Mobile phone

I tend to confuse two of the courses that I follow at the moment.
The first one is Media Use in Organisations. This is the course for which I had to make this weblog.
The other course is called User Inteface Design. In that course we are taught about interfaces.
I shall shortly explain what an interface is. An interface is a means to an end. It is an intermediate, for example: the light switch makes it possible for me to turn on the light. Or that rotating buttons on a gas cooker make it possible for me to cook. English as a language makes it possible for an Italian and a Chinese person to communicate. There is an innumerable amount of interfaces.
The reason, of course, that I tend to confuse the twe courses is because User Interface Design generally teaches us about digital interfaces.
However, I don't really mind that I confuse the two, I think they complete each other.
That's the reason that I'm going to tell you about my interface-issue of the day.

Yesterday I checked my mobile phone for the time and I discovered that the screen had died. This is what it looks like:


So, I could still make and receive calls. However, I could not use my contactlist. I could also still see whether I had received an sms, and from whom, but I could not read it.

In my opinion, these things should not possibly happen. Unfortunately they do.

So I went to the Kijkshop, to have a look at new, simlock-free mobile phones. (If you do not know what a simlock is, please leave a message and I will explain :) )
They happened to have a mobile phone of which the box was a little damaged. Because of that, the phone was very cheap.
All right, I thought, I'll do it.

At home I saw that everything functioned fine, except for that I had no reach of the phone network (is that the correct translation?)...

... To be continued