What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
What are the worst tech purchases you or your family have ever made?
I watched a video recently and wanted to know what other have bought over the years.
I bought an HMD skyline phone based on the fact that it was a user serviceable device. I’d like to support that kind of thing so I took a gamble on a “goofy” phone. Best buy’s website had a sale on them and I went for it. When it showed up it came out of the box with a dead USB port. It may be user serviceable but I don’t want to user service it right out of the damn box so I took it back to a best buy store to try and get it replaced. They had never heard of it and wouldn’t touch it. Turns out just because it came from best buy’s website doesn’t mean it came from best buy? I guess? Best they could do for me was to tell me to contact HMD, and the best HMD could do was have me ship it to somebody to get it repaired. This took weeks and when it came back the cameras weren’t aligned properly anymore. I kinda gave up on it after that and bought a used Pixel from eBay. I jammed GrapheneOS onto it and never looked back. I’ll never buy from best buy or HMD again.
I had the Nokia 8.3 5G from HMD, which was a really pretty phone with a killer camera, but the charging port stopped charging on that one! I wonder if they’ve got some kind of chronic board problem?
Nobody wanted that model for sale and there were no custom ROMs which was a huge bummer.
No surprise they’re kinda fading. I wish your user serviceable one worked out, because we really need one of those projects to take off.
I like my Motorola now. I hear Graphene might be porting to these, and they have SD card slots and headphone jacks. Also you can pretty-please get them to unlock the bootloader.