Public service announcement: Manually putting in contacts into a new phone is not fun. Find a data transfer cable. That is all.
In a serious note, electronics fucking hate me this summer. First, my laptop battery dies. Then my Xbox RRoD’d. The latest in my string of unfortunate events is that my phone’s directional pad and volume control stopped working. Sure, I could have used it without those features, but it would have been a pain in the ass.
So I returned it to Best Buy, where I got a free exchange. I do feel sorry for the lady behind the counter. I bet she had to go through at least twenty screens just to exchange the phone. I was at the service desk for probably fifteen minutes. :-(
Did you get the same make/model?
Aye, I did.