has your phone numbers, send an email and we’ll set it up.
*Sorry it took so long, but at least now you know its fate. I’m trying to accrue good cell-phone karma—I returned another phone recently to a very pleased lady after talking to a bunch of her relatives on it—because the last and only time I lost my phone, a cabbie did extortion on me for $20 to bring it back. I would’ve tipped him or paid the fare from where he was to my house or picked it up at the taxi dispatch place, but he straight-up demanded $20 for its release. Is this a thing? It seemed really bogus.
my stepdaughter lost her purse in the UDistrict or Fremont last month, and it was turned in, intact, to the Po. she got all her money back. THAT is some Seattle awesome.
I think the Samsung Galaxy is a Verizon phone. Does it boot? Any signs of life? Take it to Verizon, they’ll plug it in, see if its one of their phones, or current customer. They’ll do a back up, contact the customer, if they have insurance, they’ll be able to pick up a new shiney phone the next morning with all the contacts in place.
The owner of the phone may not be a SLOG Reader, so dont wait, just take it to Verizon.
If its not a Verizon phone, then it could be ATT or T-Mobile, both of which support SIM cards, so you might be able to pry the case open, reveal the SIM card, which should tell you the carrier, then go to that carrier and let them do the rest.
Or you can just wait for someone to read about this, then contact you … which could be a few days or a few weeks, by then they will have already gotten a replacement phone. If they have security on the phone and if its still working, they’ll be knocking on your door soon.
@1 for the Seattle win.
Don’t try to swap out the SIM card in your Win7 phones, those have some awesome We-Own-Your-Soul-And-SIM protection on them.
Wait a couple of weeks for the hack.
UPDATE! It is a T-Mobile phone—it says right on it under all the crackled glass. If no one emails, I’ll take it to the T-Mobile store on Pike right off Broadway.
It looks like a cheap Iphone copycat
not cheap at all.
That reminds me though, if anyone’s missing a yellow japanese 10-speed, hit me up.
I’m missing my youthful innocence.
Lost it near the Billionaire’s Tunnel.
Wasn’t that the plot of an episode of 30 Rock?
I had to pay a $10 “tip” to some random guy who found my girlfriend’s phone once. He seemed pretty down and out.
Android contacts are kept on the internet at contacts.google.com. Not in a sim card.
Oh how I wish it were my phone.
I had to pay a cabbie 10 bucks when I left my first cell phone ever in his taxi one drunken night. It seemed like that would have been about the cab fare from where he was coming from, so I gladly paid it. 20 bucks seems a little steep…