My Phone: broken or just playing a trick on me?

So sometime last winter I did something (I have no clue what) that upset the cell phone gods and have sense been cursed with "my-phone-breaks-all-the-time-itis". It's true. Last winter my beauty of a camera phone decided it was time to give up the ghost and died... it was a very sad day.

Then my friend Sam graciously let me borrow his old phone... which also died on me a short time later.

Then my brother Mark mailed me his old phone (conveniently the same model Sam had) which served me well until I moved out to Manhattan and then died... cutting me off from all contact with the out side world.

So I bought a new (used) phone on ebay. I didn't even have time to learn how to turn up the volume on the ear piece before it too went the way of the Buffalo. This has all happened to me in the course of 3 months now. So My good friend Melissa mails me her old phone. It works great until it dies.

Then my mom mails me my Dad's old phone... side note: my family got a 4 phone family plan, but my Dad never learned how to turn his phone on, so it sat on the shelf for over a year. And that's the phone I've been rocking for the last 5+ months. It's served me well. And I'd be lying if I said I hadn't considered passing it on to one of my sons when they were of age... but that's never going to happen now because on Sunday it died too. Not fully dead. More like it's dying of old age, so for now it's just crippled and almost useless... It works great as an alarm clock, and the screen is bright as ever... but for me to be able to hear anything I have to hold the flip portion of the phone at a very certain acute angle (see picture). So just like an old grandpa that can't hear too good, I have to ask people to repeat stuff a lot, and shout loudly to be heard myself. Soon it will start forgetting peoples names and be a danger on the roads.

*** Update***

The sceen on my phone is no shattered, but I can still recieve calls!