Keep the e-mail she sent so you can show the police, and turn her in for theft. Don’t let her get away with this “assholishness” (a.k.a. theivery). I agree with Dan Norder when she hung up the phone on you, her actions became theft.
I’ve come around to agree, and I reported it to the police. I still had to shell out for a new phone (which cost me just as much as a year’s worth of insurance plus deductible anyway–Cingular’s insurance SUCKS). If calls show up on my bill, I’m going to try to figure out who she is and turn her in. They’ll be free, my cell company has told me.
My phone does not have a GPS, and unless Stupid Bitch has a Motorola charger lying around, the thing’s now a paperweight. I’m sure she could sell it, but she sounded like a teenager, so I doubt she’s all savvy about the stolen phone black market. She probably just thought she could get something for free and didn’t feel like going out of her way for me.
Yes, she is a thief. The moment she decided not to help me, she became one. I’m a little less mopey today, a little more rational. 
I still think it’s appropriate to Pit her for not helping me. That just happens to equal her being a thief. Thievery+assholishness, sure, she can be both, and she’s a skanky ho, too, and her mother gave her cousin syphillis.
I’m just glad I get a new phone soon…not having one is killing me!
Audry, I never said the OP was stupid. In fact I think she’s far from it. Naive? maybe. Believes that people are inherently good? Maybe.
Not stupid though.
Sam
I can’t speak for all US phones, but the parent was incorrect. At least some do have SIM cards (if any don’t, I’d imagine it’s only some of the ultra-cheapies).
Whether you can switch companies and keep the same phone depends on the company and the phone. Service providers are well-known to try and make it difficult to do this–I don’t know whether there is a law stating they technically have to allow it or not, but most people that try it get nothing but grief.
An oft-noted exception (and it contributed to me going with them for my service) is T-Mobile. This may be because they’re more used to the practice, with their origins in Europe.
T-mobile used phones with SIM cards.
Unless things have changed in the past couple of months or so, it’s nearly impossible to change a basic phone to work on a different service - they’re hard-coded in their internal ROM to work only on one carrier. This may be entirely different for the new tri-band, quad-band or GSM phones, but these are relative newcomers to the US market. T-Mobile phones do have SIM cards, but that’s useless if you want to change to Cingular and find that Cingular doesn’t support SIM cards.
Our still-so-new-that-they-smell-funny Verizon phones don’t have any means of changing chips, and the model number on them Googles up as Verizon-only.
The latest wrinkle in cell phones is number portability. You can take your number to a different provider, but you will need a new phone.