The latest eco-friendly and bio-degradable mobile phone accessory range from Mint+
This afternoon.
Irish brand Mint+, one of Ireland’s leading providers of pre-owned mobile phones and eco-friendly mobile phone accessories, has launched a brand-new range of eco and sustainable phone accessories, including snazzy phone covers (above).
Iam Collins writes:
The latest offerings from Mint+ includes eco-friendly and bio-degradable drop proof phone covers, air pod cases, lighting cables, chargers and much more.
A recent survey by Mint+ on Irish mobile phone habits found Irish people are accident prone with mobile phones,
90% of respondents have broken or cracked their mobile phone screen, while 42% have dropped their phone down a toilet!
The fridge was the most common random location where respondents have found their phone, while car engines, public bins, and even on top of an elephant were other locations.
Asked if you could pick a well-known person to have in your phone contacts, Normal People star, Paul Mescal,
Leather Jacket Guyand Irish actors Amy Huberman and Jamie Doran were among the Irish favourites.To celebrate Mint+ new arrivals, We have a €50 Mint voucher (yes, fifty big ones) to giveaway to a Broadsheet reader.
To enter, just tell us your finest tale of mishap involving a phone?
Lines MUST Close at MIDNIGHT!
Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
I was leaving a gaff party late one might with a group of friends and we decided in our drunkenness to take the stairs down from the top-floor apartment rather than the lift. I pulled out my phone to call a taxi while a friend energetically told us an anecdote with much descriptive flailing of his arms.
The phone of course was knocked out of my hand as I was unlocking it, sending it flying in a neat arc over the railing and down six or so storeys within the very narrow space in the centre of the stairwell, exploding on the concrete floor at the bottom.
I’m not sure any case on earth could have saved it, but it might have held the pieces together at least and saved us the hassle of trying to scoop up hundreds of sand grain sized fragments of glass.
Hmm, my story does not involve a mobile phone, but a cordless one.
When I moved into a new apartment after returning to Ireland from being overseas, I got the internet connected, one of the full packages which included an Internet phone line and number. For this (as now) there was a standard telephone jack at the back of the modem, and you just needed to connect a handset.
I was at my Dad’s one evening, and realised the time. I told him I needed to leave so I could get to the shop and buy a handset. ‘Oh,’ says he. ‘I have a spare one I am not using if you want it.’
Naturally wanting to save money, I agree, and out he comes with a cordless unit, the charging base, and power supply. Gifting them into my bare hands, he says ‘it fell out of my pocket while I was in the loo and fell into the toilet. It did not work at first, so I got a new one, but once it dried out it worked fine.’
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Ehm…
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Eww!
So my dad just gave me a phone that had been immersed in his pee and merely dried out. Lovely. I am definitely putting my sweet lips closer to that phone – NOT!
Needless to say, WIII recycling got a new donation at my next opportunity, and I was really thankful I always have a pack of baby wipes and hand sanitiser in the car!
It’s WEEE recycling! LOL
Much more appropriate, too :-)
In NY state a few years ago I ropped my phone into the engine compartment while roadside assistance was on the line.
All I could hear was “Sir?”, “Sir?”
I yelled “have a look while you’re down there”.
They sent a tow truck.
I once text my boss “I’ll need to take Tuesday off as my cûnt has passed away”.
I know one of mine whey that would not really be a typo :-)
Easily done, Bertie, easily done..
“I’m just glad you weren’t in charge of the headstone”
https://youtu.be/f1nHVU1Qe4I
I rang myself from my own phone after hopping out of taxi thinking I’d lost it…it was engaged and I could not comprehend what was happening! Twas a good night so it was.
My ex used to work at one of those helpline call centres for a phone company and one day, Tricky called up and said his phone had fallen into a deep fat fryer. She kept him on the line as long as she could, just to hear him talk.
Brilliant :)
I break phone screens on a biannual basis. While cycling one dropped out of my pocked and smashed, I’ve stood out of a car with the phone on my lap, drop-kicked it across the wet road into a puddle agaist the opposite kerb, smashed. I’ve twice popped it out of my pocked onto the floor as I’ve taken my pants down getting onto the jacks (has this happened to no one else??), hearing that dreaded yet sort of beautiful short tssst of the screen smashing. Once, about a week after getting it fixed. And yes, I use a case, and they help, but not always. The angles a phone can catch on a tiled floor are magical.
I was in the middle of doing the bold thing with an otherwise lovely fella many years ago, when his phone went off beside the bed. Thinking he would switch it off, he went to grab the phone. Instead, he answers the thing: “Hello? Pete?” he shouts.
Pete starts talking away to him, because why would you think your mate would be deep in, err, flagrante if he answers a call. The fella cuts across him and says: ” Ok man, I can’t talk now, I’m just f’ing missred”
Pete naturally says “uhh, what?”, because again, that is the last thing he expects to hear. The fella repeats “I’m f’ing missred!” He hangs up the phone and is sort of like, where were we…
Were you engaged?
No, we did go out for nearly a year though.
Too late to edit, but meant to add he shouted in the phone at Dom Joly levels of volume
That was supposed to be a subtle telecoms-related joke.
When you’re explaing, you’re losing….I know.
*explaining
I enjoyed this story miss
my mishap involved a story I can’t bring myself to tell… just send a cover..;)
No mishaps with phones of particular note just the usual dropping, sitting on and general mishaps when intoxicated. but i have a couple of nice stories of finding phones.
in 1987 i was working in a bar in london during the summer. The bar is beside the river just across London bridge so all the financial lads would come across for pints at lunchtime, Any way after one particularly busy lunctime session i was out clearing up glasses when i spotted a car battery under one of the benches, on inspection it turned out to be a phone. i pick it up and am looking at it when i hear “oh thank Jaysus you found it”, Turn around and theres a irish lad in a suit red faced and panting who had got back to over to Cannon street and sat at his desk and realised his company ‘Mobile’ phone was missing. he couldnt have been more grateful and showed me how it worked and let me make a call to try it out (reception was terrible)
then second story was when i was in Paris a few years ago with Mrs Joxer and junior Joxers doing all the sites. After being over at the eifell tower we went across the river and sat down in a grassy area to have sambos etc – there were loads of orientals getting wedding photos taken. as i sit down i notice an Iphone in the grass and fire it up. its locked so i says to Mrs Joxer “if you see any coppers let me know and i will hand over, else will drop it into a cop shop”. We chow down and after a few minutes Joxer junior says – whilst looking at a chinese couple in gown and suit frantically charging about the place with their heads down scanning the area – “i think you have their phone”. Call them over and show them then phone and yer wan breaks down crying and hugs everyone and takes our picture. Turns out they were let down by their photographer so the only photos they had were on her phone.
Can’t remember any major mishaps (luckily) with my phone in all the time I’ve had one. But in saying that, now that I have commented on this, one is coming. So please send voucher, I’ll need it, to avert the impending tele-doom!!