My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Pennsylvania.
In early February I was driving home from my friends house in Philadelphia using one of the highways. While driving I felt my phone vibrate and out of habit I picked it up and unlocked it to see why it had vibrated. I was looking at it for 1 second at a time while I put in the 4 digits to unlock my phone (So a total of 4 seconds during a 10-15 second period; I was looking at the road when I was not typing in my password). I was then pulled over. The Philadelphia Police Officer who stopped me came to the window and told me that I had been pulled over for use of a handheld device while driving, which at the time was illegal only in Philadelphia. However, when the Officer came back and gave me my ticket, he had given me a "Reckless Driving" ticket for $298 instead of the normal $75 "Use of a handheld device while driving" ticket.
I was not speeding, swerving between lanes, or doing anything else that would have warrented a citation other than looking at my phone for that brief period. Is there anything I can do to avoid the reckless driving charge which will come with 3 points on my license? I would not have any problems paying the $75 ticket since I know I was not supposed to be using it while driving in Philadelphia but I am concerned with the points and, what I consider obsurd, $300 ticket.
I have proof from a printout of my cell phone usage that I was not making any phone calls or sending any text messages for 10 mintues prior to my ticket and 20 minutes after I got it.
Is there anything that I can contest in this situation? Thanks in advance for any information!
In Addition:
I do not know if this means anything or can be useful fighting this but the date for my traffic hearing that the officer put down on the ticket was incorrect. The date he wrote down was for a Saturday, and the courthouse is not open on Saturdays. If I had not gotten online to check the courtroom I needed to go to, I would have shown up on the wrong day for my appearance.

