When Your Smartphone Dies...

We can experience such strange problems in this technological world. Yesterday, my new smartphone died. The day before, it was working just fine. The next day I tried to turn it on and nothing. I was pretty sure it was charged up, but thought it might be a random battery draining. When I got back to my room (currently on Gran Canaria, an island in the Canary Islands), I tried to charge it, but nothing. No response any which way. It was completely defunct.

My first thought was to take the battery out and put it back in. But I couldn't figure out how to do that since it's new to me and there was no obvious battery slot on the back. I'm not super duper dependent on my phone yet, but the next day I was changing to another hostel that looked tricky to find and it would be a heck of a lot easier with the phone.