iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry [telecom]

Cute. But it took FF to let me see it -- the Opera (v. 10.63) I use as newsreader just couldn't render the page beyond a space-shot of the planet Earth :-{ .

Cheers, -- tlvp

Where are the drawings of the look on their faces once they have smashed the faceplates of their respective devices?

The amount of "smartphones" I see these days that have been stepped on (or just dropped) is growing and they don't look so "smart" when full of cracks.

-- Regards, David.

David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.

In the 2 years I have had my Palm 755p I have never dropped it, yet if I do I bought a bumper that goes around the edge of the phone.

Not even a Motorola SLVR (aka L2) looks too great with a crazed glass cover over its display screen. And, in these benighted states, nobody repairs such devices -- instead, Motorola offers to replace the entire handset with a refurb, for the price of a new handset.

I found salvation in a third-world country -- in Guatemala, every village market has a cell-phone specialist or five who'll remove the faceplate from an L2, scrape out the crazed glass cover (along with all errant slivers of glass), glue in a fresh glass cover, and reassemble it all, for the princely sum of ... the local equivalent of about six bucks :-) .

Cracked smartphones probably cost just a buck or two more than that to fix (more glass).

Cheers, -- tlvp

-- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP

Well, how about setting up a cottage industry. You get the guys in Guatemala, and charge 50% of the "repair" price people pay up here: you'll be rolling in dough.

Bill Horne Moderator

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:56:52 -0500, after tlvp wrote, Moderator Noted:

Heh ... shipping there and back can be too flaky, costly, and time-consuming to make that a viable venture. As it happened, I was just going to be there anyway, hence took the handset along with me on spec ... and lucked out. Shoulda' bought a spare battery while I was at it ... :-) .

Cheers, -- tlvp

-- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP