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Old 02-15-2009, 08:51 PM   #1
bofeity
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Default My Terrible Story and 8900 Defects

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I am now on my 4th defective 8900 since my first one on the 11th last week.

Here is the list of problems:

1) First phone was great except pixel issue on camera viewer (not dead pixel, but rendering error, which would also leave the 2 specks on images as well).

2) Very bad pixel ripple effect when pressing the END KEY (not screen!)

3) Camera lens was scratched (apparently, the coating on the lens was coming off)

4) The end key was placed incorrectly on the keyboard. It was angled down into the keypad at the top and thus was at an angle not level with the other keys... very strange. The store rep said, "wow what happened here?" It still worked but made it look damaged and very much 'broke' (keeping in mind resale value later down the road).

The last 3 were from production date: 060209. The first 1 was 160109.

I am going to wait until the stores get a new batch and then try again hopefully with a better outcome.

Conclusions:
-All of the phones (mine and display models) have a slight (usually not noticeable unless you try hard) ripple effect when pressing the end key.
-Perhaps the 060209 batch (line 22) were bad?
-All of the phones also appear have a slightly wobbly keyboard (some less than others).
-We all know about the vibrate (which could possibly be fixed with an OS update)
-Of course, the battery door.
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