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1358728	2013-11-05 05:04:00	Also, they're required to have it repaired or replaced "Within a reasonable timeframe". That's always a open question as well ;) For a reasonable time you need a reasonable person. Had one repair the other week, the PC was inspected on a Wednesday, couldn't get hold of the owner till 2pm on Thursday with a cost, the order for a new board for a all in one, was put through the same day with the supplier, they were advised it would take 7-10 WORKING days to arrive from overseas. To get the part from HP in NZ it would take 3-4 weeks and cost about 3x as much, this was well out of warranty and second hand as well. I get a call on the Tuesday asking if it was fixed and ready to be picked up ? Errrrr NO, its only been 2 working days. some peoples idea of reasonable is "I want it now" ;) Speaking once to Consumer 3-4 weeks is a reasonable time.	wainuitech (129)
1358729	2013-11-05 20:45:00	[QUOTE= Your sluggishness is likely due to the lack of trim support in any Andriod pre v4.3[/QUOTE] I have such a phone so am curious what you mean by "lack of trim support"?	Strommer (42)
1358730	2013-11-05 20:49:00	You did say under. For that sort of money you should look at the lumia 520 from nokia. Wp8 not android. Solid and boring phone, that runs rings around any sub $300 android phone I have used. Pricespy has the Lumia 520 for $193 including shipping. Great price for a dual core with 5mp camera with 720p@30fps video. Decent overall reviews as well (www.gsmarena.com). Don't know about Win8 though (compared to Android).	Strommer (42)
1358731	2013-11-05 22:33:00	I have such a phone so am curious what you mean by "lack of trim support"? From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org): A Trim command allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally. Because low-level operation of SSDs differs significantly from hard drives, the typical way in which operating systems handle operations like deletes and formats resulted in unanticipated progressive performance degradation of write operations on SSDs. Trimming enables the SSD to handle garbage collection overhead, which would otherwise significantly slow down future write operations to the involved blocks. To put it extremely simply: a traditional hard drive can overwrite data (one operation), but an SSD needs to delete the currently written data in a block before it can write to it (2+ operations). When an SSD is new, write speed is fast because it's empty; once it's been used a while and has had data written across the entire drive, any write operation will be massively slower. Trim resolves this by removing deleted data from the disk after the delete operation (remember, a delete command only removes the reference to the data not the data itself), rather than waiting for an overwrite.	Antmannz (6583)
1358732	2013-11-05 23:20:00	Pricespy has the Lumia 520 for $193 including shipping. Great price for a dual core with 5mp camera with 720p@30fps video. Decent overall reviews as well (www.gsmarena.com). Don't know about Win8 though (compared to Android). Phone is fine, got the mrs one to replace her 710. You get use to it, obviously you can't customise as much but that's probably why the low end win phones are better then android	plod (107)
1358733	2013-11-06 07:45:00	Step son has a HTC Desire v with dual sim.He bought it sp that he could ditch the iPhone his work gave him. I'm quite impressed with it and they can be had for $279 on Mobicity	gary67 (56)
1358734	2013-11-07 09:10:00	Step son has a HTC Desire v with dual sim.He bought it sp that he could ditch the iPhone his work gave him. I'm quite impressed with it and they can be had for $279 on Mobicity Reviews here (www.gsmarena.com)are not positive, e.g. "It is better to use landline rather than this worst piece of technology. / This is a piece of CRAP... / Very Bad handset. I have 5 repairs of this device in warranty period." Consumer NZ rates HTC and Motorola BELOW AVERAGE. Samsung is ABOVE AVERAGE.	Strommer (42)
1358735	2013-11-07 09:27:00	Reviews here (www.gsmarena.com)are not positive, e.g. "It is better to use landline rather than this worst piece of technology. / This is a piece of CRAP... / Very Bad handset. I have 5 repairs of this device in warranty period." Consumer NZ rates HTC and Motorola BELOW AVERAGE. Samsung is ABOVE AVERAGE.have to agree with those reviews, still recommend if you spending under $300 mark then android is not for you.	plod (107)
1358736	2013-11-07 17:40:00	Reviews here (www.gsmarena.com)are not positive, e.g. "It is better to use landline rather than this worst piece of technology. / This is a piece of CRAP... / Very Bad handset. I have 5 repairs of this device in warranty period." Consumer NZ rates HTC and Motorola BELOW AVERAGE. Samsung is ABOVE AVERAGE. Well so far I have to disagree with that review, having had a play with his phone which he uses on a daily basis on and around building sites. It's working flawlessly and has been ever since he bought it. HTC are the only company so far to come out and say they have already sorted out upgrading their phones to Android KitKat	gary67 (56)
1358737	2013-11-07 21:37:00	Well so far I have to disagree with that review, having had a play with his phone which he uses on a daily basis on and around building sites. It's working flawlessly and has been ever since he bought it. HTC are the only company so far to come out and say they have already sorted out upgrading their phones to Android KitKatand that's the great thing about low expectations, easily met. Turned off htc for good since their crippled a phone at release	plod (107)
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