Belkin must be the worst for selling products that simply do not work. *Every* Belkin product I have ever bought has crashed all the time or failed to work like any other product in its range. I will never buy another Belkin product again. What is strange about Belkin is that some of their products come with a lifetime guarantee. I found out this this 'lifetime guarantee' was useless as all they would do is keep sending me one broken unit after another! A lifetime supply of broken units from over whelmed customer service.
I think there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. For instance I keep hearing that Google only collected a small amount of traffic on publicly announced SSID's. My first thought was that Google simply captured enough traffic to locate and list SSID's. My second thought was they had a 'collect now, analyse later' policy. Maybe they were hoping to find something interesting? I think the German government wants to know or at least get a chance, by looking at the data, to find out. If google did find out something interesting that's worth money surely they could remove the interesting parts from the data they hand over. So the German government get the light weight and safe version of the data. If this scenario happens I hope some genius at the German government has a way to detect it and proves that Google did collect something worth hiding.
I am so pleased that someone has mentioned that Motorola phones are absolute crud. I got the RAZR V3 because it was really thin and it is COMFORTABLE to wear. As I take my phone everywhere comfort is important. This is where the goodness runs out.
The UI is useless I am contantly typing in numbers of people I meet and then not clicking the 'finish' button so I lose the number, its like a freaking bank transaction. When using SMS it crawls along so they take ages to compose, slowest t9 predict text ever. If I accidentally call someone the hang up button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds so it rings at least twice.
The most annoying thing is that is generally takes 0.5 - 1 second to respond to any input, like the lag from Australia or something.
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Belkin must be the worst for selling products that simply do not work. *Every* Belkin product I have ever bought has crashed all the time or failed to work like any other product in its range. I will never buy another Belkin product again. What is strange about Belkin is that some of their products come with a lifetime guarantee. I found out this this 'lifetime guarantee' was useless as all they would do is keep sending me one broken unit after another! A lifetime supply of broken units from over whelmed customer service.
I think there is a lot more to this story than meets the eye. For instance I keep hearing that Google only collected a small amount of traffic on publicly announced SSID's. My first thought was that Google simply captured enough traffic to locate and list SSID's. My second thought was they had a 'collect now, analyse later' policy. Maybe they were hoping to find something interesting? I think the German government wants to know or at least get a chance, by looking at the data, to find out. If google did find out something interesting that's worth money surely they could remove the interesting parts from the data they hand over. So the German government get the light weight and safe version of the data. If this scenario happens I hope some genius at the German government has a way to detect it and proves that Google did collect something worth hiding.
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I am so pleased that someone has mentioned that Motorola phones are absolute crud. I got the RAZR V3 because it was really thin and it is COMFORTABLE to wear. As I take my phone everywhere comfort is important. This is where the goodness runs out.
The UI is useless I am contantly typing in numbers of people I meet and then not clicking the 'finish' button so I lose the number, its like a freaking bank transaction. When using SMS it crawls along so they take ages to compose, slowest t9 predict text ever. If I accidentally call someone the hang up button becomes unresponsive for a few seconds so it rings at least twice.
The most annoying thing is that is generally takes 0.5 - 1 second to respond to any input, like the lag from Australia or something.
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