or at least, got in the way of saving my own life.
Last week I woke up in the middle of the night to atrocious chest pains which I unfortunately experienced already a couple years before.
I knew it instantly: I was having a heart attack.
I live alone and I am, in a sense, completely isolated as I happen to be an expatriate in Shanghai, with very poor spoken Chinese skills.
I reached for my phone to dial the number of a hospital which serves foreigners and employs 100% English-speaking staff.
Right, my phone. A Lumia Icon running Windows Mobile 10.
I launched the Phone app, a rather uncommon event I have to say, given how almost every bit of communication for me goes through Wechat/Whatsapp or plain emails.
I started dialing the number, and as I typed it and suggestions started to populate the screen, the app crashed.
It also left the Phone app's tile veiled in a worrisome pale color that anticipated further disaster.
My heart sunk (as it wasn't sinking already) as the phone rebooted after a couple seconds.
And as my teeth were grinding and my chest felt like exploding, I stared for an eternity of compounded eternities at the screen as it went through:
The Nokia logo
Verizon's infuriating splash screen
Windows' logo
Finally bringing me back to the home screen where I knew, I just knew the Phone app would crash again if I repeated my previous actions.
You know what they say, "What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome".
So, despite death literally hanging over me, I had to think quickly to how to work my way around yet another Windows Mobile 10 bug.
I was dying, and I had to care about Windows Mobile 10's quirks.
So I went to Outlook, wrote an email with the hospital's number to myself, received it, and clicked to get it dialed automatically. Aww.
Later, in my hospital room, I did it.
I did it, I tried to manually dial the number again, just to see if the crash would have happened again, perhaps sending me to the morgue rather than the E.R.
And I smirked as the app, and the whole phone, my expensive top of the line Lumia Icon, crashed again upon performing the most primitive task of them all.
I have to say it.
Windows Mobile 10.. you left me heartbroken.
Last week I woke up in the middle of the night to atrocious chest pains which I unfortunately experienced already a couple years before.
I knew it instantly: I was having a heart attack.
I live alone and I am, in a sense, completely isolated as I happen to be an expatriate in Shanghai, with very poor spoken Chinese skills.
I reached for my phone to dial the number of a hospital which serves foreigners and employs 100% English-speaking staff.
Right, my phone. A Lumia Icon running Windows Mobile 10.
I launched the Phone app, a rather uncommon event I have to say, given how almost every bit of communication for me goes through Wechat/Whatsapp or plain emails.
I started dialing the number, and as I typed it and suggestions started to populate the screen, the app crashed.
It also left the Phone app's tile veiled in a worrisome pale color that anticipated further disaster.
My heart sunk (as it wasn't sinking already) as the phone rebooted after a couple seconds.
And as my teeth were grinding and my chest felt like exploding, I stared for an eternity of compounded eternities at the screen as it went through:
The Nokia logo
Verizon's infuriating splash screen
Windows' logo
Finally bringing me back to the home screen where I knew, I just knew the Phone app would crash again if I repeated my previous actions.
You know what they say, "What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome".
So, despite death literally hanging over me, I had to think quickly to how to work my way around yet another Windows Mobile 10 bug.
I was dying, and I had to care about Windows Mobile 10's quirks.
So I went to Outlook, wrote an email with the hospital's number to myself, received it, and clicked to get it dialed automatically. Aww.
Later, in my hospital room, I did it.
I did it, I tried to manually dial the number again, just to see if the crash would have happened again, perhaps sending me to the morgue rather than the E.R.
And I smirked as the app, and the whole phone, my expensive top of the line Lumia Icon, crashed again upon performing the most primitive task of them all.
I have to say it.
Windows Mobile 10.. you left me heartbroken.