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"Bendgate" just lost some of it's promotional value for Samsung. The Galaxy S4 not only bends but the screen breaks as well.
1 posted on 09/26/2014 1:35:24 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
Gaddamn iPhone 6. I just had to do my first support call on one tonight. I felt like telling the user to drop it in the pool. Now I'm Samsung certified (lotta hardware training we got THERE *ahem*ahem*), and I have no clue what the hell to do with them. Besides buying an analog Ma Bell phone and be happy with it. I'd like to take The Internet Of Things and send it all back to Hell.

God, I love my job.

2 posted on 09/26/2014 1:54:12 AM PDT by Viking2002
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To: RegulatorCountry
Have never had the urge to bend a cellphone,in twenty five years of using them, this need further analysis....
4 posted on 09/26/2014 2:06:45 AM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. Barry is counter revolutionary ,Denounce him!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah but unlike the iPhone , if you put a Samsung in a microwave...

Ha ha ha


14 posted on 09/26/2014 2:28:25 AM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Rushing out to post this reminds me of the “no antenna” problem stories around the iPhone.....until Apple admitted the antenna problem.

Cults are like this. Some Apple fans remind me of the rioters in Ferguson.....damn the facts!


18 posted on 09/26/2014 3:31:02 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: RegulatorCountry

Been carrying my s4 in my pocket since the day I got it. Still straight as an arrow.

I do not, however, put it in my back pocket. That makes no sense at all and anyone that does is asking for a bent/broken phone.


20 posted on 09/26/2014 3:57:10 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

You guys cant be serious?

The lenghts you have to go to try to cover for Apple isnt going to sweep this under the rug.

It’s the same as the left covering for Obama’s styrofoam cup salute by digging up a photo of Bush.


21 posted on 09/26/2014 4:06:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: RegulatorCountry
The real question is, will it blend?
26 posted on 09/26/2014 4:16:45 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Who the hell spends 3 or 4 hundred dollars for an electronic device and then tries to fold it up?

The stupid things are made of thin aluminum sheet metal and plastic. Of COURSE they’ll bend if you TRY to bend them.


29 posted on 09/26/2014 4:39:06 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
I just don't get it. I'm completely uninterested in this gadget fascination... and I've been in IT for 20 years, a network engineer for almost 15. I refuse to spend more on a stinking phone than I did on my home PC's. the only reason I have a smartphone is because work requires me to monitor messaging 24/7 and they pay for it. I'd huck this thing off an overpass if I could get by with it, but another would just return like an old stray cat you can't get rid of.

My personal cell phone is just that, it's only a phone. It's for convenience in case I get lost or other emergencies. I don't want mobile entertainment, I'd rather do that at home with my family and in small, metered doses. There's way more to life than staring at a stinking 5" screen all hours of the day... or ANY media for that matter.

... and I'm pretty much convinced that a smartphone user texting while driving is going to be the one that eventually kills me on the road. I'm so sick of it

31 posted on 09/26/2014 4:51:53 AM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: RegulatorCountry

New cellphone problem

iPhone ‘Wave’ hoax claims users can microwave phones, tablets to charge them
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/iphone-wave-hoax-claims-devices-charged-microwave-article-1.1950755


35 posted on 09/26/2014 5:11:13 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Otterbox futures are up!


36 posted on 09/26/2014 5:12:20 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Flexible, very flexible!


46 posted on 09/26/2014 5:32:05 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’m always impressed when I see people using phones with no protective casing... I drop phones all the time. An otterbox saved my phone from water damage after I threw my old iphone 4 into a lake, and even though I now use sleeker cases on my iphone 5, the spigen screen protector has saved the glass. Last week my best friend finally traded up from a flip phone to a new Galaxy... you bet I talked him into investing in a case.


53 posted on 09/26/2014 5:49:28 AM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: RegulatorCountry

So, what this proves is that the iPhone is just as crappy as all the others out there.

Why pay more for the same thing you can get cheaper elsewhere?


55 posted on 09/26/2014 6:38:26 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: RegulatorCountry

Nokia Lumia 1520 is bigger than the iPhone 6 Plus and it doesn’t bend.


56 posted on 09/26/2014 6:42:46 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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To: RegulatorCountry

Bendgate has left Apple customers bent out of shape.


63 posted on 09/26/2014 1:31:54 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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