G-Man wrote:
MikeM wrote:
G-Man wrote:
the battery life is shocking, my brother's manages about a day tops.
...usually ended up only lasting a day after my use.. And that's not that much really.
Yeah, but that's where my e71 shines. I'm glued to my phone all day with calls/internet/email etc and I get 2 - 3 days out of it. (My phone bill is scary, but it's for company use luckily...)
Another thing is service. I'll admit that my e71 did give me some big problems after about 18 months - it just died. When I tried to switch it on after missing my wake up alarm in the morning (doh) it just made a high pitched whine and then died. Long story short I waited a week and a half and Nokia replaced it with a brand new phone. My brother's Blackberry with the dead track-ball has been away for nearly a month and a half.
This is the problem with people in General, HTC was so kak a few years back and so they think HTC is useless now, This is definately not the case.
All the Nokia's that my wife and I have had, have not lasted 2 years, So obviously I would be a bit more put off by Nokia.
most people I know cringed when I got the Samsung Omnia saying it wouldn't last 6 months, but yet I have passed it on to my son and it's still working 100%.
Take motor cars for instance, you buy an Opel, have a bad experience, you most probably wont buy another one again!
It's the same with Cell Phones, and South Africa has this wrong impression that Nokia is the ONLY phone, yet the N8 has had worldwide recalls, The disastrous N range, N95 etc spent a lot of time in repair shops! On the other hand they have some brilliant models e.g. E71.
The chances are that it is possible to get a BAD phone whatever the make and model
