What the **** is up with cell phones?

[alan0269]

My cell phone that I have loved up until about a week ago is going to drive me nuts!!! It's worked great since I got it, but now that I'm almost ready for an upgrade, the darn thing has been shutting down on its own - sometimes it comes back on by itself, and others I have to turn it back on, and then today my email stopped working - that only took two hours and a total reset/erasure of the phone to get corrected. My wife's phone is also starting to act up, although it's been a little tempermental for a while. It's almost like there is some kind of "upgrade" for the phones that you automatically get when you're closing in on an upgrade date that makes your phone act up so you want to spend money on a new one.

[Mtn.man]

Uh haven't you heard about the governmet intervention???

[jscwerve]

Is it a blackberry? I've had many, great until they pull that. Then there's nothing to do but get a new one. Sometimes 6 months, sometimes a year and a half.

[alan0269]

Is it a blackberry? I've had many, great until they pull that. Then there's nothing to do but get a new one. Sometimes 6 months, sometimes a year and a half.

Nope, a DroidX. I'm looking forward to spending another couple hundred and renewing my contract for another two years when I have to replace it, and I'm really starting to miss the days of a cell phone being a phone and nothing else.

[Beprepared]

Yep government.

[strm_trpr]

My iphone has been acting up lately, no service where there used to be service and when i have service it is slow.....

[Bailey Guns]

...and I'm really starting to miss the days of a cell phone being a phone and nothing else.

Exactly! I have a Samsung something-or-other. Nice, mid-sized flip phone. It does have a decent camera. Other than that it's got capabilities that I just don't care about. I just want a damn phone.

I had a Droid and hated it.

[jscwerve]

Exactly! I have a Samsung something-or-other. Nice, mid-sized flip phone. It does have a decent camera. Other than that it's got capabilities that I just don't care about. I just want a damn phone.

I had a Droid and hated it.

The reason most folks have a problem with the droids is because the carriers put on so much bloatwear that it causes the phones to work like crap. My advice to anyone with a Droid is to root the phone, and find a rom that you like. The phone performance is pretty amazing after that.

[blacklabel]

Nope, a DroidX. I'm looking forward to spending another couple hundred and renewing my contract for another two years when I have to replace it, and I'm really starting to miss the days of a cell phone being a phone and nothing else.

I've got a Droid X now and I'm just waiting for it to start pulling that crap. I'm going to have to think long and hard about staying with a smartphone or getting a feature phone for the decreased complication and cost.

I do love my phone though.

[Zundfolge]

It's almost like there is some kind of "upgrade" for the phones that you automatically get when you're closing in on an upgrade date that makes your phone act up so you want to spend money on a new one.

Its called Planned Obsolescence.

I used to work with a guy that was a CAD designer. Many years ago he worked for a company that manufactured railroad train cars. One of his major projects was to do computer design studies and testing on the design of their heavy flatbed cars so design them to where they would fall apart at a specific mileage. The warranty ended 500 miles before this specific mileage point.

Thing is their customers knew the train cars were designed this way (they didn't care because it got the cost down ... and I guess in the railroad industry its all about $X per mile for Y miles and they scrap the cars at Y miles regardless of condition anyway ... probably due to government safety rules).

I expect this happens in a lot more industries.