At 23 Nov 2006 20:25:45 -0800 RMZ wrote:
> I'm a big supporter of the Windows Mobile 5 platform and I've had only
> nice things to say about HTC products up until this point, but today a
> dropped my Cingular 2125 about four feet from my hand to the kitchen
> floor (tile) and while all the features of the phone work fine, the
> mini-USB port stopped working, the phone no longer syncs with
> ActiveSync, making it generally useless beyond its basic phone
> functions

To be fair to the product, you may have just been unlucky- I've dropped
my Dell PDAs several times, for example, sometimes from 4 feet- once,
however, a two-foot fall to a carpeted destroyed the display. That was
the "unlucky" drop. You might have been able to drop the SDA a dozen
times from that height, but whatever corner/side it landed on with that
particular fall trashed the USB port.


> So if you purchase a 2125, 8125, 3125 (these are the HTC
> SmartPhones/Pocket PCs) I highly recommend warranty replacement
> coverage, or avoiding these phones altogether. If a product breaks on a
> four foot fall, they are essentially more fragile as glass.

I don't indend to drop my T-Mo MDA again to prove or disprove your
theory, but I certainly wouldn't put money on it's odds to survive a 4
foot drop! It's survived at least one three foot drop to a hardwood
floor that took a solid year off of my life, and I considered myself VERY
lucky!

> Sure, I was responsible for droping it and had it suffered a few
> impacts I'd feel a bit different, but to me for the product to break on
> a single impact this easily, I would say it doesn't meet the quality
> standards I would have expected, if you feel the same way I would avoid
> HTC products.

In favor of what? Other than maybe my bottom-of-the-line Nokia candy-bars,
what phones would you reasonably expect to survive a 4-foot drop?

BTW, does the mini-USB port still charge the phone? If so, use a BT
dongle and sync via BT. For reasons unrelated to a drop (just an issue I
haven't had time to solve), I haven't been able to sync my MDA via USB
for over a month, but synching via IR and BT still work fine.



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