On 7 October 2012 18:22, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Do phones have any worth-while warranty? The three main sources of phone problems are smashed screens, loss, and theft. The sale warranty won't cover the last two and seems unlikely to cover the first one.
My brother's phone (a Galaxy Nexus) suddenly and for no explainable reason lost all 3G reception. Everything else worked fine. We proved it wasn't a fault with the SIM and standard techniques like rebooting failed to help. It had to be sent in for warranty repairs to get fixed. In the past I have purchased phones with known design defects (e.g. badly mounted USB socket on Nokia N900 that can fail, badly mounted on/off switch on the Nexus One that causes the ribbon cable to break after a while). -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>