{"id":103,"date":"2009-11-04T01:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2010-12-18T23:35:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T22:35:19","slug":"crap-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/crap-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap Phone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ive recently had the chance to upgrade my phone and have been eagerly awaiting the Blackberry Storm 2 and got it the day after its release<\/p>\n<p>New devices can always have problems but I didnt expect this. Ive now had 3 storm 2&#8217;s in a matter of 8 days and all 3 have had problems<\/p>\n<p>Phone 1: Calls cut off after about 30 seconds, screen went black for 2 or 3 seconds<br \/>\nPhone 2: Calls were fine but screen would lock up for around a minute with no key working &#8211; not even the power, and the battery seemed to drain really fast (full charge depleted within 24 hours)<br \/>\nPhone 3: Calls are fine and no 1 minute lock ups and seemingly an ok battery but &#8220;sticky&#8221; and &#8220;unresponsive&#8221; screen near the top. Assume one of the 4 sensors are intermittently faulty.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m being tied into an 18 month contract, where, within 12 months of that 18 month contract, Vodafone will have deprecated the phone and moved onto bigger and better things, I don&#8217;t intend to start a contract with a phone that has to be almost jabbed to get the screen to respond and the &#8220;click&#8221; happens about a second after its responded.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m considering the iPhone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ive recently had the chance to upgrade my phone and have been eagerly awaiting the Blackberry Storm 2 and got it the day after its release New devices can always have problems but I didnt expect this. Ive now had 3 storm 2&#8217;s in a matter of 8 days and all 3 have had problems [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-business-services","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}