Technology Gone Backwards

Much like the majority of the population,  I've become increasingly dependent on technology.  I absolutely enjoy the connection to the world at the reach of my fingertips.  Unfortunately as of late, I've grown to dislike my personal phone.  If you're wondering what type of phone I'm referring to, it's the blackberry storm.  I was weary of the fact this was the first generation model of its kind so I waited for as long as my old phone lasted.  I'd explored other options and decided I wanted to stay with my provider and give the storm a try.  Huge mistake!

Within a year, the phone has already been replaced twice.  The operating system constantly crashes on its own.  Just a couple of weeks ago, some of my friends informed me they were running into issues with their blackberries and I thought, "uhm, it's only a matter of time before mine acts a fool."  Well, I was right.  One morning last week I looked at the phone and I saw an error message that read "JVM Error 529", arg!  I googled said error and apparently it's due to a corrupt system.  Somehow after I threatened the phone to toss it out onto the river, it re-started itself.  Too bad in the midst of having a corrupt system, I lost all my pictures which isn't the worst that could happen considering all the issues I've had with this model.  I'm counting down the days I'm able to upgrade to something better or switch carriers. 

I can't even watch those droid and iphone commercials that highlight all the cool things those phones are able to do with their apps.  I'm afraid to download apps to the storm as I already know it could trigger an OS crash.  Forget the fact my phone is unable to do cool things on a daily basis, when its OS crashes, I can't even make/receive calls (which is the main purpose of any phone).

Tell me, is it too much to want a phone that works as a phone and also has the ability to do a few cool things?  Isn't this the reason as to why we pay to upgrade our technology, so we have the ability to do better things than what we did with the older phones?