Ok, so my first smart phone ever is the phone I currently have. I was so stoked to be getting the Blackberry Storm 1. I mean how cool is an all touch smart phone? I excitedly picked up my phone at the local verizon wireless store, stoked over the idea that I'd be able to check all my e-mails from one place, surf the net, edit word documents for school and even have really sweet chat clients like Blackberry Messanger. Two weeks go by and I am loving the phone. One day arrives when a group of friends and I are hanging out for the first time in years so I decide what better opportunity to take a picture of the reunion so I could post in on Facebook. I take out my phone, click on the photo button and what's this? Incredibly blurry picture? Hmmmm...ok that's odd, let me shut down the camera and try again...What? Still blurry? Okay, maybe I just need to do a battery pull...Blurry again! Crap! I take the phone in to my Verizon wireless store and explain the problem to which they say some of the phones had an issue with the frame sticking over the lock button which causes blurring in the lense. They offer to to replace the phone for me and all is happy in the world again.
Fast forward 4 months later and I notice that my phone tends to slow down...A LOT. This problem slowly got worse to the point it would freeze up and I would have to battery pull. Before taking it to the store (again) I try checking online to see if it's a common problem. I find out other people are describing the same issue I'm having...what the hell is a memory leak? So the next time this happens I check my memory to see what's going on. Hmmmm...2mb available app space? But the phone had 28mb available this morning? What did I do? I opened up VZW Navigator once, but closed it down...surely that couldn't be the problem. Once again I battery pull and this seems to solve the problem but only momentarily. From then on, every time I open up ANY kind of app the memory drops almost to 0 causing a need to reboot. I figure having to do a battery pull once in a while isn't the end of the world so I suck it up and take it. Then it happened...I tried a battery pull and when it was time for the phone to start up...nothing. Totally blank screen. I try another battery pull once, twice, three times and nothing...NOTHING...WTF??? The phone has officially died when all I did was open up an app. I take the phone to the Verizon store to have it replaced (for the second time in less than a year's time) and figure that that problem won't be happening again...
But you know what? This 3rd "new phone" is ALSO giving me memory leak issues! DROID PLEASE SAVE ME!!!