Smart Phone Hell

So, my stupid 1 year old Samsung Galaxy S decided to do the black screen of death on me upon reboot. Not like I haven't not had issues with it lately, but equally I couldn't remove Instagram the application which was causing my phone to crash a lot, because "apparently" my phone was no longer "compatible", even though it was on Android 2.2 and had all the other specs required to run the thing, yet market wouldn't let me update!!! More to the point Instagram never did respond to me about what I should do (Frankly there customer service is truly terrible, not even a holding response) How the hell could I uninstall it if it wouldn't even let me update?

Seriously I'm probably more peeved by the fact that the Android system does not have an easy built in way to back up contacts and I have unfortunately lost the majority that I didn't have installed elsewhere. Practically the only thing that I managed to salvage was my some 1000 photograph's (a good thing as I am photographer). Officially not liking the interface of gingerbread but I thought what the heck I've got nothing to lose.

To be blunt, I find it a rather "peculiar" coincidence that my father's phone of the same model which was only just older than mine did the exact same thing last month, I do wonder if "Android" or "Samsung" do this deliberately so people go off to buy a new phone. Either that or the way the software uses the hardware corrupted something important, either way how is a phone that effectively packs in after a year so you have to factory reset a sell-able device? It is clearly defective in some shape or form so seriously how did they not notice this flaw?

And before people going telling me to buy a competing brand such as an Apple iPhone or a Blackberry, things on there side are not all it seems either. I know from peers that an iPhone can get wiped if the iTunes messes up and loses everything and not to count the other countless issues caused by the technology Apple used (god only knows how many times I have replaced the battery on my 5 year old iPod, but least to say I have lost count). Blackberry often encounters similar problems to the Android system and if the Blackberry server goes down then you have no net nothing.

Least to say unless this one year reset thing gets fixed I am unlikely to buy an Android phone or for that matter any Smart Phone again. After all there's just too much too lose, and frankly maybe carrying a phone and a laptop would cause less technological issues, in the sense of less eggs in one basket...