My Smart Phone Woe's

In the last three days my HTC Sensation that I've had for years now just decided it wants to not turn on any more. When I first got this phone it was fantastic, fast and sleek, very durable. About a month or so ago the power button stopped working, thanks to a little ingenuity and encouragement from my wife I found some apps that could circumvent that problem and it has really been not too bad to use, a little annoying but manageable. But now that I find that I can't even get my phone to turn on until the afternoon, I'm at a loss at what to do. Is it a battery problem or hardware, software? Not even sure.

So do I limp along till Oct. and search for a good deal, or do I get a new phone now and get going with something new. Of course the fiscally smart thing to do is wait, but every bone in my body wants to get a new phone and stop dealing with degenerating technology that will slowly die out.

At the same time, getting a new phone now would be nice and there are some good options, but if I wait I could get a newer phone for the same amount of money, but isn't that always the case? With the advent of these every six month technology release it seems we're always behind the curve when we buy devices, and with these new upgrade every six month plans from the providers that could be worth it, but is it really? Not sure. I seems that they just want to gouge their customers for every penny, whatever happened to treating your costumers like they matter, it seems these days that these large phone companies only care about the bottom line.

Being the tech geek that I am I do long for a new phone and look  forward to that switch, just not looking forward to the buyers remorse afterward.