This is starting to happen with increasing regularity.  I'm using the phone (a Nokia 3650) with the hands-free headset (the wired kind, not a Bluetooth thingy) and I finish my call.  I disconnect the headset but the phone doesn't realize it.  I still have the little headphones icon on the screen and the speakers and microphone don't work.  Effectively, my phone is useless.  The thing still works if I put the headset back in, but I don't always have my headset with me.  Even more annoying, occasionally the phone switches to headset mode when I'm not using the headset - in the middle of the call.  Suddenly I can't hear or say anything!  Occasionally the phone will realize that the headset is gone if I plug and unplug the headset several times.  This morning it didn't work and I since I left the headset at home, I had to run out at lunch to get a new one.  $20 for a new headset.  I must have plugged the headset in and out 50 times before I was forced to buy it.  I get in the car and try 5 more times and the damn phone turns off the headset! 

Anyway - if this keeps up I'll eventually be getting a new phone.  Of course, I want a cool phone, but I'm fighting the forces of brokeness - so I probably won't get what I want.  Damn technology!  Why does it have to be so expensive and yet so cool and desirable?  It's like socially acceptable (albiet geeky) form of crack!  While I was at the TMobile store I asked about fixing the phone.  $70 and they mail me a replacement phone for the one I have.  But $70!?!  That's like half (or 1/5th) of the cost of the phones I want!

-- Matt Ranlett