Succeed Silently, Fail Loudly

I bought a Blackberry Curve 8310 about a year and a half ago, when I was preparing for a trip out west. I wanted email, web access and GPS turn-by-turn driving navigation in a single device. At the time, the Curve seemed like the best option.

When everything works, it's great. But the way it's handling those times when it fails is unforgivable.

1. Sometimes while using the GPS navigation, I've made a turn off the routed course (mostly on purpose). However, on several occasions the device continued to project my directions along the previous route because it had lost the GPS signal a while ago without notifying me.
2. While on the road, I received an important email and replied to it right away. However, the other party never received my response, despite the fact that my Curve reported success. I was able to check the server logs, and confirm that the Blackberry had failed silently, and never actually sent my email.
3. I recently wanted to add an email account to the phone, so I correctly entered my new email address, password, etc, into the device. It reported "configuration successful!". It's been two days and I have not received a single email on the device yet (despite dozens to the account). It's clearly not working, but it's not reporting the problem.

What frustrates me the most is that in all these cases it's failing silently. Which is exact opposite of what technology should do. It's absolutely to acceptable to succeed silently, but technology should always fail loudly. When something doesn't work, it should 1.) Tell me something happened, and 2.) Tell me what I should do.

The consumer experience result? I don't trust the phone anymore. I've been using a third party email application that clearly verifies emails sent and received, and printing out driving directions again.

And looking for a new phone.