The Cellar - View Single Post - Sycamore's new playtoy: Motorola T720 wireless phone

elSicomoro · 03-28-2003, 05:27 PM

The newer flip phones are much better designed, IMO than the old ones. For example, we used to get a shitload of insurance claims on Nextel I1000 and I1000plus phones, b/c the flip hinges would finally wear out and break. At one point, we denied any claims of that nature, considering it "wear and tear." Apparently, so many people were bitching to Nextel and Motorola (and to us), that our policy was changed to include such incidents, and the I1000plus was redesigned.

My phone is pretty sturdy, IMO. I'm not sure if it getting rain drops on it Wednesday night did it, or if something came loose, or what. All I know is that he looked at it for no more than a minute, asked me when I got it (mid-December), then said he would replace the phone. Given how fast all this happened, I hope this isn't some general flaw that is befalling these phones. If so, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Motorola are in a shitload of trouble...IIRC, it was the biggest selling phone in 2002 (thanks to the deep discount on it).

03-28-2003, 05:27 PM	#5
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	The newer flip phones are much better designed, IMO than the old ones. For example, we used to get a shitload of insurance claims on Nextel I1000 and I1000plus phones, b/c the flip hinges would finally wear out and break. At one point, we denied any claims of that nature, considering it "wear and tear." Apparently, so many people were bitching to Nextel and Motorola (and to us), that our policy was changed to include such incidents, and the I1000plus was redesigned. My phone is pretty sturdy, IMO. I'm not sure if it getting rain drops on it Wednesday night did it, or if something came loose, or what. All I know is that he looked at it for no more than a minute, asked me when I got it (mid-December), then said he would replace the phone. Given how fast all this happened, I hope this isn't some general flaw that is befalling these phones. If so, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Motorola are in a shitload of trouble...IIRC, it was the biggest selling phone in 2002 (thanks to the deep discount on it).